Experienced Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Nanomaterials, Nanocomposites, X-ray crystallography, Materials Science, and Nanotechnology. Strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. An active researcher for last fifteen years and have a great passion for research. Since 2011, working as an independent researcher and established an Advanced Functional Materials (AFM) lab. Research work is mainly focused on the synthesis of nanomaterials (mainly carbides, nitrides, oxides, transition metal dichalcogenides) for gas sensing, electrochemical sensing, photodetectors, photovoltaic, photocatalytic, boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) applications.