Sindhunil Barman Roy

Name: Sindhunil Barman Roy

Area of Research: Condensed Matter Physics

Contact address:

91-33-2654-9999,

Ph. D. (1985): Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

M.Sc. (Physics)(1980): Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

B.Sc. (Physics Hons.)(1977): North Eastern Hill University, India

Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, (1985-1986)
Research Assistant at Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, UK (1986-1989)
Research Associate at University of Florida, Gainesville, USA , (1989-1990)
Research Associate at Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, UK (1990-1991)

Raja Ramanna Fellow (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India) at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, India, August 2020 onwards.
Emeritus Professor, UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, India, August 2018 – July 2020 .
Permanent staff member in Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, Indore, India July, 1992 – February 2018. Last position held: ‘Outstanding Scientist’.
Professor of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute. (2007-2013)
Senior Professor of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute. (2014-2018)
Director, Materials Science Group, RRCAT, Indore. (2017-2018)

Awarded a visiting fellowship from Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), UK for a collaborative research project at Imperial College, London, UK for a period of nine months in 2003.
Awarded a ‘Royal Society-British Council Joint Project’ with Imperial College on the study of ‘Magneto-structural phase transition in functional magnetic materials’ (2006-2009).

Guiding postgraduate students (Since becoming a faculty member in HBNI, India in 2007): 4 PhD (completed); 2 MTech (completed)
Course coordination and teaching of PhD level course to post MSc students.

Reviewer of scientific papers in Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics: D –Applied Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, New Journal of Physics, Solid State Communications, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Physica B, Physica Status Solidi, Physics Letters and Superconductor Science & Technology.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Superconductor Science & Technology, published by Institute of Physics, UK, 2008-2014.
Dean-Academic of Homi Bhabha National Institute at RRCAT, Indore, India, September 2009 – August 2015.
Member, Board of Studies (Physical Sciences), HBNI, 2015-2017.

Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award, DAE, Govt. of India (2006)
Group achievement award for ‘First development of 1.3 GHz Single Cell Superconducting RF cavity’, DAE, Govt. of India (2009)
Elected Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), UK (2014)
Distinguished Faculty Award, Homi Bhabha National Institute (2015)
Raja Ramanna Fellowship of DAE, Govt. Of India (2020)
Listed in Stanford University world rankings of top 2% scientists (2020,2021, 2022) (Published: 3 November 2022, Version 5, DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.5 Contributor: John P.A. Ioannidis)
(https://insights2techinfo.com/top-2-most-influential-scientists-career-impact-1960-2022-in-stanford-university-list-analysis-of-indian-researchers/)

In international peer reviewed journals: 225+
In international peer reviewed conference proceedings: 28 (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/35028536)
Books:
- Mott Insulators: Physics and Applications
  Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, 2019.
- Experimental Techniques in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Hydrogen: Physics and Technology (Commissioned by Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK; tentative date 2025)
Book Chapters:
- Handbook of Magnetic Materials: Ed. K. H. J. Buschow, Vol.22, 2014, Elsevier;
- Materials Under Extreme Conditions, Ed. A. K. Tyagi and S. Banerjee, 2017, Elsevier )

38 as per Web of Science (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/GYU-8318-2022)
41 as per Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wY9lCqcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=)
41 as per Research Gate

Method of qualifying niobium and/or other super conducting materials for reliable fabrication of superconducting radio frequency (SCRF) cavities (United States Patent 08673820, 2014); S B Roy and V C Sahni
Niobium based superconducting radio frequency(SCRF) cavities comprising niobium components joined by laser welding, method and apparatus for manufacturing such cavities; P. Khare, B. N. Upadahyay, S. B. Roy, C. K. Pithawa, V. C. Sahni, P. D. Gupta and P. Kush (Japan patent no. 5632924, 2014; United States Patent 9352416 B-2, 2016)