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Roopam Gaur

Roopam Gaur
Roopam Gaur
DST INSPIRE Faculty
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for Nanoscience
Email
roopamgaur[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, gaur.roopam[at]gmail[dot]com
Qualifications
  • Ph.D. (Physics-Materials Science) -2018, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
  • M.Sc. (Physics) - 2011, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
  • B.Sc. (Maths, Physics, Computer Science) - 2009, St. Francis Degree College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, A.P., India
Areas of Interest/Specialization

Developing multi-facetted ferroelectric and antiferroelectric perovskite materials (bulk/thin films) for environmental remediation applications like electrocaloric cooling, energy storage, energy harvesting, photo/piezocatalytic degradation of wastewater, etc.

Experience
  • Presently working as DST Inspire Faculty at the Special Centre for Nano Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  • DST Women Scientist A (Principal Investigator) at the Special Centre for Nano Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in a project titled “Synthesis of lead-free ferroelectric ceramics for energy harvesting and energy storage applications” by DST under the scheme WOS-A from 01-052023 to 10-06-2024.
  • Project Staff in a SERB project at the Special Centre for Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru University from 11-07-2022 to 10-10-2022.
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow under the fellowship scheme CSIR-RA at Special Centre for Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India from 20 May 2019 – 31 May 2022.
  • Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) in Kalindi College, University of Delhi Jan 2018 to May 2018.
  • Guest Lecturer at Jamia Milia Islamia University from Aug 2017 to Dec 2017.
  • Guest Lecturer at the University of Delhi from Jan 2016 to Dec 2017.
Awards & Honours
  • DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship (2024)
  • DST Women Scientist (WOS-A) Fellowship (2022)
  • CSIR-RA (2019)
  • International Travel Award by DST in 2015 to deliver Oral Presentation In Paris, France
  • GATE 2012 (AIR-261)
  • NET-LS Qualified (2011)
International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Improved energy-storage performance with superior thermal stability of [(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3](1-x) – [Ba(Ni0.5Nb0.5)O3]x relaxor ferroelectric ceramics, Dibyaranjan Das, Roopam Gaur, Satyendra Singh, Ceramics International, 49: 40960-40969  (2023)
  2. Antiferroelectric -like double hysteresis loops in Ag-doped K0.5Na0.5NbO3 ceramics, Roopam Gaur and Satyendra Singh, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 290: 126595 (2022)
  3. Significantly enhanced UV-light-driven photocatalytic performance of ferroelectric (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 : Effect of corona-poling  and particle size, Spriha Kujur*, Roopam Gaur*, Vaishali Gupta* and Satyendra Singh, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (Elsevier), 167: 110751 (2022) ISSN: 0022-3697
  4. Enhanced ferroelectric and electrocaloric properties in CuO-modified lead-free (Na0.5K0.5)NbO3 ceramics for solid-state cooling application, Roopam Gaur, Nitika, Saarthak Kharbanda and Satyendra Singh
  5. Enhanced piezoelectric properties in vanadium-modified lead-free (K0.485Li0.015Na0.5)(Nb0.88Ta0.1V0.02)O3 ceramics prepared from nanopowders, R. Gaur, Apurva Dhingra, Soham Pal and K. Chandramani Singh, Journal of Alloy and Compounds (Elsevier), 625: 284-290 (2015) ISSN: 0925-8388
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

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Patents (if any)

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