CHANDRA RAY SEKHAR

Prof. Sekhar Chandra Ray (Ph.D. University of the North Bengal, India) is among the top 2% scientists in the world compiled by “Stanford University” in 2020, 2021, 2022 (PLOS Biology, Oct. 2020 and so on--) and NRF (South Africa) rated B2 scientist is currently working as professor of physics at the University of South Africa in experimental condensed matter physics. Prof. Ray hails from India where he completed his doctoral studies which focused mainly on the synthesis of photovoltaic solar-grade materials & their probable application. He has worked as a research fellow and visiting scientist in Italy (INFM Fellow), Taiwan (NSC Fellow), Spain (ICMM, CSIC, Foreign Researcher Fellow, Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain), South Korea (Brain Pool Research Fellow, Govt. South Korea), and India (IACS, Visiting Scientist). Prof. Ray’s research group focuses on carbon nanostructure and their composites material (CNTs, Graphene, Fullerene, carbon-nanoparticles) and their electronic structure/magnetic properties for the possible fabrication of spintronic devices application and bioimaging processes. Prof. Ray also worked on different diluted magnetic semiconductor oxide materials like ZnO, TiO2, ZnS, CdZnS, etc. Prof. Ray is expertise in “Synchrotron radiation-based spectroscopy and microscopy” and he is working on it since last more than 25 years. Based on his expertise, Prof. Ray received an 11M rand (USD 1.0M) NNEP fund from NRF (South Africa) to establish XPS-UPS dual-type spectrometer machine in the department of Physics, University of South Africa. Prof. Ray is working with many research groups worldwide. At present, Prof. Ray is working on different 2D-structure materials that include not only Graphene-based materials but also Stanene, Germanene, MoS2, Silicene, etc. During his last 25-year research career, he has published 170 peer-reviewed research articles, including eight in Nature Publishing Group (NPG) journal with more than 6500 citations (h-index 36 and i10-index 113) in an internationally recognized journal. Prof. Ray has written and published three books based on carbon and carbon nanostructured materials. He also peer-reviewed nearly 1000 articles for different international journals and acts as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports-NPG journal.