Manish Kumar obtained his M.Tech. degree in Ceramic Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Institute of Science, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at ARSD College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, for more than 12 years. His research focuses on environmentally friendly multifunctional materials for energy and memory devices, materials for green energy solutions, multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, composites, perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications, supercapacitors, white light-emitting materials, solar simulation via different software, and DFT calculation. He has published more than 123 research papers in international journals of high repute, authored one book on white light-emitting materials, edited five books, contributed 27 international book chapters, and holds one Indian patent. He has delivered talks at numerous national and international conferences and is a member of various research committees at different universities. Additionally, he has completed two national research projects and received the best research award from his institute. He has supervised and is currently supervising several Ph.D., M.Tech./M.Sc., and B.Sc./B.Tech. students. Dr. Kumar serves or has served as an editor for several highly reputed journals.
Abhishek Raj received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, and completed his M.Tech. and Ph.D. (M.Tech.-Ph.D. dual degrees) from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) at CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur, India. He has published 27 international research papers and one book chapter in an international research book of high repute. He also received the Late Shri P.S. Dutt Memorial Award for “Best Young Researcher” for his significant contribution to R&D in Environmental Science & Engineering, presented during the 65th CSIR-NEERI Foundation Day celebration on April 8, 2023. His research focuses on the design and development of lead-free perovskite solar cells through experimental and computational approaches.