Roopam Gaur
      DST INSPIRE Faculty
      Centre/School/Special Centre
              Special Centre for Nanoscience
          Email
              roopamgaur@mail.jnu.ac.in, gaur.roopam@gmail.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
              - 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)
 - Antiferroelectric -like double hysteresis loops in Ag-doped K0.5Na0.5NbO3 ceramics, Roopam Gaur and Satyendra Singh, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 290: 126595 (2022)
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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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