Director:
AIRF is headed by the Director - Prof. Sobhan Sen from School of Physical Sciences
Deputy Director:
Deputy Director of AIRF is Prof. Kasturi Mukhopadhyay from School of Environmental Sciences
AIRF Faculty Members:
At present AIRF has the following two faculty members at the level of Assistant Professor:
1. Dr. Tulika Prasad
2. Dr. Kavita Arora
AIRF Officers Group A:
Mr. Sandeep Sarpal – Technical Officer
Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh – System Analyst
Dr. Ajai Kumar – System Analyst
Dr. Saroj Kumar Jha – Technical Officer
AIRF Staff Group B and C:
Dr. Ruchita Pal – Senior Technical Assistant
Mr. Plabon Borah – Senior Technical Assistant
Dr. Neetu Singh – Technician B
Mr. Shanker Dutt - Laboratory Assistant (Staff at Director's Office)
Mr. Parveen Kumar - Laboratory Assistant (Staff at Director's Office)
AIRF Building/ Laboratory Maintenance:
Mr. Ashu - Cleaner
Mr. Sonu- Cleaner
AIRF faculty members facilitate the following:
A) Technical and intellectual support:
i) Providing technical support to the users of this facility by facilitating their analysis on these instruments.
ii) Providing intellectual support/ inputs as per their expertise for analysis of the data produced as a result of usage of AIRF and designing future experiments for the users.
iii) Facilitating the day today smooth running of AIRF and conducting/ organizing seminars/ trainings/ workshops for all users.
B) Academic Activities:
i) Training summer trainees on the techniques and the applications of existing AIRF facilities.
ii) Supervising research students.
iii) Carrying research work with their own research grants and awards.
iv) Providing theoretical and practical training on AIRF related topics to graduate and postgraduate (B.Sc./ M. Sc./ M.Phil./ Ph.D.) students of Science schools of JNU and outside JNU.
Of special mention is that AIRF functions efficiently essentially taking the technical and intellectual inputs from the respective JNU faculty member in-charges from the JNU Science Schools who are having specialized expertise in existing and upcoming AIRF facilities.
Past AIRF Employees:
Mr. Sanjay Mukati
Dr. Gajender Saini