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Ram Prasad Prajapati

Ram Prasad Prajapati

Ram Prasad Prajapati
Ram Prasad Prajapati
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Physical Sciences
Room No
Office - 222, Lab - 233
Off. Phone
011-26738964
Email
rpprajapati@mail.jnu.ac.in, prajapati.iter@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/rpprajapati/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph.D.: Vikram University, Ujjain (M.P.) (2010)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Theory, computational and simulation studies in Astrophysical plasmas, Structure formations in interstellar media, Molecular clouds, Dense stars, Degenerate systems, Gravitational instability, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, Neutrino-plasma interactions in core-collapse supernovae, Dusty (complex) plasmas, Strongly coupled plasmas.

Experience

Associate Professor: School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Nov 2020-till date)

Assistant Professor: Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, India (July 2011 – Nov 2020)

Visiting Associate: Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India (July 2019-June 2022)

Postdoctoral Fellow: Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India (Dec 2010 – July 2011) with Prof. Rajaraman Ganesh

Major Research Projects Completed/Ongoing (03): ISRO, Bengaluru; SERB, New Delhi; UGC, New Delhi

Ph.D. Supervised: 02; M.Sc. Projects: 25

Awards & Honours
  • Visiting Associateship awarded by IUCAA, Pune, India (2019).
  • JRF in DST, New Delhi funded research project (2007).
  • Young Scientist in Physics awarded by Vigyan Bharti (2009).
  •  BUTI Young Scientist Award by Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) (2009).
  • DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award (2013).
  • BRICS Young Scientist, DST, New Delhi (2017)
  • Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS-DPP) Best Research Award in Solar/Astro category, Kanazawa, Japan (2018).
  • Fellowships awarded to present research papers and deliver talks in abroad: DST, New Delhi SPPT Czech Republic (2010); ICTP/IAEA ICTP, Italy (2010); ICPDP, Germany (2011); ITER-ICTP-IAEA, ICTP, Italy (2011); ITC-23 NIFS, Japan (2013); ICPP, Taiwan (2016); APPC-AIP, Australia (2016); AAPPS-DPP, Japan (2016); DST, BRICS, China (2017); APPC, Malaysia (2019).
  • Referee for peer review process of reputed journals: ApJ (IOP), PLA (Elsevier), PoP (AIP), AP&SS (Springer), PP&CF (IOP), JPP (Cambridge Press), PScr (IOP), Pramana (Springer), CPP (Wiley), EPL (IOP), EPJD (Springer), JA&A (IAS). 
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  • BRICS Alumni Network among researchers of BRICS Nations.
  • Member in Advisory Panel of Editorial Board of Physica Scripta, IOP (UK).
  • KU Leuven, Belgium with Prof. Ronny Keppens
  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia with Prof. Birendra Pandey
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Self-gravitational instability of rotating viscous Hall plasma with arbitrary radiative heat-loss functions and electron inertia, R. P. Prajapati, R. K. Pensia, S. Kaothekar and R. K. Chhajlani, Astrophys.  Space Sci. 327, (2010) 139.
  2. Effect of polarization force on the Jeans instability of self-gravitating dusty plasma, R. P. Prajapati, Physics Letters A, 375 (2011) 2624.
  3. Radiative condensation instability in gravitating strongly coupled dusty plasma with polarization force, R. P. Prajapati and S. Bhakta, Astrophys. Space Sci., 357 (2015) 101.
  4. Influence of dust charge fluctuation and polarization force on radiative condensation instability of magnetized gravitating dusty plasma, R. P. Prajapati and S. Bhakta, Physics Letters A, 379 (2015) 2723.
  5. Gravitational instability of rotating anisotropic pressure quantum plasma, S. Argal, R. P. Prajapati and P. K. Sharma, J. Plasma Physics, 83 (2017) 905830203.
  6. Rayleigh-Taylor instability in non-uniform magnetized rotating strongly coupled viscoelastic fluid, R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas, 23 (2016) 022106.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. Gravitational instability in radiative molecular clouds including cosmic ray diffusion and ion Larmor radius corrections, Ram Prasad Prajapati, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510 (2022) 2127.
  2. Dissipation of hydromagnetic waves in the viscous polytropic zone of the solar wind including FLR corrections, ohmic diffusion, and the Hall effect, Ram Prasad Prajapati, E. T. Desta, Mei-Ching Fok, T. H. Eritro, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515 (2022) 1444.
  3. Effects of heat-flux vector and Braginskii viscosity on wave dissipation and instabilities in rotating gravitating anisotropic plasmas, E. T., Desta, Ram Prasad Prajapati & T. H. Eritrea, European Physical Journal Plus 137 (2022) 437.
  4. Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in sheared dusty plasma flows including dust polarization and ion drag forces, B. Dolai and Ram Prasad Prajapati, Physica Scripta 97 (2022) 065603.
  5. Effects of cosmic radiation pressure on the gravitational instability of rotating plasmas, Ram Prasad Prajapati and Isha Shailesh, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 43 (2022) 33.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.