Dr. Pankaj R.

Sagdeo
prs@iiti.ac.in

 Introduction- Dr. Sagdeo is working as an Associate Professor and

Head at IIT Indore in the Discipline of Physics.
 He has demonstrated the structural origin and importance of strain
responsible for various electronic and magnetic phases observed in
Perovskite Oxides from UGC-DAE CSR INDORE in the year 2007 for
his doctoral degree.
 Along with this, he worked as a Research Associate at UGC-DAE CSR
INDORE on the topic “Study of the electronic structure of Ca doped
LaMnO3 using PES beamline BL-2 on INDUS-1 Synchrotron x-ray
source” and “Design and development of XMCD beamline on INDUS-2
Synchrotron x-ray source” in 2007-2008.
 After completing Ph.D. Dr. Sagdeo Joined Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre (BARC) in 2008 as a Scientific Officer-D where he set up the
state of the art coating facilities for optical and neutron mirror
applications at BARC and proudly published first research publication
from BARC/DAE Visakhapatnam.
 In June 2012 Dr. Sagdeo joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Indore as an Assistant Professor.
 In IIT Indore Dr. Sagdeo is involved in Research, Teaching and
established a Material Research Laboratory which works on the physics
of highly correlated electron system, quantum confinements in
nanocrystalline systems and scientific instrumentation development.
 Dr. Sagdeo is having a strong hold on various important sample
characterization techniques and working as a referee for various scientific
journals of AIP, IOP, Elsevier, MRS, Wiley, Springer, etc.
 Research Area- Dr. P.R. Sagdeo is an experimental condensed matter
physicist and is working in developing smart materials, especially for
low/room/high-temperature applications. He has published 125 papers
AND 2 Projects.
 With 2093 citations.
 Having 27 H-Index.
 He has been awarded by G N NAVNEET PRIZE IN (1996)