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Avanish Kumar Srivastava

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Avanish Kumar Srivastava

Guest Professor, Materials Engineering

  • BSc: Lucknow University, 1984
  • MSc (Hons): IIT Roorkee (UOR), 1986
  • MTech: IIT Kanpur, 1988
  • PhD: IISc Bangalore, 1996



  • Recent Publications

    1. F.Carlier, S.Benrezzak, Ph.Cahuzac, N.Kébaïli, A.Masson, A.K.Srivastava, C.Colliex and C. Bréchignac, Dynamics of polymorphic nanostructures: from growth to collapse, Nano Letters, 6 (2006) 1875-1879. [IF: 10.8]. Highlighted in SCIENCE, 314 (2006) 224. [IF 56.9].

    2. R.Pasricha, S.Gupta, A.K.Srivastava, A facile and novel synthesis of Ag-graphenebased nanocomposites, Small (Micro, Nano) 5 (2009) 2253-2259. [IF: 15.1]. CITATIONS: 600

    3. B. Gahtori, S. Bathula, K. Tyagi, M. Jayasimhadri, A.K. Srivastava, S. Singh, R.C. Budhani and A. Dhar, Giant Enhancement in Thermoelectric Performance of Copper Selenide by incorporation of different Nanoscale Dimensional Defect Features, Nano Energy, 2015, 13, 36. [I.F.= 17.6].

    4. A.K.Srivastava, N.Dwivedi, C.Dhand, R.Khan, N.Sathish, M.K.Gupta, R.Kumar, S.Kumar, Potential of Graphene-based materials to combat COVID – 19: properties, perspectives, and prospects, Materials Today Chemistry, 18 (2020) 100385-100398 [I.F. = 7.3].

    5. D. K. Bharti, M.K. Gupta, R. Kumar, N. Sathish, A.K. Srivastava, Noncentrosymmetric zinc silicate-graphene based transparent flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator, Nano Energy 73 (2020) 104821 [I.F.= 17.6].

  • Work Experience

    1. Guest Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (August 2025 to Present)

    2. Director, Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal (October 2017 to Present)

    3. Outstanding Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR),CSIR (October 2017 to Present)

    4. Director (additional charge), National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur (October 2022 - September 2023)

    5. Scientist, Group IV, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (November 1996 - October 2017)

    6. Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR (January 2013 - October 2017)

    7. Associate Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR (August 2011 - December 2012)

    8. Application Expert in Electron Microscopy, JEOL, T.B. (SR) P L Bangalore (September 1995 - October 1996)

    9. Research Associate, I.I.Sc. Bangalore (during Ph.D.) (July 1994 - September 1995)

    10. Senior Project Associate, I.I.T. Kanpur (after M.Tech.) (February 1988 - September 1989)

Research Interests

  • ● Applied to understanding the nucleation-growth mechanisms
  • ● Phase transformations
  • ● Microstructures & defects of various materials
  • ● Bioinspired materials
  • ● Safety, health & environment
  • ● Waste to wealth
  • ● Composites