Ajay K. Sood

Ajay Sood
Sood in 2015 (portrait from the Royal Society)
4th Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2022
Preceded byK. VijayRaghavan
Personal details
Born
Ajay Kumar Sood

(1951-06-26) 26 June 1951 (age 73)[1]
Gwalior, Madhya Bharat, India[1]
EducationIndian Institute of Science
Awards
Websitephysics.iisc.ernet.in/~asood

Ajay Kumar Sood FNA, FASc, FNASc, FRS, FTWAS (born 26 June 1951)[1] is an Indian physicist and researcher currently serving as the 4th Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

He holds 2 United States and 5 Indian patents,[3][4] and is known for his pioneering research findings[5] on graphene and nanotechnology.[6][7] He is a Distinguished Honorary Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.[8] The Government of India honoured him in 2013, with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology.[9] Sood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[2][10] He has been on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.[11] He serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Nano.[12]

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  4. ^ "Bangalore Nano". Bangalore Nano. 2014. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
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  6. ^ "Heroes of the city's scientific success story". India Today. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
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  8. ^ "Department of Physics - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore". www.physics.iisc.ernet.in.
  9. ^ "Padma 2013". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Kamal Bawa and Ajay Sood elected FRS - Gonit Sora". 1 May 2015.
  11. ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  12. ^ pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/editors.html