Department of Applied Sciences

Dr.C. B. Gupta who is presently working as a Professor of Mathematics, Director IQAC and chairman NAAC,the NorthCap University, Gurugram having a very rich experience of about 35 years in teaching and research, obtained his Master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (India). Prior to this, he has served BITS Pilani, an institute of excellence for about thirty years, The LNMIIT, Jaipur, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and Panjab University, Chandigarh. His field of specialization includes Applied Statistics, Optimization and Operations Research.  On these topics he has published/ presented more than 85 research articles in peer reviewed national, international journals and conferences. A number of students have submitted their theses/ dissertations on these topics under his supervision. He has authored four book chapters and also has 18 books in his credit. Dr. Gupta has been chief -editor for the proceedings of first, second ,third and fourth, fifth and sixth  international conference on Operations Research and Statistics being held at April 2011 in Malaysia, 2012 in Indonesia, 2013,2016,2017 and 2018 in Singapore  respectively. Dr. Gupta is a member on various academic and management committees of many Institutes/ Universities such as member board of studies, advisory committee, selection committee etc.

Dr Sunita Sharma has more than eight years of teaching and eighteen years of research experience. She has done her doctoral studies on “Study of Nonlinear Properties in Materials of Optical Waveguide” in collaboration with Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore. Dr Sharma was selected as DST-JRF, DST & CSIR-SRF and had established z-scan setup in the research lab during her PhD. As a post-doc in different premier research institutes of India, she has worked on “Role of Nanomaterials in Solar Cells”. Dr Sharma has participated in various conferences and ICTP activities throughout India, Singapore and Africa. She has been invited speaker in the webinars for Online Global Classroom organised by Universiti TeknologI Malaysia, Malaysia and delivered the talks on the topics of todays need like COVID 19, 4D Printing and Solar Cells with around 3000 views on facebook. The participants from more than 10 countries had joined these webinars.
Dr Sharma has authored 70 research papers and 5 chapters in edited books. The highest impact factor of her publication is 14.98 and total 696 citations. She is a reviewer of many reputed journals in the field of materials science.
At present, she is program co-ordinator of BSc (H) Physics and supervising undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students for their research work. She is the coordinator of SoC/MoU of NCU with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia.
Areas of Research: Nanomaterials, Solar cells, Optical limiters, Sensors and Lasers.
Hands on Experience on: Nd:YAG Laser, Copper-vapor laser, DSC, XRD,Diffused reflectance spectrometer, Monochromator, Photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes, UV-VIS absorption spectrometer, Solar Simulator, Raman spectrophotometer, Double Zone Tabulator Furnace, LCR meter, SEM, screen printing and Spin Coater
Membership: International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden.
Materials Research Society, Singapore.
Photonics Society of India.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TKv9G8gAAAAJ

Academic Experience

Dr Bharti Arora has been associated with the university since July, 2013. She has more than nine years of teaching experience including Hansraj College and Lady Irwin College (University of Delhi) in past. She is actively involved in teaching Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Engineering Chemistry, Environmental Studies and Green Technology at NCU. She also received an appreciation for excellent classroom teaching by Head, ASIC Accreditation, UK (Prof John Wilson) in 2016 at NCU.

Fellowships/Awards

A meritorious student throughout from University of Delhi, Dr Arora has been awarded “UGC Research Fellowship in Science for Meritorious Students”. She was also selected for the “Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships for Doctoral Research Studies” in 2008. She has been honored as “Bentham Science Ambassador” from “India” by Bentham Publishers (2019). She has received Elsevier Reviewer Recognition as Certificate of appreciation for reviewing articles for Cleaner materials (Elsevier) journal.

Research Areas/ Interest

Biophysical and Biochemical aspects of Nucleic Acids, Structural Biology, Biopolymers, Ionic liquids, Bioinformatics, Water Purification, Phase change materials, Nanocomposites, Carbon Nanotubes.

She is well acquainted with UV-visible & Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy, Gel Electrophoresis and Bioinformatic softwares/tools.

Research Guidance: Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress- 01

International Collaborations: National University Corporation Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Research Publications

Dr Arora has published seven research papers (WOS /SCOPUS) with a total SCI impact factor of 16.54. She has also published seven chapters in books (WOS /SCOPUS) and one Scopus indexed conference proceeding. She has participated and presented papers in several national and international conferences. Click here for publications

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Administrative Roles & Others

Besides her excellent teaching ability, Dr Arora is also looking after the research administration in university as Deputy Dean-Research, Development and Industrial Liaison (RDIL) for the past 8 years. She is also Incharge for NIRF ranking and NAAC accreditation NCU committee. She is also a member of Institutional Innovation Council driven by MOE.

She has also organized many guest lectures by eminent scientists from India and abroad. She also organized a National Workshop on “MEMS Design, Technology & Application” from 1^st-3^rd March, 2015 in collaboration with IITD (Co-Coordinator: Dr Bharti Arora, NCU & Coordinator: Dr Madhusudan Singh, IITD). She is actively involved in delivering invited talks and has participated in panel discussions. She has also written a blog available at https://medium.com/@universitythenorthcap/why-study-chemistry-at-ncu-ba4d9557f7c4.

She is actively involved in organizing chemistry events and educational visits for students including celebration of International year of chemistry 2019. Click here for details

Certifications

"Design the Thinking" Certification, FinTech School of Design Thinking, Chennai

Scientific Associations

She is a Life member of DNA Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, Society of Biological Chemists (India), Indian Biophysical Society & Chemical Research Society of India. She is a reviewer for Cleaner Materials (Elsevier), Nature Scientific Reports (IF 4.011), PLOS One (IF 2.776) & Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry Journal (IF= 2.556), Environment, Development and Sustainability, Springer Journal (2.191).

 

Dr Aditya Sharma has been awarded her PhD in Chemistry from IIT Delhi. She has pursued her doctoral research work in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, as a CSIR- Junior and Senior research fellow. She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD. She continually qualified UGC-CSIR-NET/JRF exam in Chemistry (Dec. 2007,  June 2008 and Dec. 2008). She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD.

Research Publications

Aditya has published twelve research articles, all in SCI-indexed, peer reviewed international journals (ACS, RSC, AIP and Elsevier publications) having an aggregate SCI impact factor of about 50 (open link for publications). The article entitled “Nanopatterned Cadmium Selenide Langmuir–Blodgett Platform for Leukemia Detection” authored by her, was a research highlight of Nature India & IITD website. She is currently guiding four PhD students at NCU (3 independently and 1 jointly).

Research Project
Project investigator in DST-SERB funded research project (25th July, 2016 to 24th June, 2019).
Title of the project: Lateral Flow Assay Strip Sensor Development for Non–Invasive Point of Care Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection”
Sanctioned by: Department of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering Research Board) under Young Scientist scheme.
Sanctioned amount: Rs 42.02 lakh

Research Expertise/Areas of specialization
Hands on experience on UV-Visible and FTIR spectrometer, Electrochemical analyzer (CV, DPV and EIS), Langmuir Blodgett trough, Contact angle meter, Zetasizer and Gel Electrophoresis setup.
Her areas of research interest include Nanomaterial synthesis, Thin film deposition, Biosensor development, Lateral flow assay, Cancer and  Urinary Tract Infection diagnosis.

Membership/Association with Professional Bodies/Societies
Life member of Materials Research Society of India, Chemical Research Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, and Indian Biophysical Society

Dr Tejpal Singh Chundawat is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Chemistry) in Department of Applied Sciences at The NorthCap University Gurugram, and also actively involved in research. He has been eight years teaching experience of undergraduate and postgraduate students in The NorthCap University.
Dr Tejpal was awarded Doctoral degree (Organic Synthesis) by the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi in 2014. As a Research Associate in organic synthesis laboratory he has two years industrial experience in R&D Centre at Jubilant Chemsys Ltd., Noida.
Dr Tejpal has awarded one of the research project from DRDO, New Delhi. He has guided 04 Ph.D. Theses, He has published thirty research papers in various peer reviewed international journals and has presented eight papers in national and international conferences, His research papers have received more than 500 citations with a h-index of 11 and i10-index of 12 (as per google scholar).
In addition he has published three book chapters including one of the popular book series of Intechopen Publishers, London. Dr Tejpal is an Editorial Member of IIST Journal of Applied Chemistry and a member of Indian Society of Analytical Scientist, Delhi Chapter.
Dr Tejpal has honored as “Bentham Ambassador” by Bentham Science Publishers for the year of 2019-2020.

Areas of Research: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Fluorine Chemistry, Metal catalyzed organic synthesis, Stereo-selective catalysts and chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis and Green techniques and environment friendly approach for organic synthesis, Nanomaterial's and its applications.

Research Publications: Publications in International Journals: 30

Research Collaborations:

Coventry University, England
University of Technology, Malaysia
University of Dubuque, Lowa, USA
Augusta University, Georgia

Projects Completed: DRDO funded project, entitled “Development of Polyurethane Coating for Blast Mitigation”
Rs. 9,99,720/-

Research Guidance: Supervision of Doctoral Thesis: Awarded -02, Submitted-02, under progress- 03

Google Scholar Citations: 579, h-index: 11; i10-index: 12 (Click here)

SCOPUS Citations: (Click here)

Dr. Anshu is working as an Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) in the Department of Applied Sciences since 11th July, 2016. She has 11 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience. She has completed her Ph.D. degree in 2016 from Banasthali University, India in Applied Mathematics under the guidance of Prof. Deepa Sinha, South Asian University. She has done MTech in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Mathematics from Banasthali University in 2007 and 2009 and since then she has been serving several Institutions for graduate courses, particularly Geeta Group of Institutions (2009-2011), Samalkha Group of Institutions and Rameesh Group of Institutions Greater Noida (2011-2012).

Her Ph.D. Dissertation “Excursion of Graph Structures through Algorithms” under the guidance of Prof. Deepa Sinha. She was selected under ‘Visiting Students Study Program’, (higher mathematics) at Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. She is also a part of ART of LIVING family since 2009 and actively participating in meditation. She has several research papers to her account in journals of high impact factor.

She is guiding 4 research scholars on Algorithmic Graph Theory, Soft Computing and Data Analysis and guided 2 research scholars who defended their Phd Thesis on 14th November, 2019 and 20th January, 2021. She has also guided 8 M. Sc Maths dissertations and several projects based on Graph theory, Soft Computing, Data Analysis, Algorithms etc.
She has published high quality research papers in international journals and conferences. She is a professional member and advisor of Professional Society ENACTUS. She has one year of industrial experience at STMicroelectronics, Greater Noida where she works as an application manager and works on REMEDY and EPM tool by IBM. She is the mentor of Mathemactive Society of NCU. She is reviewer and editor in various reputed International and National Journals. Her area of expertise are Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, Algorithm Development, Computational techniques.

She has brilliant academic record and has been an outstanding student throughout her studies. She secured first position in Post Graduation. She was Topper in Tenth standard in all streams in school. She had won cash prize and Scholarship in Science Scholarship Competition . She Assisted the Food Committee in the ‘International Conference on Operator Theory and Related Areas’ held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, during January 9-12, 2008. Her research domain includes Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.She earned her doctoral degree at the Department of Mathematics, Delhi University on the topic ‘Generalised Reed-Muller Codes’. She is presently interested in exploring new dimensions in her field . She has presented 3 research papers in national and international conferences.

She has published several research papers in reputed international journals including SCI journals. She is associated with the University since Jan 2017. She is member of various reputed Mathematical Societies including American Mathematical society , Life member of Indian Science Congress Association, Life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Life member of Indian Mathematical Society . She has almost 10 years teaching and 10 years of research experience.

Areas of Research: Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.

Research Records: Publications in International Journals: 9
International Conferences attended : 5
National Conferences attended: 12
Reviewer in reputed journals MATH SciNet and Zentrablatt
Mathematics subject expert in CBSE UDAAN project since 2015

Dr. Rajni holds a very attractive academic record throughout the course of her study. She has done her Ph.D in the field of Numerical Analysis in IIT Roorkee in the year 2018. She completed her graduation and post graduation from CCS university, Meerut. During the period of research work, she has published various research papers in the international journals of repute. She qualified National Eligibility Test (JRF) in 2012. She got DST travel award for presenting a research paper in international conference on applied mathematics ICOME-2017 held in Turkey.

Workshops and Seminars:

Computational Techniques for Differential equations with Matlab (CTDE-2015), July 02-06,2015, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee.

International Conference on Mathematics and Applications (ICMA-2017), D.U. April, 26-28, 2017, presented a paper entitled “A Bernstein Polynomial Differential Quadrature Method for Numerical Solutions of Kawahara Equation”.

Annual Foundation School (AFS-I) organized in IIT Delhi by National Center for Mathematics (A joint center of TIFR and IIT Bombay), December 04-30, 2017.

Areas of Interest: Numerical solutions of PDEs, Numerical Methods, B-spline functions, Berstein Polynomials

Dr. Tarul Garg received her M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2013. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Approximation Theory (Pure Mathematics) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in September 2018. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in July 2018. Presently, she is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.

She was awarded with “Best Presentation Award” in the “ICMAA 2018: 20th International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications” held in London, United Kingdom during January 18-19, 2018. She plays a role of teaching assistant for the course of Numerical Linear Algebra in NPTEL online certification course January-April, 2018. She has six months experience of teaching in the Applied Science department of Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology (KIET), Ghaziabad from July, 2013 to December, 2013. She got a National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Fellowship from National Board of Higher Mathematics from July, 2011 to June, 2013. She did her summer internship at IISER Mohali sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore during May-July, 2012.

Research Gate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tarul_Garg2

Research Publications till now:

Publications in International Journals: 3

Paper presented in International Conferences (India and Abroad): 2

Attended International Workshop and Conferences (India): 3

Dr. Sanjay yadav received his M.Sc. degree in mathematics from C.C.S.University Uttar Pradesh India. He completed his PhD degree from IIT Roorkee in October 2015. Presently, he is working as an assistant professor in the department of Applied Sciences, The NorthCap University.

Dr.Yadav had 5 years of teaching experience and published 5 research papers in international peer reviewed journals. He has actively participated in more than 8 International/National conferences to present his work.

Dr Arjun Singh received M.Sc degree in Physics from University of Delhi in 2007. He completed M.Tech. from Thapar University Patiala followed by PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2016. After two year of postdoctoral experience from India and abroad, he joined as assistant professor of physics in the Dept. of Applied Science, North Cap University, Gurugram India.

He is an experimental physicist and his research interest include printable and flexible semiconductor devices such as polymer solar cell, perovskite solar cell and thin film transistors. Dr Singh has published 13 research papers in internal peer reviewed journals. He has actively participated in 7- national and international conferences to present his work.

Area of expertise:

Semiconductor devices (polymer Solar cell, perovskite solar cell, OLEDs Thin film transistors (TFT’s) )

Research Publications-13

Research work presented in Conferences – 07

Dr. Anubhav Raghav is working as an Assistant Professor at North Cap University, Gurugram, Haryana. He has obtained graduation degree from Rohilkhand University and Post graduation degree from Aligarh Muslim University in year 2010 and 2012 subsequently. He has qualified Gate, NET, JEST. He has worked in Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. He has completed his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee in October 2018. During his Ph.D. he has worked on DST-DAAD project (Jointly with IITR and University of Bayreuth, Germany). He has published various research articles in peer reviewed Journal. https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=PtkslREAAAAJ&hl=en. He has worked in National Physical Laboratory as a research associate from October 2018 to September 2019.

Area of Interest:-

Perovskite Solar Cell, Quantum Dots, Polymer Solar Cells, Dye Sensitized Solar Cell
Nanomaterials Synthesis, Charecterization and applications, Nanofibers

Dr. Astha Chauhan holds a very impressive academic record throughout the course of her study. Dr. Astha Chauhan received her M.Phil. degree in Mathematics from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut in 2015. She was awarded with Vice Chancellor Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.Phil. She completed her PhD degree from IIT Roorkee in January 2021. She has qualified National Eligibility Test (NET-JRF) conducted by CSIR-UGC in June 2014, December 2014 and December 2015. She has also qualified the graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2015. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in March 2021. Presently, she is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.

Her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Numerical and Analytical Solutions of Selected Non-Linear PDEs” is related to study to determine the analytical and/or numerical solutions to some selected non-linear realistic problems governed by the partial differential equations. It is concerned with the study of shock waves and Riemann problem in gas dynamics. This area is of her primary interest because of its wide range of applications in various fields of science: astrophysics, gas-dynamics, combustion theory, cosmology etc. Dr. Astha has more than 20 research papers in international peer reviewed (SCI/Scopus) journals. She has actively participated in 7 International/National conferences and workshop to present her research work. Dr. Astha is a reviewer for many reputed journals (Physica Scripta, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing).

Research Interest: Shock waves, Riemann problem, Lie Symmetry Analysis, Solutions of non-linear PDEs, Conservation Laws

Research Gate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=QVn5VLIAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Chetna has received her PhD degree from The NorthCap University, Gurugram. She is a Gold Medallist in M.Tech (Nanotechnology) from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, (RGPV) Bhopal. She has secured 2nd position in order of Merit in her M.Sc. (Physics) from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. She has 9 years of teaching and Research experience. Her research interest is mainly on synthesis and fabrication of nanomaterials and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Chetna was also involved in cultural activities during her college, she has won second and third prize at university level drama competition in youth festival in year 2004 and 2005.

Publications
• Number of Publications- 11
• Conferences- 12
Sponsored Project
• Title: Polymer nanocomposite based solar cell
• Role: Principal Investigator
• Funding Agency: Women Scientist Scheme-A (WOS-A), Department of Science and Technology (DST)
• Project Duration and Amount: 3 years and 24,30,000/-
Projects
• Structural, Optical and Transport properties of InxGa1-xAs/GaAs QW and InAs/InxGa1-xAs/GaAs DWELL structures, SCLS, RRCAT, Indore (M.P).
• Synthesis and characterization of CdS Quantum dot, School of Nanotechnology (SONT), Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, (M.P).
Study of Optical Properties of CdS Quantum Dot Thin Film, Nanomaterial Laboratory, Department of Physics, UTD Barkatullah University, Bhopal.

Dr. Pooja Punyani received Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2021. She pursued M.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in August 2021. Presently, she is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.
She has worked on the thesis titled "On Changes in Frobenius Number" in the realm of Combinatorial Number Theory. Her research interests include Number Theory and Algebra. She obtained full travel grant from CSIR to present paper at reputed international conference in USA and was awarded highly student’s recommended Talk at La Trobe, Australia. She was also an invited speaker at CANT 2021. She has published papers in refereed international journals. Her papers can be found here.

She received National Board of Higher Mathematics, DAE, Govt. of India, research fellowship 2013 to 2018. She is Gate AIR -142 and secured highest score in B.Sc. Math (Hons.) at her alma mater Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.

During her Ph.D. at IITD, she gained teaching assistant (TA) experience of 5.8 years. She was involved with the undergraduate and postgraduate subjects like Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory and Advance Number Theory. She also served as a TA for Algebra at Annual Foundation School I and Core team Member of Regional Mathematical Olympiad, Delhi.

She is actively involved as a volunteer with The Art of living Foundation since 2014.

Dr. Sakshi Gupta, is currently working as Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Department of Applied Science, The NorthCap University, Gurugram. She received her doctoral degree in Chemistry from School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has completed her post-graduation from Lucknow University.
The topic of her PhD thesis was: “Study of Ligand Binding Thermodynamics in Understanding the Molecular Recognition Phenomenon in Biological Macromolecules”. She has been working in the area of Biophysical Chemistry, especially on protein-DNA and protein-drug interactions. She has played a key role on a collaborative project, studying drug targeting effects of parasitic protein. She has gained expertise in handling many advanced biophysical techniques such as Circular Dichroism, Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, UV- Vis Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Gel Electrophoresis, Atomic Force Microscopy and Protein docking tools.
Dr. Sakshi has also been awarded Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR for her Doctoral Research Studies. She has presented her findings at International Conference and also been awarded there. She has published papers in several international peer reviewed journals with a total SCI impact factor of 29.623. Details of her publications can be found here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WvtQd60AAAAJ

Dr. Antim Chauhan received Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in September 2021. She pursued M.Phil. degree (2014) and M.Sc. degree (2012) in Mathematics from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut and She was awarded with Vice Chancellor Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.Sc. She got fellowship under the scheme and "Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE)" in July 2013. She has qualified National Eligibility Test (NET-JRF) conducted by CSIR-UGC in June 2014 (AIR-24) and December 2015 (AIR-16). She has also qualified the graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE, AIR-201) in 2015. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in February 2022. Presently, she is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.

She has worked on the thesis titled “Study of Shock Wave Propagation in Gaseous Medium” is related to the study of analytical, numerical, and approximate solutions to the non-linear hyperbolic systems of PDEs involving converging and diverging shock waves in the gaseous medium. This area is of her primary interest because of its wide range of applications in various fields of science: astrophysics, material science, astrophysics, medical science, combustion theory etc. Dr. Antim has
more than 13 research papers in international peer reviewed (SCI/Scopus) journals till the date January 2022. She has actively participated in 3 International and 5 workshop to present her research work. She obtained full travel grant from the conference to present paper at reputed international conference ICIAM 2019 held in Valencia, Spain, July 15-19, 2019. Got a Certificate of Appreciation “Rank 2” for excellent research performance on 26 January by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Dr. Antim is a reviewer for the reputed international journal “European Physical Journal Plus (EPJP)”.