Five PU scientists shortlisted for Faculty Research Awards

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 19

Five teachers of Panjab University have been shortlisted, including three from the Physics Department alone, for Faculty Research Awards, 2018.

The faculty members include Prof Suman Beri, Prof Vipin Bhatnagar and Prof Manjit Kaur from the Physics Department. The other two professors are — OP Katare from the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Dr Kewal Krishan, Chairperson, Department of Anthropology.

Prof Manjit Kaur, Prof Beri and Prof Bhatnagar are leading scientists as far as contributions in Large Hadron Collider experiment are concerned. The high ranking of PU is also due to the work of particle physics scientists of the Physics Department.

The selection was based on a composite score generated by evaluating the academic output of the researcher in Scopus indexed journals for 2015-17, the citation count and h-index.

These researchers are among the top 10 ‘Most outstanding Researchers” in the field of their specialisation.

About 254 academic researchers from the country across 24 disciplines have been shortlisted towards determining the awards which will be presented by Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar on March 20 in New Delhi. The awards have been constituted by Careers360 to recognise the efforts of India’s brightest minds in the field of academic research.