IIT-Ropar teacher bags Swarna Jayanti Fellowship

Tribune News Service

Ropar, November 9

Dr Rajesh V Nair, an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Ropar, has bagged the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship in physical sciences for the year 2019-20.

The prestigious fellowship is offered by the Department of Science and Technology. He is among 21 prominent researchers across India selected for the fellowship this year.

Dr Nair is the first IIT-Ropar faculty to get the fellowship since the second-generation IIT was established 12 years ago in 2008.

Dr Nair’s research project is on the manipulation of light transport and emission using nature-inspired structures like that in a peacock feather. His group is aiming to understand the light emission down to a single-photon level from the precise atomic defects in solid-state materials through the ‘Swarna Jayanti Fellowship’.

The fellowship will cover all the requirements for research and includes a monthly fellowship of Rs 25,000 as well as a research grant of Rs 5 lakh for five years in addition to the salary.