Synchrotrons Utilization Section
HBNI Activities

SUS member are actively involved in the academic activities of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai. A number of external candidates as well as staff members of SUS have completed their Ph. D. from HBNI.

A list of staff members of SUS who are HBNI faculty:


Sr. No. Name Designation
1 Dr. Tapas Ganguli Associate Professor
2 Dr. A.K. Sinha Associate Professor
3 Dr. A.K. Srivastava Associate Professor
4 Dr. M.H. Modi Associate Professor
5 Dr. M.K. Tiwari Associate Professor
6 Dr. M. Nayak Asstt. Professor
7 Dr. Archna Sagdeo Asstt. Professor
8 Dr. Pooja Gupta Asstt. Professor
9 Dr. Rahul Shukla Asstt. Professor
10 Dr. S.D. Singh Asstt. Professor


The external candidates as well as staff members of SUS who have completed their Ph.D. from HBNI


Sr. No. Name Year Thesis title
1 Dr. S.D. Singh 2013 MOVPE growth and characterization of quantum structures based on III-V semiconductors
2 Dr. S.K. Rai 2014 Interface characterization of multilayer mirrors
3 Dr. Mahesh K Swami 2014 Optical polarimetric spectroscopy of biological systems
4 Dr V. Dhamagaye 2015 Studies on design and development of Indus-2 X-ray lithography beamline and its applications in X-ray optics and biosensor
5 Dr. Harishchandra Singh 2016 Structural and spectroscopic studies of transition metal based multiferroics and oxides
6 Dr. Amol Singh 2016 Study of compound materials for x-ray optical application
7 Dr. Gangadhar Das 2018 Depth Resolved Structural and Chemical Studies of Nanostructured Materials using Synchrotron Radiation
8 Dr. P. Tiwari 2018 Studies on Electron Beam and Ion Beam Lithography Techniques for Fabrication of Diffractive Optical Elements
9 Dr. Ravindra Jangir 2018 Studies of photoluminescence characteristics of β-Ga2O3 nanostructures deposited by different growth techniques
10 Dr. Himanshu Shrivastava 2018 Growth and characterizations of Metal Oxide Nanowires
11 Dr. P.C. Pradhan 2019 Fabrication and characterization of multilayers for x-ray optics applications
12 Dr. N. Pothana 2019 (submitted) Thermal stability, structure and interface study of x-ray multilayers for EUV-SXR applications
13 Dr. Sudheer 2019 Growth, Characterization and Fabrication of Metallic Thin Films and Periodic Nanostructures for Plasmonic Applications
14 Dr. D. Mondal 2019 Study of electronic structure of intermetallic alloys


The external candidates who are currently pursuing their Ph.D. degree from HBNI


Sr. No. Name Registeration Year Discipline Guide
1 Ms Mangalika Sinha 2014 Physical Sciences Dr. M.H. Modi
2 Mr. Arindam Majhi 2014 Physical Sciences Dr. M. Nayak
3 Ms Preeti Pokhriyaal 2015 Physical Sciences Dr. A. Jaiswal
4 Ms Kiranjot 2016 Physical Sciences Dr. M.H. Modi
5 Mr. Sumit 2017 Engineering Sciences Dr. R. Shukla
6 Mr. Varun P. Sharma 2018 Engineering Sciences Dr. R. Shukla


Staff members of SUS who are currently pursuing their Ph.D. degree from HBNI


Sr. No. Name Registeration Year Discipline
1 Mr. Praveen Yadav 2014 Physical Sciences
2 Ms. Madhushmita Baral 2016 Physical Sciences
3 Mr. Kiran Kumar Braik 2017 Physical Sciences
4 Mr. Ashok Kumar 2017 Physical Sciences
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