Prof. Rajeev Ahuja

Prof. Rajeev Ahuja is a professor of computational Materials science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently, he is serving as the Director of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. He was also holding the additional charge of director of IIT Guwahati, India from Nov. 2023 to May 2024. He is one of the most highly cited researchers as well as top 5 materials scientist in Sweden and India. He has done his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee in India in 1992. Same year, he joined Uppsala University, Sweden as postdoctoral fellow. He became Professor in 2007 at Uppsala University, Sweden. His main area of interest is materials science with focus on energy such Batteries, Hydrogen Storage & production, sensors as well high-pressure physics. He has published more than 1200 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals H-Index of 110, i-10 index 851 & no. of citations more than 55489. Prof. Ahuja has supervised 30 PhD students, more than 35 post-docs. He has recently elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (F-RSC), UK, and as an APS Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS), USA. He serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Additionally, he is the Associate Editor of Nano Energy.

Prof Ahuja has received several prestigious awards, including the Beller Lectureship at the APS March Meeting in 2017, the Wallmark Prize in 2011 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), Sweden and the Eder Lilly & Sven Thureus Prize, as well as the Benzelius Prize from the Swedish Royal Society of Sciences (KVS), Sweden. He is an elected member of the Swedish Royal Society of Sciences (KVS). Prof Ahuja has been awarded Best Alumnus award from IIT Roorkee, India for excellence in research for 2021.