Pro-President (Research & Quality)

Prof. Ankur Jain is a Professor of Physics and Head of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Storage at Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. He has also served as the Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at the Suresh Gyan Vihar University. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rajasthan, where his research focused on hydrogen storage in zirconium-based materials.

Prof. Jain has extensive international research experience, having worked at Hiroshima University, Japan, where he served as Associate Professor. He has also been awarded the prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and worked as an ICTP-TRIL Fellow in Italy. He is currently associated with Hiroshima University as Visiting Professor, University of South Africa as Extraordinarius Professor and UNIVERSITAS SYIAH KUALA, Indonesia as visiting Professor.

His research interests include hydrogen energy, energy storage materials, solid-state batteries, nanostructured materials, and catalytic tuning of metal hydrides. He has published more than 160 research papers in SCI/Scopus indexed journals and 30 books/book chapters, with an h-index of 36 and over 6000 citations.

Prof. Jain has supervised 19 Ph.D. scholars and is currently guiding several doctoral researchers in the areas of hydrogen storage, lithium-ion batteries, and advanced energy materials. He has also been actively involved in establishing advanced laboratories for hydrogen energy and electrochemistry research.

He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, Young Scientist Award from DST (Government of India), and multiple Research Excellence Awards from Suresh Gyan Vihar University as well as Hiroshima University Japan.

Prof. Jain serves on editorial boards and as guest editor for several international journals and actively reviews manuscripts for leading journals in the fields of energy materials and hydrogen technologies.