Biography

Dr. Prashant Baviskar is Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, SN Arts, DJ Malpani Commerce & BN Sarda Science College, Sangamner affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune since from July, 2019 and has a strong research background in the field of Nano-materials for green energy conversion. Briefly, Prashant’s research interest is focused on designing and engineering of functional materials such as Metal Oxides/Chalcogenides, Conducting polymers and their composited for energy conversion applications with special emphasis on Dye sensitized and Quantum dot sensitized solar cells, room temperature LPG sensors etc. Before joining Sangamner College, Dr. Prashant worked as Dr. D S Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow-UCG, India (2017-2019) at Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. He was awarded as Fast track Young Scientist and received around Rs. 34 lacks funds as Principal Investigator from DST-SERB, India to work on solid state dye sensitized solar cells at KCB North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon (2013-2017). He is also former recipient of two prestigious fellowships: DAAD Fellow (German Academic Exchange Service) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany (2010) and Senior Research Fellow, CSIR, India (2011-2012). So far, Prashant has co-authored more than 50 research articles including Solar Energy, RSC Advances, ACS Omega, Electrochimica Acta, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials Science and Engineering: B, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, Applied Surface Science, and many more and achieved over 546 citations, ‘h’ index: 14 and ‘i10’ index 20 (Google Scholar). He also serves as reviewer for many international Journals of Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Chemical Society (ACS), IOP science, etc.
His Google Scholar citation is available via the link below:
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=5jILxPoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works