Dr. Kaushik Biswas
Scientist
Glass Science & Technology Section
central glass and ceramic research institute
India
Biography
Dr. Kaushik Biswas is currently a Scientist in the department of Glass Science & Technology Section CSIR Central glass and ceramic research institute India. He completed B.Sc. (Tech.) (Ceramic Technology), University of Calcutta, M.Tech. (Materials Science and Engineering), IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. Technical University of Dresden, (Germany). He is awarded INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2012), CSIR Young Scientist Award in Engineering Sciences (2011), Awarded First Prize for Best Young scientist of CGCRI for the year 2009-2010 (Institutional Award), Best paper award on "Glass and Ceramics" published during the year 2009-2010 from CGCRI, Kolkata, Awarded sliver medal for being Post Graduate Topper in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2003 etc.
Research Interest
Thermal, optical and photoluminescence properties of rare earth doped glasses, Crystallization kinetics in Glasses, Oxyfluoride based transparent glass-ceramics, NIR/MIR emissions from low phonon non-conventional oxide glasses, Glasses to improve the efficiency of solar cell via up-conversion/down-conversion, Chalcogenide glasses, Bioactive glass and glass-ceramics.
