Dr.swapna S Nair

Biography

After M.Sc.and Ph.D.from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Dr.Swapna S. Nair had been working as a Post-Doctoral fellow in Institute of Nanomaterials, Nanodevices and Nanomodeling(I3N), Portugal in nanomaterials and devices from Jan. 2008 to Dec. 2011. Later she joined as a Post-Doctoral researcher in CICECO, University of Aveiro, in Jan. 2012. She had taught in SreeSankaraVidyaPeetom College, M.G. University from 2006-2007 as Assistant Professor in (against FIP vacancy), and as Full time Assistant Professor (Contract) in International School of Photonics (M.Tech. Photonics programme), Cochin University of Science and Technology (2007-2008)before joining Central University of Kerala as Assistant Professor in Department of Physics in 2012.She specialises in the following areas: Nanomaterials, NEMS/MEMS, Energy materials, Multiferroics& magneto electrics, Ferrofluids, and Biomedical applications of nanomaterials. At present she is engaged in the project "Development of lead-free multiferroic 3-0(nanoparticulate composite), and 2-2 (multilayers) by sol-gel method for magnetoelectric devices", UGC Start Up grant, 2013-15´.At present 5 students are working for PhD under her guidance.She has written 38 research articles (25 research articles and 13 book chapters, all Peer reviewed international) and published 2 books (International Peer reviewed).Two of her publications received more than 100 citations while 5 of her publications received 50 citations.

Research Interest

Nanomaterials, NEMS/MEMS, Multiferroics, Ferrofluids