Sharika Nandan Kaul
Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Sharika Nandan Kaul obtained his MSc (1969), DIIT (1970) (Postgraduate Diploma) and PhD degrees (1974) in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He worked as a Scientific Officer in Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, before joining the Materials Science Programme at IIT Kanpur as a Research Scientist. He spent 6 years (1979-84) in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Scientific Collaborator at Ruhr University, Bochum and as a Max-Planck Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart. Professor Kaul has served as the Chairman (Dean) of the School of Physics at the University of Hyderabad (2000-03) and has held several visiting positions abroad.
Research Interest
Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science
