>Rathfelder: removed Category:21st-century physicists; added Category:21st-century Indian physicists using HotCat

2021-06-30T22:40:58Z

removed Category:21st-century physicists; added Category:21st-century Indian physicists using HotCat

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Vinay Gupta
| image = VinayGupta.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|3|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Rajasthan]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| residence = [[Delhi]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Materials science]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Aichi Institute of Technology]] | [[Kyushu University]] | Hindustan Electro Graphite | [[National Physical Laboratory of India|Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE]] | [[Alan J. Heeger]] Lab UCSB, USA }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Government College, Ajmer]] | [[Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University]] | [[CNRS]] | [[National Physical Laboratory of India|NPL]] | [[Kyoto University]] | [[Technische Universität Ilmenau]] }}
| doctoral_advisor =
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on organic solar cells, carbon nanotubes arrays and [[Förster resonance energy transfer]]
| awards = <nowiki>2015 Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award &
2017 </nowiki>[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]
}}
'''Vinay Gupta''' (born 31 March 1972) is an Indian materials scientist and a former senior scientist at the Physics of Energy Harvesting department of the [[National Physical Laboratory of India]]. Known for his studies on organic solar cells, carbon nanotubes arrays and [[Förster resonance energy transfer]], Gupta is a former [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2017.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=535 |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:Aichi Institute of Technology - panoramio (7).jpg|thumb|left|Aichi Institute of Technology]]
Born on 31 March 1972 in the Indian state of [[Rajasthan]], Vinay Gupta did his higher secondary studies under the State Education Board and earned his BSc and MSc degrees from [[Government College, Ajmer]] in 1990 and 1992 respectively.<ref name="Biographical Information - Vinay Gupta">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nplindia.in/users/guptavinaynplindiaorg |title=Biographical Information - Vinay Gupta |date=2017-11-03 |website=National Physical Laboratory |access-date=2017-11-03}}</ref> Subsequently, he enrolled for his doctoral studies at [[Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University]], securing a PhD in 1997. His doctoral work in Transport in 2D systems were divided among two institutions, starting with [[CNRS]] during 1992–94 and later at [[National Physical Laboratory of India]] during 1995–97. He also did post-doctoral work on [[Lithium battery|Lithium-ion battery]] at Kyoto University as a JSPS fellow between 1998 and 2000 and at [[Aichi Institute of Technology]] from 2000 to 2003. The same year, he moved to Germany as an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]] at [[Technische Universität Ilmenau]] to work on [[carbon nanotube]] and [[graphene]] where he stayed till 2004. His next assignment was at [[Kyushu University]] as a visiting associate professor and he returned to India to take up the position of the deputy general manager at Hindustan Electro Graphite, Bhopal on the [[New Year's Day]] of 2008. His stint at Bhopal lasted only a week and he went back to Kyushu University to resume his duties as a visiting faculty, a post he held for two months. In June 2008, he joined his old institution, National Physical Laboratory. Following differences with the institute administration, he resigned from National Physical Laboratory in June 2018 to take up a position of Research Associate at Khalifa University.<ref name="CSIR lab scientist quits in setback for talent-retention efforts">{{Cite web |title=CSIR lab scientist quits in setback for talent-retention efforts |publisher=Businessline |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/csir-lab-scientist-quits-in-setback-for-talent-retention-efforts/article24754031.ece }}</ref> In between, he had a short stint as an Indo-US fellow at the laboratory of [[Alan J. Heeger]], a [[Nobel Laureate in Physics]], at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] from August 2012 to July 2013,<ref name="Biographical Information - Vinay Gupta" /> and visiting Professor at Shizuoka University, Japan from October 2016 to December 2016.

== Research ==
[[File:FRET Jablonski diagram.svg|thumb|FRET [[Jablonski diagram]]]]
Gupta is known to have made notable contributions in the fields of [[organic solar cells]], [[carbon nanotubes]] and [[Förster resonance energy transfer]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=535 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> His efforts are reported to have assisted in translating the science into viable technological products.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=7zZMld0AAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> and [[ResearchGate]], an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 90 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vinay_Gupta26 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} He has also delivered plenary or keynote speeches at various seminars and conferences<ref name="Speakers">{{Cite web |url=http://mysrm.srmuniv.ac.in/iconn2017/Speakers-list |title=Speakers |date=2017-11-04 |website=SRM University |access-date=2017-11-04}}</ref><ref name="ISCAS 2017">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dtu.ac.in/Web/programme/conference/ISCAS2017.pdf |title=ISCAS 2017 |date=2017-11-04 |website=Delhi Technological University |access-date=2017-11-04}}</ref> and is the coordinator of the pre-conference workshop on ''Thin Film Solar Cells'' scheduled to be held in November 2017, in connection with the "17th International Conference on Thin Films-2017 (ICTF-17)".<ref name="Pre-Conference Workshop on Thin Film Solar Cells">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ictf2017.in/images/Thin%20Film%20Solar%20Cells%20Workshop.pdf |title=Pre-Conference Workshop on Thin Film Solar Cells |date=2017-11-04 |website=ICTF |access-date=2017-11-04}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
Gupta has held three major research fellowships; JSPS fellowship of the [[Japan Society for the Promotion of Science]] (1998–2000), [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]]ship (2003–04),<ref name="Biographical Information - Vinay Gupta" /> and Indo-US IUSSTF fellowship (2012-2013). [[Marquis Who's Who]] included his biography in their 2002–03 edition and he received a certificate of appreciation from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2002. He was listed as the highest cited author by [[Elsevier (magazine)|Elsevier]] in 2006 and he was selected as one among the top 10 Indian scientists with the highest number of citations during the period 2010–14 by [[Thomson Reuters]] in 2015.<ref name="India’s highly cited scientists">{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2015/09/indias-highly-cited-scientists.html |title=India's highly cited scientists |date=September 19, 2015 |website=Nature |access-date=2017-11-03}}</ref> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Gupta the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2017.<ref name="10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize">{{Cite newspaper |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/10-scientists-receive-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-prize/article19758442.ece |title=10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |journal=The Hindu |date=September 26, 2017 |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal|last=V. Gupta, N. Chaudhary, R. Srivastava, G. D. Sharma, R. Bhardwaj, S. Chand|title=Luminscent Graphene Quantum Dots for Organic Photovoltaic Devices|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|date=2011|volume=133|issue=12|pages=9960–9963|doi=10.1002/anie.201106566|pmid=22318942}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Vinay Gupta, Vishal Bharti, Mahesh Kumar, Suresh Chand, Alan J. Heeger |title=Polymer–Polymer Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Significantly Boosts the Power Conversion Efficiency of Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells |journal=Advanced Materials |date=2015 |volume=27 |issue=30 |pages=4398–4404 |doi=10.1002/adma.201501275|pmid=26109435 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Vinay Gupta, Lai Fan Lai, Ram Datt, Suresh Chand, Alan J. Heeger, Guillermo C. Bazan, Surya Prakash Singh |title=Dithienogermole-based solution-processed molecular solar cells with efficiency over 9% |journal=Chemical Communications |date=2016 |volume=52 |issue=55 |pages=8596–8599 |doi=10.1039/C6CC03998G|pmid=27321642 }}

== See also ==
* [[Solar cell]]
{{portal|India|Physics}}

== Notes ==
{{reflist|group=note|2}}

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.pressreader.com/india/the-hindu/20170927/281887298499437 |title=Ten Scientists Win Laurels |date=2017-11-04 |website=Press Reader |access-date=2017-11-04}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://pubs.rsc.org/en/results?searchtext=Author%3AVinay%20Gupta |title=Author search results |date=2017-11-04 |website=Royal Society of Chemistry |access-date=2017-11-04}}

{{SSBPST recipients in Physical Science}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gupta, Vinay}}
[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian physicists]]
[[Category:Alexander von Humboldt Fellows]]
[[Category:CNRS scientists]]
[[Category:Technische Universität Ilmenau faculty]]
[[Category:Indian scientific authors]]
[[Category:Indian materials scientists]]
[[Category:Kyoto University alumni]]
[[Category:Kyushu University faculty]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science]]
[[Category:Scientists from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)]]

Vinay Gupta - Revision history

>Rathfelder: removed Category:21st-century physicists; added Category:21st-century Indian physicists using HotCat