Current Team (LVPD)

Dr. Lalit Mohan Awasthi

Name

Dr. Lalit Mohan Awasthi

Designation

Scientific Officer - G and Head of LVPD Section
Associate Professor, HBNI, Mumbai

E-mail

awasthi@ipr.res.in

Telephone

+91-79-2396-2180 (Desk) / 2237 (Lab)

Research Area

Experimental Plasma Physics, Plasma transport and turbulence relevant to fusion and magnetospheric plasmas. Presently involved in the study of Electron Temperature Gradient (ETG) induced plasma turbulence, relevant to fusion plasmas and Whistler turbulence relevant to magnetospheric and fusion plasmas.


Dr. Ritesh Sugandhi

Name

Dr. Ritesh Sugandhi

Designation

Scientific Officer - F
M. Tech. Guide (Faculty of Engineering Sciences), HBNI, Mumbai

E-mail

ritesh@ipr.res.in

Telephone

+91-79-2396-4010 (Desk) / 2237 (Lab)

Research Area

Machine control system, Process automation and Data analysis


Mr. Pankaj Srivastava

Name

Mr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava

Designation

Scientific Officer - E

E-mail

pkumar@ipr.res.in

Telephone

+91-79-2396-4125 (Desk) / 2237 (Lab)

Research Area

Deliver end to end solutions from front-end electronics to the data acquisition system.


Mr. Amulya Sanyasi

Name

Dr. Amulya Kumar Sanyasi

Designation

Scientific Officer - D

E-mail

amulya@ipr.res.in

Telephone

+91-79-2396-2037(Desk) / 2237 (Lab)

Research Area

Plasma turbulence investigations of LVPD plasma.


Collaborators Over the Years

Scientific collaborators:

Prof. P. K. kaw

Name

Prof. P. K. Kaw

Designation

Senior Professor and Founder Director, IPR (Demised)

Research Area

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Prof. S. K. Mattoo

Name

Prof. S. K. Mattoo

Designation

Senior Professor (Retired)

Research Area

His research interests spread over a large domain ranging from design of high temperature diagnostics for fusion plasma devices viz., ADITYA and SST-1 to fundamental plasma experiments. He has also worked in basic plasma device called BETA. He was instrumental in bringing LVPD for carrying out fundamental studies,unfolding physical phenomenon of relevance to magnetospheric and fusion plasmas.


Prof. Raghvendra Singh

Name

Prof. Raghvendra Singh

Designation

Senior Professor (Retired)
Senior Researcher, NFRI, Republic of Korea (2012-present)

Research Area

His field of specialization is Turbulent Transport in Fusion Devices. He is an active plasma physics researcher.


Dr. Ratneshwar Jha

Name

Dr. Ratneshwar Jha

Designation

Senior Professor (Retired)

Research Area

His area of research is Plasma Diagnostics and investigations on plasma transport and turbulence, relevant to fusion and magnetospheric plasmas.


Dr. G. Ravi

Name

Dr. G. Ravi

Designation

Scientific Officer - F

Research Area

Plasma electron-magneto Hydrodynamics (EMHD), Plasma Diagnostics, Plasma Wave interaction, Whistler waves and Plasma Torch.


Dr. Sushil Kumar Singh

Name

Dr. Sushil Kumar Singh

Designation

Scientist at PALS Laser Facility, Institute of Plasma Physics & Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
Ex. Postdoctoral Researcher, ELI Beam lines, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

Research Area

Gamma rays and bremsstrahlung generation in laser-plasma interaction, magnetic field generation with capacitor coil targets, Laboratory generated secondary sources (e.g. photones, electrons and neutral particles), Plasma diagnostics and detectors, Plasma optics, Hot-electron transport in inertial confinement fusion, Experiments and theory for turbulence and transport phenomenon in laboratory and tokamark plasma, Experimental investigation of Electron Temperature Gredient (ETG) turbulence.


Dr. Rameshwar Singh

Name

Dr. Rameshwar Singh

Designation

Ex. Postdoctoral Researcher, IPR.
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher — University of California San Diego

Research Area

Involved in research on magnetic fusion energy with particular interests in zonal flows, momentum transport, turbulence, instabilities, and shearing effects in tokamak plasmas. He has studied the generation of intrinsic rotation, geodesic acoustic modes, and shell models of turbulence. He uses both fluid and gyro-kinetic frameworks in his theoretical approaches.


Dr. Prince Alex

Name

Dr. Prince Alex

Designation

Ex. Post Doctoral Fellow, IPR.
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Milan .

Research Area

Turbulence and transport in plasma, Plasma parameter control, Nonlinear Dynamics in Plasma, Double Layers in Plasma (DL).


Dr. Prabhakar Srivastav

Name

Dr. Prabhakar Srivastava

Designation

Ex. Post Doctoral Fellow, IPR.
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher - University of West Virginia.

Research Area

Experimental investigation of plasma transport due to electrostatic and electromagnetic fluctuations for particle and heat transport.


Dr. Devendra Sharma Scientific Officer - F Associated with LVPD.
Dr. Anitha V. P. Scientific Officer - G Associated with LVPD till 2010.
Dr. T. A. Santosh Kumar Asst. Scientist, UW, Madison(USA) Associated with LVPD till 1999.
Dr. Ajai Kumar Professor (Retired) Associated with LVPD till 1998.

Technical collaborators:

Mr. Ujjwal BaruaScientific Officer - HAssociated with LVPD till 2002.
Mr. Paresh PatelScientific Officer - GAssociated with LVPD till 2002.
Mr. Gaurav PatelEngineer - SDAssociated with LVPD till 2002.
Mr. Bharat DoshiScientific Officer - GAssociated with LVPD till 2002.
Mr. Malleswar RaoEngineer - SDAssociated with LVPD till 2002.
Mr. Siddartha Seth Engineer - SD Associated with LVPD till 2002.
Mr. Kranti Kumar Scientific Staff Associated with LVPD till 1999.