Curriculum Vitae

Name: Dr. Rajinder Kaur

Date of Birth: August 4, 1992

E-mail id: adnbah@r.postjobfree.com

adnbah@r.postjobfree.com

Contact: Vill-Mohanpur, P.O-Mohanpur, Distt-Tarn Taran, 143409, Punjab, India

Mob: +91-987*******, +91-991*******

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=efmr5g0AAAAJ&hl=en Educational Background:

Ph.D. Degree Awarded in February 2021 from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. Topic: Synthesis and Characterization of Strontium Tellurite and Lanthanum Tellurite Glasses and Glass-ceramics.

Ph.D. Course Work from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, the year 2016 with First Division.

M.Sc. Physics, from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, the year 2015 with first division

B.Sc. Computer Science, from Khalsa College of Women, Amritsar, India, the year 2013 with first division

Language Skills:

English: Professional Proficiency (7/9 bands in IELTS) Punjabi: Native Proficiency

Hindi: Native Proficiency

Persian: Additional

Employment:

Worked as a teacher (July 2015-June 2016) at Rashtriya Bal Shiksha Kender Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, India.

Worked as project fellow (August 2017-August 2020) at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India.

Awards/Honors:

Recipient of a fellowship from Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), Delhi, India for doing research (August 2017-July 2020).

Recipient of UGC-UPE (Material science) fellowship for doing research towards an advanced degree (Ph.D.) (August 2016-July 2017).

Received Best poster award in Recent Advances in Fundamental and Applied Sciences, 2019, at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. Research Interest:

Synthesis and Characterization of Tellurite-based glass, anti-glass, glass-ceramics, crystalline and glass-composites doped with metal oxides.

Synthesis and Characterization of Reduced Graphene Oxide.

Structure-Property Correlations using Synchrotron radiation (High energy X-ray diffraction and Neutron Diffraction).

Diffraction Data modeling using Molecular simulations (Reverse Monte Carlo and Rietveld refinement).

Instrumental Skills:

Acquainted with different

Structural characterization techniques: High Energy X-ray diffraction, Neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, Magic Angle Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Fourier-transform Infrared spectroscopy, Micro-X-ray fluorescence

Optical studies: Photoluminescence spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, Confocal microscopy

Thermal characterizations: Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Hands-on experience in DSC, Raman spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy and confocal microscopy

Research Projects:

MSc. Project, January-June 2015, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India Dissertation Title: “Structural and Optical Properties of Graphene”.

Project Fellow, August 2017-2020, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India Project Title: “Tailoring of photoluminescence properties of rare-earth-doped tellurite glasses by swift heavy ion radiation”.

Research Supervision and Leadership Experience:

Volunteered to help nine postgraduate students in the Sensors and glass physics laboratory at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, for their project experiments and thesis writing.

Computer Skills:

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office

Diploma course in Data care management

Certificate course in Data care management

Knowledge of Reverse Monte Carlo Simulations and MCGR Program

Acquainted with PDFgetX2 and PDFgetX3

Proficient user of Origin Pro

Learned programming languages: C, C++ and python

Operating systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

(All publications are listed in UGC- Care List Group II) 1. Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, Marina González-Barriuso, Fernando González, and Banghao Chen, "Structural, optical and thermal properties of glass and anti- glass phases in strontium tellurite and borotellurite systems doped with europium," Materials Research Bulletin 106, 288-295 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2018.06.020 (Impact factor: 4.019) 2. Nupur Gupta, Hirdesh, Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, Satbir Singh, and Bipin Kumar Gupta, "Spatially resolved X-ray fluorescence, Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy of Eu

3+

/Er

3+

doped tellurite glasses and anti-

glasses," Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 513, 24-35 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2019.01.039 (Impact factor: 2.929) 3. Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, Hirdesh, A-C Dippel, Olof Gutowski, Fernando González, and Marina González-Barriuso, "Structure of strontium tellurite glass, anti-glass and crystalline phases by high-energy X-ray diffraction, reverse Monte Carlo and Rietveld analysis," Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science: Crystal Engineering and Materials 76 (1), 108-121 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520620000025 (Impact factor: 6.732) 4. Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, “Photoluminescence and thermal properties of trivalent ion-doped lanthanum tellurite anti-glass and glass composite samples”, Journal of Luminescence, 225, 117375- 117386 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2020.117375 (Impact factor: 3.280) 5. Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, Marina González-Barriuso, Fernando González,

“Structural, thermal and optical characterization of co-existing glass and anti- glass phases of xLa2O3-(100-x)TeO2 and 2TiO2-xLa2O3-(98-x)TeO2 systems,” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 540, 120***-****** (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2020.120117 (Impact factor: 2.929) 6. Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, Margit Fábián, “Neutron diffraction investigation of strontium tellurite glass, anti-glass and crystalline phases,” Phase Transitions 93(10), 1016-1029 (2020).

https://doi.org/10.1080/01411594.2020.1832225 (Impact factor: 1.004) 7. Navjot Kaur, Atul Khanna, Rajinder Kaur, Ruchika and Deeksha Salhotra,

“Synthesis and characterization of vanadium and iron tellurite glasses for applications as thermal sensors,” Solid State Sciences, 114, 106564 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2021.106564 (Impact factor: 2.434) 8. Atul Khanna, Rajinder Kaur and Hirdesh, “Temperature Effect on the Glass Forming Ability of Strontium Tellurite and Lead Tellurite Melts,” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 881, 160595 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.160595 (Impact factor: 4.650) 9. Rajinder Kaur, Ramandeep Kaur, Atul Khanna, Fernando González, “Structural and thermal properties of vanadium tellurite glasses”, AIP Conference Proceedings, AIP Publishing, 070028, (2018).

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5028826 (Impact factor: 0.40) 10. Rajinder Kaur, Atul Khanna, Structural and Thermal Properties of Magnesium Tellurite Glasses, AIP Conference Proceedings, AIP Publishing, 2265, 030238

(2020). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0017748 (Impact factor: 0.40) Conferences/Workshops Attended:

GIAN course entitled “Local and Nano-Structure Determination of Complex Nanostructured Materials using scattering methods” held at Guru Nanak Dev University from Sept. 29

th

to 2

nd

, 2017

Theme Meeting on X-Ray Micro-Imaging Using Synchrotron Radiation and Its applications, September 16-19, 2017 at RRCAT, Indore.

47

th

National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC47) June 19-22, 2019 DAE Convention Centre, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai.

Paper presentation at 62

nd

Solid State Symposium at Bhabha Atomic Research

Centre, Mumbai on 26-30 December 2017.

Poster presentation at National Conference on Functional Materials for Device Applications (NCFMDA-2018), March 9-10, 2018 at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

Poster presentation at International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials science and Technology (ICMST 2018), October 10-13, 2018 at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvanthapuram.

Oral presentation at National Conference on Non-Linear Phenomena in Physics, March 1-2, 2019 at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

Poster presentation at Recent Advances in Fundamental and Applied Sciences

(RAFAS 2019), November 5-6, 2019, at Lovely Professional University, Punjab.

Poster presentation at 64

th

DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, December 18-

22, 2019, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

Oral presentation at 23

rd

Punjab Science Congress on Emerging Trends in Science

& Technology for Sustainable Development, February 7-9, 2020 at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal (Sangrur), Punjab.

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