Dr PRAMOD H BORSE

Scientist G | Centre for Solar Energy Materials

Dr Pramod H. Borse is PhD in Physics from Department of Physics in “Savitribai Phule Pune University” (SPPU), India formerly Pune University and has made several contributions in Applied Physics and its utilization in green hydrogen energy research. He has been working in nanomaterials for various applications since 1992, which includes his MSc thesis, with the work on nanophase alumina. His PhD thesis was on preparation of photo-luminescent nanoparticle sulphide material systems. After that he undertook the job of Post graduate teaching and research in SPPU. Later, he spent his professional time (2001-2008) at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea in various capacities. Presently he is working at senior position as a Scientist-G in DST, India laboratory i.e. International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, (ARCI), Hyderabad, India. He has been, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), senior member of OPTICA formerly Optical society of America (OSA), and IEEE societies. He has been working towards developing Solar Hydrogen and Sensor technology. In India, he has been an elected fellow for Telangana Academy of Sciences (TAS) and fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (MAS). He has undertaken research activities in the frontier areas such as Nanomaterial synthesis of semiconductor and oxides systems, Solar energy materials, Solar Hydrogen production materials, IOT-based Sensor fabrication , X-ray based nano-film processing, Photocatalysis, Thermoelectric material, Condensed Matter Physics etc. He has theoretically designed several new visible light photocatalysts and experimentally synthesized around fifty different type of efficient oxide, sulfide, composite, diode configured visible light photocatalysts. He has developed various ferrite and 2D metal chalcogenide-based materials systems. He has also developed a rapid nano-crystal ferrite methodology for hydrogen production as well as magnetic applications. He has also developed opto-electronic and gas sensors for commercial applications. He has worked on number of international projects those are sponsored by POSCO steel, Samsung Electronics, General Motors. His Scopus Citation is 5081 and h-index is 36, and has published more than 120 SCI Journal articles with high impact factor journals. Similarly, his Goggle scholar citation index rates to 6209, h-index 39 and i10-index as 78. He has also published 8 book chapters. He has prepared 3 Indian patents and two India patent are granted.

Research Areas

Energy Materials: Solar Electrocatalysis of water, Luminescent, Solar, Thermoelectric, Magnetic 
Renewable Energy generation, Sensors, Environment Agriculture Sensors 
Thin-film deposition: Physical, Chemical, Radiation(synchrotron/laser) 
Assisted nano-material methods, Quantum materials synthesis
Condensed Matter Physics – Materials modeling by computational (DFT) physics 
Technology development: Sensors Plus-IOT, Photo/ Electrodes for green hydrogen production 

Highest Qualification
PhD Physics
Other Qualifications
BSc MSc, Post Doctoral Fellow
Awards and Honours

• Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) FRSC 2023
• Elected Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences FTAS 2019
• Elected Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences FMAS 2018 
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, POSTECH, S.Korea, 2001
• Senior Member Optical Society of America(OSA) (since 2020)
• Senior Member IEEE society -2020

Professional Affiliations

• Associate Editor of Frontiers in Sensors (2021- present)
• Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences (TAS) -2019 (Awarded Jan 2021)
• Senior Member Optical Society of America(OSA) (since 2020)
• Senior Member IEEE society -2020
• Life Member Sensor research society of India (SRS) - 2019
• Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (MAS) since Dec 2018
• Life Member of Indian Physics Association (IPA) 
• Life member Material Research Society of India (MRSI) 
• Life member Solar Energy Society of India (SESI)
• Life Member of Indian society for electro analytical chemistry 
• Special Member of International Solar Energy Society (since 2009)
• Special Member of Optical Society of America(OSA) (since 2009)
• OSI Fellow, Optical society of India (since 2010)
• Member American Physical Society(APS) (since 2009)
• Member of International Electrochemical Society (since 2010)
• Member of Institute of Physics (IOP), UK(since 2009) 
• Section Editor for Handbook of Advanced Ceramics and Composites. Springer, 
Cham 2020