Professional Background

  • Queen's University, Canada (1995 – 1997)
  • Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Madrid, Spain, (1999 – 2000)
  • Instutut fuer Festkoerper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden, Germany (2003 –2004, 2006, 2007) and other Universities in Germany.
  • Durham University, UK, 2010, 2011
  • Osaka University, Japan, 2013, 2014

Educational Background

  • B.Sc. from Presidency College (Calcutta, India) (1986)
  • M.Sc. from Calcutta University, India (1988)
  • Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (1994)

Important awards and fellowship of academies

  • Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal - 2016
  • Awarded “Humboldt Research Fellowshipâ€� from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2003
  • Fellowship from the Ministerio de Educacion y Cultura, Spain, 1999
  • UK-India Education and Research Initiative Award - 2008
  • Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan, 2013, 2014

Main area of work

  • Magnetic Nanomaterials
  • Amorphous Magnetic Materials
  • Magnetocaloric Effect
  • Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors
  • Multiferroic Materials
  • Magnetic Non-Destructive Techniques
  • Theory of Magnetism

Significant recent publications

  • A. Ghosh and K. Mandal, “Effect of structural disorder on the magnetocaloric properties of Ni-Mn-Sn alloy, Applied Physics Letters, 104, (2014), 031905.
  • R. Rakshit, M. Mandal, M. Pal and K. Mandal, “Tuning of magnetic properties of CoFe2O4 nanoparticles through charge tranfer effectâ€� Applied Physics Letters, 104, (2014), 092412
  • A. K. Singh, D. Sarkar, G. G. Khan and K. Mandal, “Designing one dimensional Co-Ni/Co3O4-NiO core/shell nano-heterostructure electrodes for high-performance pseudocapacitor, Applied Physics Letters, 104, (2014) 133904.
  • M. Pal, R. Rakshit and K. Mandal, “Facile functionalization of Fe2O3 nanoparticles to induce inherent photoluminescence and excellent photocatalytic acivityâ€� Applied Physics Letters, 104, (2014), 233110.
  • R. Das, T. Sarkar and K. Mandal, “Multiferroic properties of Ba2+ and Gd3+ co-doped bismuth ferrite: magnetic, ferroelectric and impedance spectroscopic analysisâ€�, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 45, (2012), 455002.
  • S. Ghosh, G. G. Khan, B. Das and K. Mandal, “Vacancy-induced intrinsic d0 ferromagnetism and photoluminescence in potassium doped ZnO nanowiresâ€�, Journal of Applied Physics, 109, (2011) 123927.