Department of Applied Sciences

Academic Experience

Dr Bharti Arora has been associated with the university since July, 2013. She has more than nine years of teaching experience including Hansraj College and Lady Irwin College (University of Delhi) in past. She is actively involved in teaching Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Engineering Chemistry, Environmental Studies and Green Technology at NCU. She also received an appreciation for excellent classroom teaching by Head, ASIC Accreditation, UK (Prof John Wilson) in 2016 at NCU.

Fellowships/Awards

A meritorious student throughout from University of Delhi, Dr Arora has been awarded “UGC Research Fellowship in Science for Meritorious Students”. She was also selected for the “Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships for Doctoral Research Studies” in 2008. She has been honored as “Bentham Science Ambassador” from “India” by Bentham Publishers (2019). She has received Elsevier Reviewer Recognition as Certificate of appreciation for reviewing articles for Cleaner materials (Elsevier) journal.

Research Areas/ Interest

Biophysical and Biochemical aspects of Nucleic Acids, Structural Biology, Biopolymers, Ionic liquids, Bioinformatics, Water Purification, Phase change materials, Nanocomposites, Carbon Nanotubes.

She is well acquainted with UV-visible & Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy, Gel Electrophoresis and Bioinformatic softwares/tools.

Research Guidance: Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress- 01

International Collaborations: National University Corporation Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Research Publications

Dr Arora has published seven research papers (WOS /SCOPUS) with a total SCI impact factor of 16.54. She has also published seven chapters in books (WOS /SCOPUS) and one Scopus indexed conference proceeding. She has participated and presented papers in several national and international conferences. Click here for publications

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Administrative Roles & Others

Besides her excellent teaching ability, Dr Arora is also Incharge for NIRF ranking and NAAC accreditation NCU committee. She is also a member of Institutional Innovation Council driven by MOE.

She has also organized many guest lectures by eminent scientists from India and abroad. She also organized a National Workshop on “MEMS Design, Technology & Application” from 1^st-3^rd March, 2015 in collaboration with IITD (Co-Coordinator: Dr Bharti Arora, NCU & Coordinator: Dr Madhusudan Singh, IITD). She is actively involved in delivering invited talks and has participated in panel discussions. She has also written a blog available at https://medium.com/@universitythenorthcap/why-study-chemistry-at-ncu-ba4d9557f7c4.

She is actively involved in organizing chemistry events and educational visits for students including celebration of International year of chemistry 2019. Click here for details

Certifications

"Design the Thinking" Certification, FinTech School of Design Thinking, Chennai

Scientific Associations

She is a Life member of DNA Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, Society of Biological Chemists (India), Indian Biophysical Society & Chemical Research Society of India. She is a reviewer for Cleaner Materials (Elsevier), Nature Scientific Reports (IF 4.011), PLOS One (IF 2.776) & Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry Journal (IF= 2.556), Environment, Development and Sustainability, Springer Journal (2.191).

 

Dr Aditya Sharma has been awarded her PhD in Chemistry from IIT Delhi. She has pursued her doctoral research work in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, as a CSIR- Junior and Senior research fellow. She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD. She continually qualified UGC-CSIR-NET/JRF exam in Chemistry (Dec. 2007,  June 2008 and Dec. 2008). She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD.

Research Publications

Aditya has published twelve research articles, all in SCI-indexed, peer reviewed international journals (ACS, RSC, AIP and Elsevier publications) having an aggregate SCI impact factor of about 50 (open link for publications). The article entitled “Nanopatterned Cadmium Selenide Langmuir–Blodgett Platform for Leukemia Detection” authored by her, was a research highlight of Nature India & IITD website. She is currently guiding four PhD students at NCU (3 independently and 1 jointly).

Research Project
Project investigator in DST-SERB funded research project (25th July, 2016 to 24th June, 2019).
Title of the project: Lateral Flow Assay Strip Sensor Development for Non–Invasive Point of Care Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection”
Sanctioned by: Department of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering Research Board) under Young Scientist scheme.
Sanctioned amount: Rs 42.02 lakh

Research Expertise/Areas of specialization
Hands on experience on UV-Visible and FTIR spectrometer, Electrochemical analyzer (CV, DPV and EIS), Langmuir Blodgett trough, Contact angle meter, Zetasizer and Gel Electrophoresis setup.
Her areas of research interest include Nanomaterial synthesis, Thin film deposition, Biosensor development, Lateral flow assay, Cancer and  Urinary Tract Infection diagnosis.

Membership/Association with Professional Bodies/Societies
Life member of Materials Research Society of India, Chemical Research Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, and Indian Biophysical Society

She has brilliant academic record and has been an outstanding student throughout her studies. She secured first position in Post Graduation. She was Topper in Tenth standard in all streams in school. She had won cash prize and Scholarship in Science Scholarship Competition . She Assisted the Food Committee in the ‘International Conference on Operator Theory and Related Areas’ held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, during January 9-12, 2008. Her research domain includes Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.She earned her doctoral degree at the Department of Mathematics, Delhi University on the topic ‘Generalised Reed-Muller Codes’. She is presently interested in exploring new dimensions in her field . She has presented 3 research papers in national and international conferences.

She has published several research papers in reputed international journals including SCI journals. She is associated with the University since Jan 2017. She is member of various reputed Mathematical Societies including American Mathematical society , Life member of Indian Science Congress Association, Life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Life member of Indian Mathematical Society . She has almost 10 years teaching and 10 years of research experience.

Areas of Research: Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.

Research Records: Publications in International Journals: 9
International Conferences attended : 5
National Conferences attended: 12
Reviewer in reputed journals MATH SciNet and Zentrablatt
Mathematics subject expert in CBSE UDAAN project since 2015

Dr. Rajni holds a very attractive academic record throughout the course of her study. She has done her Ph.D in the field of Numerical Analysis in IIT Roorkee in the year 2018. She completed her graduation and post graduation from CCS university, Meerut. During the period of research work, she has published various research papers in the international journals of repute. She qualified National Eligibility Test (JRF) in 2012. She got DST travel award for presenting a research paper in international conference on applied mathematics ICOME-2017 held in Turkey.

Workshops and Seminars:

Computational Techniques for Differential equations with Matlab (CTDE-2015), July 02-06,2015, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee.

International Conference on Mathematics and Applications (ICMA-2017), D.U. April, 26-28, 2017, presented a paper entitled “A Bernstein Polynomial Differential Quadrature Method for Numerical Solutions of Kawahara Equation”.

Annual Foundation School (AFS-I) organized in IIT Delhi by National Center for Mathematics (A joint center of TIFR and IIT Bombay), December 04-30, 2017.

Areas of Interest: Numerical solutions of PDEs, Numerical Methods, B-spline functions, Berstein Polynomials

Dr Arjun Singh received M.Sc degree in Physics from University of Delhi in 2007. He completed M.Tech. from Thapar University Patiala followed by PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2016. After two year of postdoctoral experience from India and abroad, he joined as assistant professor of physics in the Dept. of Applied Science, North Cap University, Gurugram India.

He is an experimental physicist and his research interest include printable and flexible semiconductor devices such as polymer solar cell, perovskite solar cell and thin film transistors. Dr Singh has published 13 research papers in internal peer reviewed journals. He has actively participated in 7- national and international conferences to present his work.

Area of expertise:

Semiconductor devices (polymer Solar cell, perovskite solar cell, OLEDs Thin film transistors (TFT’s) )

Research Publications-13

Research work presented in Conferences – 07

Dr. Chetna has received her PhD degree from The NorthCap University, Gurugram. She is a Gold Medallist in M.Tech (Nanotechnology) from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, (RGPV) Bhopal. She has secured 2nd position in order of Merit in her M.Sc. (Physics) from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. She has 9 years of teaching and Research experience. Her research interest is mainly on synthesis and fabrication of nanomaterials and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Chetna was also involved in cultural activities during her college, she has won second and third prize at university level drama competition in youth festival in year 2004 and 2005.

Publications
• Number of Publications- 11
• Conferences- 12
Sponsored Project
• Title: Polymer nanocomposite based solar cell
• Role: Principal Investigator
• Funding Agency: Women Scientist Scheme-A (WOS-A), Department of Science and Technology (DST)
• Project Duration and Amount: 3 years and 24,30,000/-
Projects
• Structural, Optical and Transport properties of InxGa1-xAs/GaAs QW and InAs/InxGa1-xAs/GaAs DWELL structures, SCLS, RRCAT, Indore (M.P).
• Synthesis and characterization of CdS Quantum dot, School of Nanotechnology (SONT), Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, (M.P).
Study of Optical Properties of CdS Quantum Dot Thin Film, Nanomaterial Laboratory, Department of Physics, UTD Barkatullah University, Bhopal.

Dr. Pooja Punyani received Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2021. She pursued M.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in August 2021. Presently, she is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.
She has worked on the thesis titled "On Changes in Frobenius Number" in the realm of Combinatorial Number Theory. Her research interests include Number Theory and Algebra. She obtained full travel grant from CSIR to present paper at reputed international conference in USA and was awarded highly student’s recommended Talk at La Trobe, Australia. She was also an invited speaker at CANT 2021. She has published papers in refereed international journals. Her papers can be found here.

She received National Board of Higher Mathematics, DAE, Govt. of India, research fellowship 2013 to 2018. She is Gate AIR -142 and secured highest score in B.Sc. Math (Hons.) at her alma mater Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.

During her Ph.D. at IITD, she gained teaching assistant (TA) experience of 5.8 years. She was involved with the undergraduate and postgraduate subjects like Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory and Advance Number Theory. She also served as a TA for Algebra at Annual Foundation School I and Core team Member of Regional Mathematical Olympiad, Delhi.

She is actively involved as a volunteer with The Art of living Foundation since 2014.

Mr. Sudesh Kumar joined as Sports Officer in Sports department on 02nd February 2015. After completion of M. P. Ed in Physical education from (EIILM) Sikkim University. Mr. Sudesh Kumar pursuing Ph.D. from SUNRISE University Alwar , RAJASTHAN . He played 33rdNational games in Netball (Guwahati). He was an International Empire of Netball game Singapore 2005 and INDO-PAK International Netball Series 2005. He has done certificate course of Netball Coach from NIS Gandhi Nagar 2005. Umpiring in 5thAsian Youth Netball Championship in India (Bangalore) 2006, INDIA V/s SRI LANKA Women Netball Series 2009, and 34thNational Games in netball as umpire (Jharkhand) 2011 and Technical Official in7thAsian Youth Netball Championship in India (Thyagaraj Stadium 2010). Having 18 year experience in teaching and coaching to students.

Dr. Anil Kumar Jharotia is the Librarian of The NorthCap University. He has 25 years’ experience in his professional area. He has passed master’s in Library & Information Science, M.A. Public Administration, Aacharya (M.A. in Sanskrit), PGDM (Marketing), M.Phil and PhD. He is author and editor of 9 books, and he contributed 92 Book Chapters/Papers/Articles in reputed Journals and Conference Proceedings.

His Vidwan score is 9.3 and he has presented a number of papers in Conferences. He organized many Library events like Conference, Seminar, Webinar, Book Exhibition and Workshop. He is Chief Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Library Science, Associate Editor, Journal of Library & Information Communication Technology, Editorial Board member and Reviewer of many reputed Journals. He is Life Member of Library Professionals Foundation, Indian Library Association, SALIS, Library Professionals Association and MRES. He developed www.librarydotcom.webs.com weblog. He received many awards for his outstanding performance in the area of Library and Information Science namely Shan-E- Granthalay Sammaan-2022, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan National Honor 2021, Librarians Award-2021, MRES-Emerging Scholar award, Award of Excellence, Digital Excellence Award, Mitra Award, Best Paper Present Award, Best Information Service Award by DRDO & IASLIC, Best Publicity Librarian Award etc.