Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Rajeev Kumar
Assistant Professor, Physics
M.Sc. , Ph.D. 		Contact Address
Permanent Address DL-221/1, Salt Lake Kolkata - 700091
Local Address BIT Mesra Campus
Phone (Office) 8902781883
Phone Residence 8902781883
Email Id kumarrajeev@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 1-Dec-2005
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 20 Years

Research : 12 Years

Individual: 12 Years
  Professional Background
  • Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi from September 2018 till date
  • Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology International Centre, Muscat from November 2010 to August 2018.
  • Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi from June 2010 to October 2010.
  • Senior Lecturer at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi from January 2009 to May 2010.
  • Lecturer at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi from December 2005 to December 2008.
  • Lecturer at Basirhat College, Basirhat, West Bengal from April 2001 to November 2005.
  Research Areas
 

Plasma Physics, Fundamental Physics.
  Award and Honours
 
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship under Indo-Italian collaboration program at the University of Pisa, Italy from January 01, 2007 to December 31, 2007
  • Received third prize for the presentation titled “Effect of temperature fluctuations and sheared plasma rotation on anomalous transport in the SINP tokamak” in the Young Physicists’ Colloquium – 2003, organized by the Indian Physical Society.
  • Received best poster award in the 17th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, organized by Plasma Science Society of India and Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
  Publications
 

 

  1. Real time measurement of plasma position in the SINP tokamak, S. K. Saha, A. Bal and
    R. Kumar, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 69 (1998) 4130.
  2. Circuit model analysis of eddy currents in the SINP tokamak, S. K. Saha and R. Kumar, Ind. J. of Pure and Applied Physics, 37 (1999) 495.
  3. Measurements of temperature fluctuations and anomalous transport in the SINP tokamak,
    R. Kumar and S. K. Saha, Pramana, Journal of Physics, 55 (2000) 713.
  4. Measurement of plasma diamagnetism in the SINP tokamak by a flux loop system inside the vacuum vessel, S. K. Saha, R. Kumar and A. K. Hui, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 72 (2001) 4289.
  5. Temperature fluctuations and turbulent transport at the edge of the SINP tokamak, R. Kumar and S. K. Saha, Nuclear Fusion, 43 (2003) 622.
  6. Effect of poloidal velocity shear on the edge fluctuations in the SINP tokamak, S. K. Saha and
    R. Kumar, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 46 (2004) 1065.
  7. “Galileo Galilei” (GG) a small satellite to test the equivalence principle of Galileo, Newton and Einstein, Anna M. Nobili et. al., Exp Astron 23 (2009) 689.