Dibyaranjan Rout obtained his PhD degree in Physics from IIT, Madras and subsequently joined postdoctoral position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Korea. He also served as a Research Assistant Professor in the same institute for 2 years. To his credit, he has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals, handled 2 Govt. funded projects (DST, NALCO) and filed 2 patents. Under his supervision, 3 PhDs and 10 master thesis are awarded. He is having collaboration with some premium institutes (IITs, RRCAT, IISc, IMMT, DIAT, BARC) in India.
Dr. Rout's research interest encompasses the structure-process-property relationships exhibited by functional/smart materials particularly lead-free Piezoelectric /multiferroic / high-Tc relaxor materials. He is keen to design and develop such novel and eco-friendly materials in the form of bulk ceramics, nanoparticles, nanostructures, thick films, fibers, and nanocomposites using ease and cost-effective processes (solid state, reaction, soft chemical, spray pyrolysis, electrospinning) with adequate figures of merit suitable for industrial applications (specially actuators, MLCC, energy storage/harvesting, dye degradation).