Faculty

Dr.  Aldrin Antony

HOD

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Aldrin received his M.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He was a post-doctoral fellow at ENEA, Italy and Research Scientist at the Grup d’ Energia Solar of the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was a senior scientist at IIT Bombay from 2012 o 2019. Dr. Aldrin has received international postdoctoral fellowships by ICS-UNIDO, ICTP-UNESCO. He was the distinguished ‘National Solar Science Fellow’ of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India. Dr. Aldrin has over 20 years of research experience in material science and works extensively in state-of-the-art solar cell fabrication. He has supervised 4 Ph.D. theses and published over 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has 5 patents to his credit. He is also a consultant to different equipment manufacturing companies for product design, fabrication and process development. He is also the Head of the Department of Physics and the Honorary Director of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials at CUSAT.
Academic Experience
  • Bsc Physics (None - None)
  • M.Sc. Physics (None - None)
  • Phd (None - None)
Academic Administrative Experience
  • Member - Curriculum Steering Committee, General Education (None - None) - Curriculum Steering Committee Member, General Education, Govt of Kerala
  • Member - Board of Studies, CUSAT (None - None) - Member Board of Studies , Faculty of Science
  • Member - Research committee, CUSAT (None - None) - Research committee Member, Inter University Centre for Nanomaterials and Devices, CUSAT
  • Member - Technical Committee, CUSAT (None - None) - Member, Technical Committee, KIIFB purchase of Laboratory Equipments, CUSAT
  • Coordinator - National Renewable Energy Fellowship of MNRE, MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY (None - None) - Coordinator, National Renewable Energy Fellowship of MNRE
Work Experience
  • Head, Department Of Physics, Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (July 13, 2023 - None)
  • Honorary Director,, Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials, Cochin University of Science and Technology (Sept. 8, 2020 - None)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (Dec. 2, 2019 - None)
  • Senior Project Executive Officer, Investigator, National Centre for Photovoltaics Research and Education (NCPRE), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (Aug. 16, 2017 - Nov. 22, 2019)
  • Visiting Scientist, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (June 27, 2016 - July 6, 2016)
  • Visiting Scientist, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (July 9, 2015 - July 14, 2015)
  • Visiting Scientist, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Sept. 26, 2014 - Oct. 6, 2014)
  • Visiting Scientist, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (March 11, 2013 - March 16, 2013)
  • Faculty, Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Aug. 1, 2012 - July 31, 2017)
  • Research Scientist And Team Leader, Grup d’ Energia Solar, Department of Applied Physics and Optics, University of Barcelona, Spain (June 15, 2006 - May 31, 2012)
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, ENEA , Portici (NAPOLI), ITALY (Nov. 28, 2005 - June 14, 2006)
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, ENEA , Portici (NAPOLI), ITALY (Oct. 20, 2004 - Oct. 14, 2005)