Bio-data of Indian visiting scholar Dr. I. JOHNSON Educational Qualifications : Degree Name of the Institution B.Sc. M.Sc. M.

Phil Ph.D P.D.F Subjects studied Year of Passing 1984 1990 1999 - 2004 2005 Marks 80 % Highly Commended Completed

St. Josephs College Physics, Affld. To Bharathidasan University Bharathidasan University Chemical Physics University of Coimbra Portugal & University of Blaise Pascal, PARIS Chemical Physics

Information about the Professional status : Teaching : Name of the Institution Designation Years of service St. Josephs College Lecturer, Associate Professor in Physics 1990 till today Director, Centre for Nano science and Applied Thermodynamics 2009 onwards St. Josephs college, BARD University, Trichy Coordinator , Physics dept. St. Josephs college--- DST, FIST Prog. (Rs. 40 Lakhs) 2009 onwards

Name of the awards received : National Awards : (1) National Merit Scholarship for School and College studies sponsored by Ministry of

International Awards and Fellowships :

Education and Culture, Govt. of India for 5 Consecutive years from 1983 to 1987. (2) Prof. P.E. Subramania Iyer Medal for Academic performance in Physics during the year 1989 (3) The Fr.Sewell Medal for Outstanding academic performance in Physics during the year 1990 (4) Dr. Srinivasamoorthy best paper award for the years 2002 to 2009 (5) Travel grant awards sponsored by Indian National Science Academy, Tamil Nadu State Council of Science and Technology in 2001 (1) Travel grant award International Commission for Acoustics and UNESCO to participate in the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, ROME, Italy, 2001 (2) Fellowship from UNESCO to chair the session in the Inter regional workshop on Lightning Physics in University of Colombo, SRILANKA, 2003 (3) Post doctoral fellowship awarded by University of Coimbra, Portugal under European union funding for a period of 2005 to 2006 (4) Visiting Scientist to Spain (University of Zaragoza) Fellowship awarded by Indian and Spain Governments under Indo-Spanish cultural and scientific exchange visit ----(September 2007) (5) U.S. Professorship award to deliver lectures in U.S.A. awarded by American Physical Society (2010 - 2011)

Ph.d Student awards received Best Paper for Mr. Armstrong Acoustical Society of IndiaArasu Acoustical Society of America joint meeting, Hyderabad Best Paper for Ms.Josephine Indian Thermal analysis society Prabha conference, Gurushetra Best Paper for Mr. A.J. Clement Acoustical Society of India Lourdhu Raj Acoustical Society of America Joint meeting, Rishikesh
Best Paper awards for the Ph. D students :

Nov-2009 Mar-2010 Nov - 2010

Reviewer of National and International Journals : (1) Reviewer of the Journal of Acoustical Society of India in 2001 (2) Reviewer of the International journal Thermochimica Acta for the year 2006 Member of the National and International Scientific bodies : (1) Life Member of the Acoustical Society of India, New Delhi (2) Life Member of the Ultrasonics Society of India, New Delhi (3) Member of the Indian Science Congress Association, Calcutta (4) Former Member of American chemical Society, U.S.A. (One year) (6) Member of IACT (International Association for Chemical Thermodynamics) (7) Elected as the E.C. Member of the Acoustical Society of India for the years 2010 - 2012 Organising Workshops : (1) Jointly organised National Workshop on Application of Radiation and Radio isotopes (NWARRI- 2008) in collaboration with IANCAS, IGCAR, Kalpakkam (2) Jointly organised Indo- U.S. workshop on Nanosonics and Ultrasonics and International conference on Nano technology and ultrasound January 12 14, 2011 in collaboration with U.S. Scientists under the aegis of IUSSTF and sponsored by ICA, ICTP, CSIR and INSA (Principal Investigators : Dr. I. Johnson, India and Dr. Silvana Martini, USU, U.S.A.) Research Supervising experience : No. of M. Phil Projects completed in Chemical Physics and Material science : 30, Ph. D programme Completed in Chemical Physics : 02, Ph. D programme on going in Chemical Physics & Material science : 06 Projects handled and handling (1) University Grants Commission, Hyderabad, India Rs. 95,000 (Completed) (2) Defence Research and Development Organisation, Govt. of India, Rs. 3, 60,000 (2009 2010) (Completed) (3) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, Rs. 9, 50, 000 (2009 2012) (On going) (4) University Grants Commission, India, Rs. 6, 60, 000 (2009 2012) (On going)

Papers published in reviewed National, International Journals & International Conferences : 1. Kalidoss.M., Johnson.I. and Srinivasamoorthy.R. Ultrasonic study of Binary Mixture of Glycerol Vol.I, Journal of Acoustical Society of India, 1999, New Delhi 2. Johnson. I., Kalidoss.M. and Srinivasamoorthy.R., Thermo-acoustic parameters of the 2Ethoxy ethanol + DMSO/DMF mixtures from volume expansivity data, Journal of Acoustical Society of India, 2000, 28, 347-350 3. Johnson. I., Kalidoss.M. and Srinivasamoorthy.R., Acoustical investigation of some ternary organic liquid mixtures. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics, Rome, Italy, 2001. 4. Johnson. I., Kalidoss.M. and Srinivasamoorthy.R., Evaluation of Physico chemical parameters of Ethenyl benzene + DMSO + DMFA Using an acoustic method , Acoustics Letters (U.K.), 2001, 24, 210-217 5. Johnson. I., Kalidoss.M. and Srinivasamoorthy.R., Evaluation of thermodynamical parameters of ternary mixtures of 2-Ethoxy ethanol + DMSO + DMFA at 308.15 K Journal of Acoustical Society of India 2002,30, 32-37 6. Irudayaraj Johnson., Murugesan Kalidoss and Raghavachariar Srinivasamoorthy, Density, Viscosity and speed of sound in the ternary mixtures of 2-Ethoxy ethanol + N,N, DMFA + DMAc and 2-E-E + DMSO + DMAc at 308.15 K, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data U.S.A , 2002, 47, 1388-1390 7. I. Johnson, M. Kalidoss and R.Srinivasamoorthy, Evaluation of thermo-acoustic parameters of some binary mixtures from volume expansivity data , Journal of Pure and Applied Ultrasonics, 2003, 25(4), 136-142 8. Irudayaraj Johnson, Spectroscopic confirmation of excess volume studies of 2E-E + DMSO at 308.15 K Proceedings of the International conference on Spectro Physics Feb. 2005, Chennai, India 9. I. Johnson and Armstrong Arasu, Derivation of a new equation to determine the internal pressure of liquids in terms of non-linear acoustical parameter and experimental confirmation, Journal of Acoustical Society of India, 2005, 33, 268-271 10. Irudayaraj Johnson, Isabel M.A. Fonseca and Abel G.M. Ferreira, Surface tension and Interfacial tension of some organic liquid mixtures --- Proceedings of the European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics, ESAT, 2006 at DENMARK 11. I. Johnson and Clement Lourdu Raj, Spectroscopic and ultrasonic studies of some binary mixtures, Journal of Pure and Applied Ultrasonics, (May 2006) 12. Ramesh L. Gardas, Irudayaraj Johnson, David M.D. Vaz, Isabel M.A. Fonseca and Abel G.M. Ferreira, PVT Property measurements for some Aliphatic Esters from (298 to 393) K and up to 35 MPa, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, U.S.A. 2007, 52, 737-751 13. I. Johnson, Abel G.M. Ferreira and Isabel M.A. Fonseca -- Surface Tension measurements of some ternary mixtures (Poster presentation) Proceedings of the 8th Congress of Physical-Chemistry of the Portuguese Chemical Society, Luso.June, 2007. 14. I. Johnson and Clement Lourdu Raj, Spectroscopic and ultrasonic studies of some binary mixtures, Journal of Pure and Applied Ultrasonics, (May 2006) 15. Irudayaraj Johnson, Henrique F. Costa, Abel G.M. Ferreira, Isabel M.A. Fonseca Density, Viscosity, Surface Tension and Interfacial tension of the system Water + n -Butyl acetate + 1-Propanol at 303.15 K and Atmospheric pressure, International Journal of thermophysics , 2008, 29(2), 619-633 16. H. F. Costa, I. Johnson, F. M. Gonalves, A.G.M. Ferreira, Isabel M. A. Fonseca, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, U.S.A. 2009, 54(2), 256-262, PVT property Measurements for Ethyl Propionate, Ethyl Butyrate and Ethyl Pentanoate Esters from 298

to 393 K and up to 35 MPa 17. H. F. Costa, I. Johnson, F. M. Gonalves, A.G.M. Ferreira, Isabel M. A. Fonseca Liquid-Liquid Equilibria, Surface and Interfacial Tension for Water+N -Butyl acetate+1-Propanol at 323.15 K published in the proceedings of CHEMPOR 2008, Braga, Portugal 18. Akila. B., Dona, Kuppusami.P., Mohandas. E. and Johnson.I. , A Study of Nitrogen sputtered Nano thin films in Argon and Nitrogen atm. Proceedings of the International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials science and Engineering (Page No. 68, MP-P1), ISRS Dec.2008 held at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai 19. Josephine Prabha, A. Raju, Jeyaganesh. B., Mohandas. E. Vijayalakshmi. M. and Johnson. I. , Kinetics of HCP to BCC Phase Change in pure titanium : Effect of heating cooling rates on transformation asymmetry. Proceedings of The International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering (Page No. 71, MP-P4) - ISRS Dec.2008 held at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai 20. Henrique F. Costa, Helio Louren, Irudayaraj Johnson, Filipa A.M.M. Gonsalves, Abel. G.M. Ferreira and Isable M.A. Fonseca LiquidLiquid Equilibria, Density, Viscosity, and Surface and Interfacial Tension of the System Water + n-Butyl Acetate + 1-Propanol at 323.15 K and Atmospheric Pressure, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, U.S.A. 2009, 54 (10), pp 2845-2854 21. Gonalves F.A.M.M, Trindade A.R., Costa, C.S.M.F., Bernardo, J.C.S., Johnson. I., Fonseca, I.M.A., Ferreira, A.G.M. PVT, Viscosity and Surface tension of ethanol : New measurements and literature data evaluation, The Journal of Chemical thermodynamics, 2010, 42(8), 1039 1049 22. Ultrasonic and Spectroscopic Studies of Binary Mixtures Benzaldehyde + Benzyl Chloride & Benzyl Chloride + 2-Butanone, Journal of Acoustical Society of India, Vol.37, Num.1 pp.15-19, 2010 23. Ultrasonic and Spectroscopic Studies of Ternary Mixture Ethyl Acetate + 2-Butanone + Hexane, Journal of Acoustical Society of India, Vol.37, Num.1 pp.33-36, 2010 24. Ultrasonic and Spectroscopic Studies of Binary Mixtures Ethyl Acetate + 2-Butanone and Ethyl Acetate + Hexane, Journal of Acoustical Society of India, Vol.37, Num.2 pp.6569, 2010 25. Josephine Prabha, A. Raju, Jeyaganesh. B., Mohandas. E. Vijayalakshmi. M. and Johnson. I. , Enthalpy measurements on Titanium 20 atomic percent Niobium alloy. Proceedings of The International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering - ISRS Dec.2010 held at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai 26. Dichloromethane: Revision and extension of pqT relationships for the liquid F.A.M.M. Gonalves, C.S.M.F. Costa , J.C.S. Bernardo, I. Johnson , I.M.A. Fonseca , A.G.M. Ferreira, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 43(2), 2011, 105 116 27. Pressure Volume Temperature measurements of Phosponium based ionic liquids and Analysis with simple equations of state, F.A.M.M. Gonalves, C.S.M.F. Costa , C.E. Ferreira, J.C.S. Bernardo, I. Johnson , I.M.A. Fonseca , A.G.M. Ferreira, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics accepted 21st January 2011 and available online ASAP

Topics Lightning Physics

RESOURCE / CHAIR PERSON *** Institution Name University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Naval Science and Technological Laboratory RCI Imarat, DRDO Lab University of Zaragoza Govt. college at Rishikesh American Physical Society

Place & Year

Sri Lanka, 2003 Vishakapatnam, 2008 Hyderabad, 2009 Spain, 2007 Dehradun, 2010 2011

Acoustics (NSA- 2008) Acoustics (NSA-2009) Material science Acoustics (NSA-2010)

Applications of Ultrasound and Nano technology to Materials and Biological substances

*** This list has to be updated since assignments have been accepted for the years 20102011, dates and exact location needs to be finalized (both National and International)

National and International conferences in which papers were presented by the candidate :

1. National Symposium on Acoustics (NSA 99), September 23 & 24, 1999, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Virudhu Nagar, Tamilnadu. 2. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE and EXHIBITION on ULTRASONICS (ICEU 99), 2-4, December 1999, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi 3. National Symposium on Acoustics (NSA 2000), November 22-23, 2000, St.Josephs College, Trichy 620002 4. 10th National Symposium on Ultrasonics, March 15 & 16, 2001, Osmania University, Hyderabad 5. 17th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ACOUSTICS, organized by Associazione Italiana di acustica under the aegis of the International Commission Acoustics, University of ROME, ITALY September 2-7, 2001 6. National Symposium on Acoustics (NSA 2002), October 22-24, 2002, Aligarh Muslim University. 7. National Symposium on Chemical Physics, March 10-11, 2003, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar. 8. UNESCO Regional workshop on Lightning Physics, Department of Physics, University of Colombo, 29th April 7th May 2003. 9. National Symposium on Acoustics, Oct. 30-Nov.1, 2004 held at Automotive Research Association of India, PUNE

10.International Conference on Spectro Physics (INCONS 2005) at Pachaiyappas college, Chennai, under the aegis of Indian Spectro Physics Association (ISPA) 11.National Symposium on Ultrasonics at Cochin University of science and technology, Dec. 2007 12. Trends in Nano Technology Seminar Series --- San Sebastian, Spain, Sep.2008

Name of the Courses attended by the candidate :

(1) Workshop on RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (5th and 6th April 1993) conducted at St. Josephs College, Trichy sponsored by All India Association for Christian Higher Education. (2) National Seminar on Education for Social Change Role of Autonomous colleges --- 5th January to 7th January 1994 held at St. Josephs college, Trichy-2 (3) UGC workshop Question Bank in Physics ( Phase I ) at the Department of Physics, Fatima College, Madurai, India ---- January 30, 1997 to February 1, 1997 (4) Course on LASER APPLICATIONS Organised by Regional Engineering College, Trichy and Welding Research Institute, Boiler Heavy Electricals Ltd. Trichy on 15th March 1997 (5) Orientation course for college and University Teachers ( 26 th September 1997 to 23rd October 1997 ) organized by the Academic staff college, Pondicherry University (6) IX National symposium on Ultrasonics ( December 14 16, 1998 ) organized by Raman School of Physics, Pondicherry University, PONDICHERRY and Ultrasonics society of India, NEW DELHI (7) UGC Question Bank Workshop in Physics ( Phase II ) organised by the Department of Physics, AVVM Sri Pushpam College, Poondi, Thanjavur ( 3rd to 6th February, 1999 ) (8) Workshop on PHYSICAL ULTRASONICS held at the Dept. of Physics, St. Josephs college(Autonomous ), Trichy on 27th February 1999 (9) UGC Sponsored Refresher course in Physics conducted by School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, KERALA ( 3rd March 1999 to 26th March 1999 ) (10)Seminar on RECENT ADVANCES OF LASER IN SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS held at the Dept. of Physics, St. Josephs College, Trichy ( 6th to 7th September 1999 ) (11)INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS ( 1st to 4th March 2000 ) organized by the Dept. of Physics, St. Josephs College, Trichy (12)UGC sponsored seminar cum workshop on MICROPROCESSORS and MICROCONTROLLERS held at Urumu Dhanalakshmi College, Trichy from 15th May 2000 to 5th June 2000 (13)UGC Sponsored Refresher course in Physics organized by the Academic staff College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy ( 30 th August 2000 to 19th September 2000 )

(14) Innovative and Concept Centered Experiments organized by the Dept. of Physics, Regional Engineering College and Bharathidasan University, Trichy on 18th January 2002 (15) Theme Meeting --- STEM - 2008 Organised by IGCAR, Kalpakkam and Indian Institute of Metals, April 2008

Popularisation of Science (Served as Resource person) :

(1) Talk and conversation on Acoustics to Radio Vaticano in the month of August 2001 (2) Talk on New Dimensions in Acoustics (in Tamil) to All India Radio in 2001 (3) Importance of Alternative Energy resources Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Day celebrations conducted by N.S.S Unit of St. Josephs college and Bharathidasan University. (2005) (4) Efficient Usage of alternative energy resources --- Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Day Celebrations conducted by N.S.S Unit of St. Josephs college and Bharathidasan University (2006) (5) Alternative energy resources for safety and healthy environment --- EXNORA, Urumu Dhana Lakshmi College and University Students service center (2007) (6) Global warming and its impact 2009, -- Organized by UrumuDhana Lakshmi college and BARD University (7) Modern aspects of Science for School Teachers 2010 --- Organized by SHEPHERD Department, St. Josephs college, Trichy

Contribution to the corporate life of the candidate /Administrative Positions held in the college and in scientific bodies :
(1) President of the Physics Association of St. Josephs college (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), 1996-1997 (2) Executive committee member of Staff Association of St. Josephs college, 2004-2005 (3) Executive committee member of Alumni Association of St. Josephs college, 2002 2004 (4) DST FIST Programme Coordinator for Physics Department of St. Josephs college ( 2009 2014) (Sanctioned amount Rs. 40 Lakhs) (5) E.C. Member of Acoustical Society of India, New Delhi, 2010 2012 (6) President of Acoustical Society of India, Trichy Chapter, 2010 2013 (7) President of Physics Association, St. Josephs college, Trichy 2, 2011 2012

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