Department of Physical Sciences

  • Year of establishment : 1991
  • Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.) :
  • DCA, PGDCA
·      UG- B.Sc.(Geo, CS, Maths), BCA, B.Sc.(IT)
·      PG-  M.Sc.(IT, IC, Maths, Geology, RS & GIS, Physics)
  • Ph.D. – Chemistry, Physics, Geology, IT, CS, Math, Statistic & RS-GIS.
  • Interdisciplinary courses and departments involved :

        M.Sc.(RS & GIS & Phy.Sc.+Env.Sc., All UG – B.Sc. – Phy. Sc., Bio Science + Energy + Env. Deptt.

  • Annual/ Semester/Choice Based Credit System : Yes – Semester System & Credit System
  • Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments : Yes ,

      Agriculture Faculty Arts Faculty Management Faculty Engg. & Tech. Faculty

  • 7. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation and specialization (D.Sc./D.Litt./ Ph.D./M.Phil., etc.)

Faculty Profile of the Department

Dr. Ajay Kumar is an Associate Professor in Geology and Head, Department of Physical Sciences. He completed his higher education – M. Tech. (Applied Geology) and Ph. D. from Dr. Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar (M.P.). His area of Specialisation is Geochemistry and Environmental Geology. He has published more than 12 research papers. He has participated in 30 National and International/Seminar/ Conferences/Workshop/Training. He has more than 30 years of research and teaching experience. Four Ph. D. Thesis were awarded under his supervision

Prof. Indra Prasad Tripathi is Dean, Faculty of Science and Environment, MGCGV, Chitrakoot Satna, MP India. He has made outstanding contribution towards research and re-standardisation of traditional formulation of anti-diabetic and antiseptic drugs using new techniques and methods. He has simultaneously made remarkable contributions towards the syntheses, characterisation of metal complexes with their anti diabetic properties, antioxidant activities, super oxide dismutase mimicking activities, free radical scavenging activities, catalytic behaviour etc. Prof. Tripathi has also worked on syntheses, characterisation of carbon nano tubes. He made carbon nano tubes through metal complexes with natural proteins like spinach, egg albumin using various spectroscopic, diffraction/ scattering, electro-chemical characterisation tools. Prof. Tripathi has published 130 research papers and his Google Scholar citation-164, h index-06, i10 index-04 and Research gate value-17.93. Prof. Tripathi is a founder member of BER Chapter, NASI and actively engaged in the chapter activities.

Dr. Vandana Pathak is an Associate Professor in Chemistry, Department of Physical Sciences. She completed her higher education from Dr. Hari Singh Gaur University, Sagar. Her area of Specialisation is Analytical, Environmental and Plant Chemistry. She has published more than 40 research papers. She has participated in 20 National and International Seminar/Conferences/Workshop/Training. She has more than 27 years of research and teaching experience. Nine Ph.D. Thesis were awarded under her supervision.

Dr. Virendra Upadhyay is an Associate Professor in Mathematics Dept. of Physical Sciences. His area of specialisation is Bio-Mathematics. He completed his higher education from University of Allahabad. He has published more than 15 research papers. He has participated in 20 National and International Seminar/Conferences/Workshop/Training. He has more than 26 years of research and teaching experience.

Dr. Ravi Chaurey is an Associate Professor in Geology in the Department of Physical Sciences. His area of specialisation is RS & GIS, Palaeontology and Hydrogeology. He has more than 10 research papers and 06 international symposium, seminar, and Training programme in his credit. He got 02 young scientist fellowships awards (FTYS Scheme of MPCST, Bhopal) and Best paper award in 3rd International Conference at Kathmandu, Nepal on Sept. 2014. He has also
completed GWPMAP of (RGNDWM) NRSC, ISRO, Hyderabad and Mid Term Evaluation Project of Govt. of MP completed project of Rewa, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Jabalpur Districts.

Dr. Anil Kumar Agrawal is an Associate Professor in Mathematics Dept. of Physical Sciences. His area of specialisation is Theory of Relativity and Cosmology & Bio-Mathematics. He published more than 36 research papers
and four books. He participated in 40 National and International Seminars/Conferences/ Workshops/Trainings. He has more than 27 years of research and teaching experience.

Dr. S.S. Gautam is an Associate Professor in Statistics Department of Physical Sciences. He did Post Graduate and Ph.D. in Statistics from Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya, Chitrakoot, (M.P.). He got
Young Scientist award in year 2012. He did “Rajeev Gandhi Jalgrahan Pravandhan Mission” from Rural Department of MP Government and “Bamboo Project” funded by NABARD, M.P. Besides this, he has participated in various national and
international symposiums, seminars, and Training programmes. He has more than 25 years research and 25 years teaching experience. His main research interest is Experimental Design, Demography. Ten Ph.D. theses have awarded under his supervision and guidance. More than 75 research papers have been published by him.