Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 15: Dr Vijay Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Institution of Technology (NIT) Srinagar has bagged the prestigious “SERB International Research Experience” (SIRE) fellowship for the year 2022-23.
The fellowship is supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and has been approved for a duration of 3 months along with Prof Yogendra Kumar Mishra at Smart Materials Group, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark, to develop self-healing cartilages based on polysaccharide-based biomaterials and ZnO tetrapods.
Director NIT, Prof (Dr), Rakesh Sehgal hoped that Dr Vijay Kumar would justify the fellowship with a quality research outcome. “It is a proud movement for the entire Institute. Research is important and vital for any engineering institution. Without research and investigation, there will be no progress and we cannot stay relevant in a competitive market,” he said.
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