Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Prof. Rajeev K. Puri is working as Professor of Physics at Panjab University,
Chandigarh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Panjab University and then was a
post-doctoral fellow at the Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitaet
Tubingen, Germany and at the Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de
Nantes, France. He has around 400 publications in journals and conferences to his
credit with citations close to 6500. He has also guided about 25 Ph.D. students.
He has received prestigious awards like Scientist of the Year; Himachal Excellence
Awards, S.N. Satyamurthy Memorial Award and Young Scientist Research award.
He is an editor, member of editorial board, referee of about 47 journals. He is also
on the board of academic/advisory bodies of about dozen noted universities
throughout India. Currently, he is also holding a position of University coordinator
of RUSA (National Higher Education Mission), Panjab University.
Prof. Joerg Aichelin is presently serving as Distinguished Scientist (class
exceptionnelle) at the University of Nantes, France. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Heidelberg, and did his post-doctoral research at the Michigan State
University, East Lansing, USA. He is a pioneer of theoretical nuclear physics at
intermediate/high energies and his proposed n-body dynamical approach to identify
fragment production in heavy-ion collisions is a benchmark in the field, which is
widely used in the field of heavy-ion physics. He has numerous awards and honors
to his credit like Fellow of Institute of Physics, London (2004); Member of
Academia Europe (2010–), Spokesperson of a European Network of 20 European
theoretical laboratories (2003–), Member of the Program Advisory Committee
of the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (GSI) Darmstadt (2004–09),
President of the Committee for financing the nuclear/high energy theory in France
(2012–16) and many more. He has 239 publications in various reputed journals
with over 8010 citations.
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About the Editors
Prof. Rajeev K. Puri is working as Professor of Physics at Panjab University,
Chandigarh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Panjab University and then was a
post-doctoral fellow at the Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitaet
Tubingen, Germany and at the Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de
Nantes, France. He has around 400 publications in journals and conferences to his
credit with citations close to 6500. He has also guided about 25 Ph.D. students.
He has received prestigious awards like Scientist of the Year; Himachal Excellence
Awards, S.N. Satyamurthy Memorial Award and Young Scientist Research award.
He is an editor, member of editorial board, referee of about 47 journals. He is also
on the board of academic/advisory bodies of about dozen noted universities
throughout India. Currently, he is also holding a position of University coordinator
of RUSA (National Higher Education Mission), Panjab University.
Prof. Joerg Aichelin is presently serving as Distinguished Scientist (class
exceptionnelle) at the University of Nantes, France. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Heidelberg, and did his post-doctoral research at the Michigan State
University, East Lansing, USA. He is a pioneer of theoretical nuclear physics at
intermediate/high energies and his proposed n-body dynamical approach to identify
fragment production in heavy-ion collisions is a benchmark in the field, which is
widely used in the field of heavy-ion physics. He has numerous awards and honors
to his credit like Fellow of Institute of Physics, London (2004); Member of
Academia Europe (2010–), Spokesperson of a European Network of 20 European
theoretical laboratories (2003–), Member of the Program Advisory Committee
of the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (GSI) Darmstadt (2004–09),
President of the Committee for financing the nuclear/high energy theory in France
(2012–16) and many more. He has 239 publications in various reputed journals
with over 8010 citations.
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