Prof. Venugopal Rao Soma

Prof. Soma obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1994 and Ph.D. (Physics) from the University of Hyderabad in 2000. He worked as a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, from 2000 to 2003 and as a senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore from 2003 to 2004. He worked as an assistant professor at IIT Guwahati from 2004 to 2007 and joined the University of Hyderabad as a reader in 2007. He later became an Associate Professor in 2010 and Professor in 2013. He is now a Senior Professor at the University of Hyderabad.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

- Successfully guided 14 Ph.D. students; 1 more are currently under supervision
- Mentored numerous post-doctoral, M.Sc., undergraduate students

PUBLICATIONS

- 1 book and 17 book chapters
- >450 papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings
- Presented >150 papers at various international/national conferences
- >11600 citations (Google Scholar Citations), h-index of 58
- https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=drr_va8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

INVITED/PLENARY TALKS

- Delivered >85 invited talks
- Presented 3 KEYNOTE and 4 plenary talks

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- Fellow SPIE
- Fellow IAAM, 2023.
- MRSI medal, 2022
- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), 2021
- Recognized as the top 2% scientist in optics/photonics, Stanford University, 2020
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, 2020
- Fellow, Institute of Physics, London, UK, 2019
- PUBLONS TOP Peer Reviewer Award, 2018 and 2019
- Fellow, Telangana Academy of Sciences, 2017
- Chancellor’s Award, University of Hyderabad, 2016
- NASI-SCOPUS Award, Physics category, 2012
- Senior Member of prestigious organizations: OPTICA, SPIE, IEEE

EDITORIAL ROLES

- Associate Editor, Optics Letters
- Associate Editor, Opto-electronic Advances
- Editorial Board Member, Defence Science Journal, India
- Associate Editor, RSC Advances
- Member, Editorial Board for “Optics and Photonics” section of “Frontiers” journal