Professor Ramesh Chandra Budhani received his Master’s degree in Physics from the Allahabad University in the year 1976 and Ph. D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has been a Research Scientist at the University of California - Los Angeles during the period 1983 -1987, a Staff Scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory - New York from 1988 to 1994 and a Professor at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur during the period 1994 to 2009. Prof. Budhani has also been a Visiting Professor at the Center for Superconductivity Research - University of Maryland, a Guest Scientist at CRISMAT Laboratory, Caen - France and Brookhaven Lab, and Joliot Fellow of the Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, ESPCI – Paris, France.

Prof. Budhani is an experimental condensed matter physicist with interest in superconductivity and magnetism in a broad class of materials including thin epitaxial films and heterostructures, self-assembled and patterned nanostructures, and other low dimensional systems. He has published ~ 150 papers in high impact factor journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Physical review B etc., many of which are extensively cites. Prof. Budhani has been invited to deliver talks on his research at several universities/research laboratories abroad, has organized international conferences and symposia and has mentored a large number of students at IIT Kanpur and overseas. He is a member of the editorial board of Pramana and the DST - INSPIRE Panel of the National Academies, and has also served as a member of the Science Education Panel of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Budhani is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy -India.