Prof. Mahesh Kumar is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. He has received the INSA Medal for Young Scientists-2014 by the Indian National Science Academy, the MRSI Medal-2016 by the Materials Research Society of India, DAE-Young Achiever Award-2016 by BRNS, Research Excellence Award 2020 by IIT Jodhpur, and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize by The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is a recipient of the NAWA ULAM-2024 fellowship by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Brain Pool Program-2022 by the Korean National Research Foundation, Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships-2021; The Royal Society International Exchange Award-2021; JSPS Invitation Fellowship-2021, PIFI Visiting Scientist fellowship-2021 by the Chinese Academy of Science; Duo-India Professor Fellowship-2020, Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship-2018, and INSA-DFG International Bilateral Exchange Award-2015. Recently, INAE awarded him the Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship 2022. He is also an Editorial Board member of Nanotechnology, IEEE Sensors Journal, Bulletin of Materials Science, and Nano Express. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. He is a founding Member and served as Chair of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 225 research articles. His research interests are focused on 2D materials, Nanomaterials, Sensors, Semiconductor materials, and devices.

Key Publications:

• Somalapura Prakasha Bharatha, Amit Kumara, and Mahesh Kumar Impedance-Based Multivariate Analysis for Accurate Estimation of H2S Concentrations Using CuCrO2 Gas Sensor Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 422, 136689 (2025).
• Suresh Kumar, Atanu Betal, Ashok Kumar, Atul G. Chakkar, Pradeep Kumar, Monika Kwoka, Satyajit Sahu, and Mahesh Kumar. Enhancing NO2 gas sensing: The dual impact of UV and thermal activation on vertically aligned Nb-MoS2 for superior response and selectivity. ACS Sensors 10, 2191 (2025).
• Ashok Kumar, Suraj Barala, Akash Popat Gutal, Atul G. Chakkar, Pradeep Kumar, Manikandan Paranjothy, and Mahesh Kumar Silver-atom catalysts boosted nitrogen-doped MoS2 for chemiresistive NO2 gas sensor Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 439, 137839 (2025).
• Swaraj Mukherjee, Mubashir M. Ganaie, Ayan Chatterjee, Amit Kumar, Satyajit Sahu, Michael Saliba, Mahesh Kumar Self-Contained Analog Switching in AgHfO3-x Memristor with Lattice-Sourced Ag Filament for Reliable Synaptic Behavior and Associative Learning Small (In Press)
• Atul G. Chakkar, Deepu Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, and Pradeep Kumar Tunable resonant Raman scattering with temperature in vertically aligned 2H-SnS2Nanoscale (In Press).

Ongoing Projects:

• Hydrogen gas sensors from BRNS