Academic Profile
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Mary Matha High School, Panthalampadam, Kerala, India |
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St. Thomas College / Calicut University, Kerala, India (1995) |
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St. Thomas College / Calicut University, Kerala, India (1998) |
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St. Thomas College / Calicut University, Kerala, India (2000) |
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Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India (2002) |
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Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie and NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Universität Münster, Germany (2006) Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Pottgen Second mentor: Prof. Hellmut Eckert |
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Max Plank Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany (2007-2008) Supervisor: Prof. Yuri Grin |
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Northwestern University, Chemistry Department, USA (2008-2010) Supervisor: Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis |
Awards and Fellowships
- Ramanujan Fellowship, DST, India (2010-2014)
- International Graduate School of Chemistry fellowship, University of Münster, Germany (2003-2006).
- Editorial member of the journal Advances in Chemistry (2013-Current)
- ACS Award – SCP selected as one of the 13 emerging investigators in the field of Solid-State Materials chemistry worldwide. (Link To ACS Page)
- MRSI medal, 2016 – Dr. Sebastian C. Peter has been selected for Materials Research Society of India – MRSI Medal 2016.
Professional Affiliations
- American Chemical Society
- Chemical Research Society of India
- Material Research Society of India
- American Society of Metals International
- Society for Material Chemistry, India
- Indian Crystallographic Association
Teaching
Graduate courses (PhD, Int. PhD and M.S. students)
- Crystallography of solid state materials (JNC-310, 2011-current, 3 credits)
- Physical methods for chemists (JNC-305, 2011-Current, 3 Credits)
- Chemical laboratory for Int-PhD students (JNC-203, 204 and 205, 1 Credit)
Undergraduate Course (Project Oriented Chemical Education (POCE))
- Basic solid state chemistry (2011-Current)
Invited Talks
- International conference on advanced materials – ICAM 2008, Kottayam, India (February 2008)
- The seventh JNC research conference on chemistry of materials, Kochi, India (October 2011)
- International year of chemistry, department of chemistry, Central College Campus, Bangalore (9th Dec 2011)
- Modern trends in inorganic chemistry, University of Hyderabad, India (11th Dec 2011)
- Faculty development program “Materials: Present and future perspectives”, NIT Calicut, India (16th Dec 2011)
- Recent advances in Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli, India (22nd March 2012)
- The twelth structural materials unit seminar, NIMS, Japan (5th Nov 2012)
- JNCASR Christ university on advances in Chemistry, Christ University, Bangalore (13th Feb 2013)
- Prof. K. K. Mohammed Yussuf Endowment Lecture, Ctric-2013, CUSAT, India (23rd March 2013)
- Chemical frontiers, Goa, India (29th August 2013)
- Winter School-2013, JNCASR, Bangalore, India (3rd Dec 2013)
Articles published in seminars, symposia and conference volumes
1. First Indo-German and 16th national symposium, Hyderabad, India (February 2003): Regioselective butylation of toluene with TBA on mordenite catalyst-effect of acidity.
2. 12th Vortragstagung der fachgruppe festkörperchemie und materialforschung der GDCh, Marburg, Germany (September 2004): The stannides TmAgSn and LuAgSn
3. Second Sigma-aldrich symposium in material chemistry, Münster, Germany (October 2004): The stannides: REAgSn (RE = Y, Tm, Lu) and REAuSn (RE = Sc, Lu)
4. ICAME 05 (International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect), Montpellier, France (September 2005): Crystal chemistry, 119Sn Mössbauer and 119Sn NMR studies of the stannides REAuSn (RE = Sc, Y, Tm, Lu)
5. 13th Vortragstagung der fachgruppe festkörperchemie und materialforschung der GDCh, Aachen, Germany (September 2006): 45Sc solid state NMR in ternary intermetallic scandium compounds.
6. Sixth workshop on Mössbauer spectroscopy, Seeheim, Germany (June 2006): The magnetic phase transitions in intermetallic compounds by Mössbauer spectroscopy
7. Terrae Rarae, Oldenburg, Germany (December 2006): 45Sc Solid State NMR of intermetallic compounds
8. International conference on the f-electron elements, Wroclaw, Poland (September 2006): NMR spectroscopy of rare earth elements in intermetallic compounds
9. DGK Jahrestagung 2007 Bremen, Germany (March 2007): Struktur und 45Sc festkörper NMR ternärer scandiumsilizide
10. European conference on solid state chemistry – ECSSC XI, Caen, France (September 2007): Crystal structure and magnetic properties of EuLiGe2 and YbLiGe2 synthesized by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)
11. 7th Pacific rim conference on ceramic and glass technology – PACRIM7, Shanghai, China (November 2007): Preparation of Eu and Yb containing intermetallic compounds by Spark Plasma Sintering.
12. Advanced processing for novel functional materials – APNFM 2008, Dresden, Germany (January 2008): Transformation of Nb5Si3 phases in the process of Spark Plasma Sintering
13. International conference on advanced materials – ICAM 2008, Kottayam, India (February 2008): Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) – A novel synthesis technique for advanced materials
14. American physical society meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (March 2009): NMR studies of Yb4LiGe4: A possible Kondo insulator
15. 2010 DTRA Basic research program technical review – Waterford at Springfield, Virginia (April 2010): First-principles study of g-ray detector materials: Tl-based compounds
16. North american solid state conference (NASSC), Columbus, OHIO, USA (June 2009): Synthesis and properties of new europium and ytterbium intermetallic compounds via the metal flux technique.
17. 2010 DTRA Basic research program technical review – Waterford at Springfield, Virginia (April 2010):First-principles study of g-ray detector materials: Tl-based compounds
18. American physical society meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA (March 2010): Magnetic ordering in Yb4LiGe4
19. SPIE – The international society for optical engineering (2011): Tl-based Wide Gap Semiconductor Materials for X-ray and Gamma Ray Detection
20. American physical society meeting, Boston, MA, USA (March 2011): Magnetic correlations in Yb4LiGe4: A μSR and 7Li NMR Study
21. MRS fall meeting, Boston, USA (December 2011): Alkali Metal Chalcogenides for Radiation Detection
22. 58th DAE solid state physics symposium, BARC, India(December 2012): Structure and properties of RELiGe2 (RE=La-Nd, Sm-Gd, Yb) compounds