Rajan Jose

Professor Rajan Jose is a Chair Professor of Energy and Battery Technology at the Battery Research Center for Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology (Taiwan) and a Senior Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Sciences & Technology Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) (Malaysia). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy. He has served as the Dean of Research (Technology) of UMPSA during Feb 2016 – Aug 2019 besides serving as a Member of the Senate, and the Graduate Council of UMPSA. He has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India, and has received PhD degree in the year 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of diverse range of materials including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, materials for molecular electronics, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMPSA as a Professor during March 2010. He has published over 400 papers in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals, which are cited nearly 24000 times with an h-index of 77 according to Google Scholar database. He holds 25 patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 30 Doctoral, and 11 Master’s researchers. Stanford University places him as a top 2% Materials Scientist in the world since 2020. His current research interests include renewable energy devices, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence.