Professor Jagdish Vij

Jagdish K Vij was educated in Panjab University Chandigarh. This was one of the top best public universities in North India at the time. He spent 8 years from 1961 to 1969 at the campus of Panjab University Chandigarh and during this time he earned degrees of B.Sc.(Hons. School), M.Sc. (Hons. School) and Ph.D. from Panjab University. He was a post-doctoral research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 1971-74 and researched in the dielectric properties of materials at high pressures with Prof. Garrett Scaife and Prof. Brendan Scaife. His work was published in high impact factor Journals of the time. They were one of the first groups to be able to measure together both complex permittivity and density of fluids under high hydrostatic pressures. He lectured in a number of universities before being appointed to a Lectureship in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in TCD in 1979. He was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1983 as one of 4 from all Faculties in that year. He lectured on Electro-Technology (basic course on Electrical Engineering) for all Engineers, Analog Electronics for third years and Electronic Materials for second and the specialist fourth years. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science of the University of Dublin on his published work in 1990. He was promoted Professor in Engineering Science in the same year. He was subsequently appointed to the chair of Electronic Materials in Department of Electronic/Electrical Engineering in 1999. He was elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy again as one out of the four in All Sciences elected that year. He supervised 18 PhD's of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He mentored 30 post docs from different Countries. He had a number of very distinguished Professors and Researchers working and visiting him. He has published some 347 papers on Electronic Materials, liquid crystals and related instrumentation in high impact factor International Journals. These include papers in Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and four in the IEEE Transactions. More than 50% of the papers are published in the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics Journals. In addition, he and his group have presented some 250 papers at the various international conferences. He made a number of seminal contributions to millimeter and submillimeter (THz) wave electrical measurements, to glass science in terms of the slow and the fast molecular dynamics and science of glass transition. He moved on to the field of liquid crystals in the early 1990s where he and his group made many seminal contributions in almost all areas of liquid crystals science and technology. Recently they discovered a twist-bend nematic phase as well as discovered a number of new dynamic modes and a also discovered a large number subphases in antiferroelectric liquid crystals. He is an invited speaker at a number of international conferences. At end of December 2020, he had Google h-index of 42, and Web of Science h-index of 39. He holds two patents on the applications of liquid crystals with two members of his research group. He chaired the 25th International Liquid Crystal Conference in TCD in 2014 and the 9th International Ferroelectric liquid crystals Conference in TCD 2003. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Liquid Crystals for 10 years 1998-2008, and a member of the Editorial Board of Molecular Materials from 1995-2005. He is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Information Displays (Taylor and Francis). He edited 5 Volumes of Ferroelectrics, 5 Volumes of MCLC (Taylor and Francis), one Volume of Journal of Molecular Structure and 3 Volumes of Molecular Liquids. He is the author and Editor of the Advances in Liquid Crystals 2000, published by Wiley. This was translated to Chinese and sold widely.

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I specialize in the field of electro-optical and spectroscopic properties of liquid crystals for applications in photonics and displays. Our current interest is focused on investigating de Vries smectics which should exhibit almost zero layer shrinkage in going from SmA to SmC* phase. Our secondary interest is in discovering new temperature induced and field induced subphases in antiferroelectric liquid crystals other than the standard 2, 3 and 4 layers. We discovered a number of field induced suphases. We discovered 5 layer, 7 layer and 8 layer temperature induced subphases. These have now been verified by resonant X-rays. In the recent past we discovered the twist-bend nematic phase in bimesogens/dimers based on cyanobiphenyls and difuoroterphenyls. I have been the Project Co-ordinator and the Principal Investigator of two large EU projects on Liquid Crystals, Science Programme (1990-93) and the Human Capital and mobility programme (1994-97). Both of these projects were approved by the Science/Physics Committee of the EU. Under the 5th programme, I was a partner in two projects (i) Liquid Crystalline dendrimers and (ii) Synclinic and Anticlinic (SAMPA) Liquid Crystals. These were successfully completed. I was granted a two year project by the American Chemical Society on glass science in 1999. In 2000, I was also awarded a basic research grant to work on the dynamic pyroelectric effect, strategic project on low k, and 2 Science Foundation of Ireland grants. I was awarded 2 major projects of ~1.35 M Euro by the Science Foundation of Ireland, under one of which Professor A. Fukuda was appointed for two years as a SFI Research Professor. Under FP7 I was one of the 7 PI's in a BIND project. The project started in Feb. 2008. Trinity share of the total budget was over Euro 400,000. This project was completed in Feb 2012.As a result of these projects, important discoveries were made by my research group. The notable one is twist-bend nematic phase. I had two TIDA projects in 2010 and 2012. Funding in each of these was of the order of Euro 95,000. These were successfully completed too. The other Research Professors appointed were Professor Antoni Kocot [2008-2009] (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) and Professor S. Kumar (2012-2013) RRI, Bangalore, India. These collaborative grants were awarded on the basis of the throughput of my research group. I have currently SFI PI project under Ireland -US collaborative project 2014-2017 on de Vries smectics. We have published extensively in top ranking Journals.