Prof. Nitin K. Puri is an Associate Professor in Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), Delhi. He has been working at DTU since 2010. Prior to this he worked as an Assistant Professor in various colleges such as I.T.S. Engineering College, Greater Noida, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow since 2007. For, 2 years he was a lecturer in Amity School of Engineering (ASE), Amity University, Noida, from August 2005 - August 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2004, from Cyclotron Laboratory, Panjab University, Chandigarh. After his Ph.D. he did his post-doctoral research from Hong Hua Co. Ltd, Sichuan, China. His field of research lies in Gas sensors, Bio-sensors, Nanotechnology, Ion-Beam modification of materials, Thin films, 2D nanomaterials etc.

He is a lab in-charge of Advanced Sensor Lab (ASL) and Nanomaterials Research Laboratory (NRL) at DTU. The labs are solely based upon sensing applications, mainly gas and biosensing.

He is also a member of various scientific societies like:

• “The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)”, “The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)”, since 2016
• “Indian Society of Radiation Physics (ISRP)” since, 2001.
• He was a “Chairman” of the Working Group (WG-III), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at Vienna, Austria in the year of 2017.
• He was also a Member of National and International “Advisory Board” Electrical Energy: Safety and Conservation which was held at University of Delhi, in January 2016.
• He was “Vice Chairman” of the Working Group (WG-III), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria 2015.