Aadil Bathla

Aadil Bathla joined the DST-Nanomission project (Govt. of India) in 2016 at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India, as a JRF (junior research fellow), following his completion of a Master’s degree in Chemistry (2015) with an inorganic specialization from Punjabi University Patiala, India. Later, he enrolled in a Ph.D. (2017) in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and was awarded a doctoral degree in January 2021. He was selected for the prestigious CSIR-SRF (2019) fellowship award by the Government of India. His doctoral study focused on fabricating bimetallic core-shell nanocatalysts and their TiO2 nanocomposites for the photocatalytic hydrogenation of industrially relevant organic compounds.

About his international journey, Dr. Aadil worked for two years (2021-2023) as a postdoctoral fellow in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. He worked in the area of air quality management and the application of advanced functional materials with an emphasis on the analysis and control of environmental pollution. In 2023-24, Dr. Aadil joined Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay (ICMMO), Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France. He devoted his time and energy to synthesizing high-entropy oxides for photo and photo-electrochemical hydrogen production. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the MEL group at the Nanotechnology Center, CEET, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, working on single-atom-based photocatalysts for biomass valorization and ethanol upgrading. He has published 16 research articles in reputable international journals and contributed to four invited book chapters.