Biography
Prof. Mrinal Pal
Prof. Mrinal Pal
CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI), India
Biography: 
Dr. Pal carried out his research work at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and got Ph.D. degree in 1997 from Jadavpur University. He started his Post-Doctoral venture with a short term assignment at University of Roma, Italy under the framework of an Indo-Italy exchange project. He successfully completed the prestigious Science and Technology Association (STA) fellowship of Govt. of Japan during 1998-2000. He also made a short term visit to Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics, MOSCOW under an Indo-Russian exchange project
Dr. Pal joined as a Lecturer in Physics at The University of Burdwan in May 2002 in Solid State Physics group. He moved to CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), a premier research institute, in 2010 as Principal Scientist. Presently, he is a Senior Principal Scientist (Professor) at CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI) and fully involved in synthesis of materials and fabrication of devices in the area of nanomaterials based semiconductor gas sensors prepared by chemical route for monitoring environment and human health.
He has published more than 110 research articles in the International Journals of high repute. Dr. Pal has supervised 7 Ph.D.’s, 2 candidates are in the pipelines. He completed 10 Major Research Projects and 2 are ongoing sanctioned by different funding agencies. He contributed 5 Chapters in the different important books including Encyclopaedia on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has also delivered several Plenary talks in the conferences, acted as a Chairman for various technical sessions and also organised many conferences in various capacities. 
He has been serving as one of the potential Referees to various International Leading Journals of ACS, RSC, Elsevier, Springer-verlag, Wiley and many Indian journals. He is also serving /served as key members in various research bodies. To mention few, he has served as an Advisory Board member of South African Nanoscience Initiative (SANi). Also, he is Executive committee member of West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology. Dr. Pal served as Member in Apex body (Court) of The University of Burdwan, Planning committee member of West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology. He received Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal in 2016. Dr. Pal became a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology in 2018.