Amit Goyal
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Dr. Amit Goyal is a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and an ORNL Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee
. He is also the chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of High Temperature Superconductors. He holds more than 50 patent
s to his name.
, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. He received the degree of Bachelor of Technology Honors degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1986. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rochester
in 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the same institute in 1991. He has received Executive Business training from the Krannert Business School at Purdue University
and the MIT Sloan School of Management
.
The University of Rochester, New York, awarded him a Distinguished Scholar Medal and the Indian Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
. His research has proved pivotal in the development of single crystal like behaviour in long lengths of superconducting materials. He has contributed immensely in the development of wires that allow High Temperature Superconductors to be accepted by the market place and thus making it realistic. High Temperature Superconductors find applications in numerous areas such as transformer
s, generator
s, motor
s, magnet
s, underground transmission cables and fault current limiter
s. Widely accepted as the leading researcher in the field of High Temperature Superconductors, his main aim is to enable large scale production and application of High Temperature Superconductors. He has over 50 patents and over 300 publications to his name. A recent analysis of citations and papers published world-wide in the last decade in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, between 1999–2009, conducted by Thompson-Reuters’s Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ranks him as the most cited author worldwide.
He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of NanoTech Briefs, the Journal of the Korean Institute of Applied Superconductivity, Recent Patents on Materials Science and Superconductor Science & Technology. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Materials Research and the Journal of the American Ceramics Society, and has served as Guest Editor for the TMS publication, Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials (JOM). He is also the chair-elect of the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society.
He is a fellow of seven prestigious profesional societies including the American Physical Society
, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
, the ASM International
, the World Innovation Foundation, the Institute of Physics
and the American Ceramic Society
and the World Technology Network.
, Dr. Amit Goyal now lives in Knoxville
. He is married to Sujata. He has two children named Aditya and Divya.
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
. He is also the chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of High Temperature Superconductors. He holds more than 50 patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s to his name.
Education
He did his schooling at the prestigious Mayo CollegeMayo College
Mayo College is a public school founded by the 6th Earl of Mayo, who was Viceroy of India from 1869 to 1872.The school is located in Ajmer, in the state of Rajasthan, India....
, in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. He received the degree of Bachelor of Technology Honors degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1986. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rochester
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
in 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the same institute in 1991. He has received Executive Business training from the Krannert Business School at Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
and the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
.
The University of Rochester, New York, awarded him a Distinguished Scholar Medal and the Indian Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Career
He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 1991. His primary focus has been High Temperature Superconductivity. He works in the field of low cost, large area, high performance, flexible electronic devices including superconductors and photovoltaicsPhotovoltaics
Photovoltaics is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaic power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material...
. His research has proved pivotal in the development of single crystal like behaviour in long lengths of superconducting materials. He has contributed immensely in the development of wires that allow High Temperature Superconductors to be accepted by the market place and thus making it realistic. High Temperature Superconductors find applications in numerous areas such as transformer
Transformer
A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...
s, generator
Generator
Generator may refer to:* Electrical generator* Engine-generator, an electrical generator, but with its own engine.* Generator , any of several closely related usages in mathematics.Computing:...
s, motor
Motor
Motor is a device that creates motion. It usually refers to an engine of some kind. It may also specifically refer to:*Electric motor, a machine that converts electricity into a mechanical motion...
s, magnet
Magnet
A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets.A permanent magnet is an object...
s, underground transmission cables and fault current limiter
Fault current limiter
A Fault Current Limiter is a device which limits the prospective fault current when a fault occurs . The term is generally applied to superconducting devices, whereas non-superconducting devices are typically termed Fault Current Controllers...
s. Widely accepted as the leading researcher in the field of High Temperature Superconductors, his main aim is to enable large scale production and application of High Temperature Superconductors. He has over 50 patents and over 300 publications to his name. A recent analysis of citations and papers published world-wide in the last decade in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, between 1999–2009, conducted by Thompson-Reuters’s Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ranks him as the most cited author worldwide.
Awards and Honours
He has received numerous internal and external, national & international awards of excellence including:- 2011 R&D100 Award
- 2011 National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award
- 2010 R&D 100 Magazine’s “Innovator of the Year” Award,
- Two 2010 R&D100 Awards
- 2010 ASM-IIM Distinguished Lecturer Award
- 2009 R&D100 Award
- 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- 2008 Nano50TM Innovator Award
- 2008 National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award
- 2007 R&D100 award
- 2007 MICRO/NANO 25 Award
- 2007 Pride of India Gold Award
- University of Rochester’s 2006 Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal
- 2006 ASM-IIM Distinguished Lecturer Award
- 2006 Nano 50 Award
- 2006 UT-Battelle Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
- 2005 Exceptional Accomplishment Award from US-Department of Energy
- 2005 UT-Battelle Inventor-of-the-Year Award
- 2005 Global Indus Technovator Award
- 2004 Exceptional Accomplishment Award from US-Department of Energy
- 2004 Outstanding Young Tennessean Award by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce
- 2003 Exceptional Accomplishment Award from US-DOE
- 2002 Technology Transfer Appreciation Award from American Superconductor Corporation in 2002
- 2001 National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award
- 2001 Energy-100 award for the finest 100 scientific accomplishments of the US Department of Energy since it opened its doors in 1977
- 1999 MITMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
Technology ReviewTechnology ReviewTechnology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as "The Technology Review", and was re-launched without the "The" in its name on April 23, 1998 under then publisher R. Bruce Journey...
TR100TR35The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.Some of the most famous winners of the award include Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Linus Torvalds , Jerry Yang , Jonathan Ive , Mark Zuckerberg...
Award, - 1999 ORNL Inventor of the Year Award for sustained accomplishments
- 1999 R&D 100 Award for developing the RABiTS Technology
- 1999 R&D Sustained ORNL Development Accomplishment Award
- 1999 American Museum of Science & Technology’s “Tribute to Tennessee Technology” Award
- 1999 R&D Significant Development Accomplishment Award at ORNL
- 1999 World-Class Teamwork Award at ORNL
- 1997 Lockheed-Martin NOVA Award for technical achievement
- 1997 R&D Significant Technical Accomplishment Award at ORNL
- 1996 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Materials Science Award for technical achievement in Solid State Physics.
He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of NanoTech Briefs, the Journal of the Korean Institute of Applied Superconductivity, Recent Patents on Materials Science and Superconductor Science & Technology. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Materials Research and the Journal of the American Ceramics Society, and has served as Guest Editor for the TMS publication, Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials (JOM). He is also the chair-elect of the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society.
He is a fellow of seven prestigious profesional societies including the American Physical Society
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
, the ASM International
ASM International
ASM International, formerly known as the American Society for Metals, is a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers working with metals....
, the World Innovation Foundation, the Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
and the American Ceramic Society
American Ceramic Society
The American Ceramic Society is a non-profit professional organization for the ceramics community, with a focus on scientific research, emerging technologies, and applications in which ceramic materials are an element...
and the World Technology Network.
Personal life
Born in IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Dr. Amit Goyal now lives in Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...
. He is married to Sujata. He has two children named Aditya and Divya.