Dr. Arghya Narayan Banerjee is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and IT Engineering, Yeungnam University (YU), South Korea. He was one of the five WCU Faculty members at YU. After finishing his Ph.D. (2005) from Jadavpur University, India, he joined University of Nevada and University of Colorado at Boulder, USA before moving to YU.
Arghya is the recipient of National Scholarship, Govt. of India and winner of CSIR fellowship – an all-India-based Young Scientist hunt. He is the member of Electrochemical Society, Indian Physical Society, Materials Research Society and Electron Microscopy Society of India. He is the Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Nanomaterials Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISSN: 2455-3492), Associate Editor, ScienceJet Journal (ISSN 2278-3393), Associate Editor, Global Journal of Nanomedicine (Juniper Publishers), Associate Editor, International Journal of Information Communication Technology and Digital Convergence (ISSN 2508-2620-Online) Lead Guest Editor of the journal Reviews in Advanced Sciences and Engineering (American Scientific Publisher).
Arghya’s research interests include Nanostructured Thin Films, Wide Bandgap Metal Oxides, Transparent Nano-Electronics, Carbon-Based High Surface Area Materials (Graphene, CNT, Micro/Mesoporous Carbon, Graphitic Carbon etc.) for Hydrogen Storage, Field Emission Devices for Vacuum Microelectronics, Transparent Thin Film Junctions for UV-Based Solar Cells, Layered Materials for Thermoelectric Converters, Polymer/Metal-Oxide Nanocomposites for Super-Capacitors, Catalytic/Photocatalytic Degradation of Water-Soluble Toxic Wastes and other types of Waste-Managements for Environmental Remediation, Micro/Nanofluidics, among others.
Currently, Arghya has two books, six book chapters/invited review articles, 120 peer-reviewed articles and several conference proceedings to his credit, with more than 3000 citations and Google-Scholar based H-index of 26 and i10-index of 54 (as of Sept. 2019).