IIT-Delhi researcher Mohammad Adnan selected for Lindau Nobel Laureate meet

New Delhi: A research scholar from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Mohammad Adnan, has been selected for the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting taking place in Lindau, Germany this year.

Adnan is currently a doctoral student under the supervision of professor G Vijaya Prakash, Nanophotonics Labs, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi.

Adnan is among 600 most qualified young scientists from around the globe who would interact with 42 other researchers (also Nobel Laureate) selected for this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting.


“This is an excellent opportunity where 600 most young talented research students from 88 countries around the world are selected to interact with the Nobel laureates from the world,” Adnan told ET.

“These interactions will help us get new ideas from other researchers,” he said. Adnan is currently working on high intensity ultra-fast light matter interaction of special kind of metal organic framework which is very useful for advance optoelectronic devices.

“These materials are very cost effective with very high quantum efficiency,” he said. These lasers can also be used for medical treatment and manufacturing.

Each year since 1951, Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine have been meeting in Lindau, Germany, to discuss major issues of importance to their fields with students from around the world. The meetings include lectures, panel/ round-table discussions on interdisciplinary topics and informal small- group meetings with the Nobel Prize winners.

The Department of Science & Technology (DST) has been sending a group of students /young researchers to these meetings, since 2001. This time, the 69th Noble Laureate Meeting is dedicated to Physics.