Prof. Satya Prakash Tiwari

Prof. Satya Prakash Tiwari got early education in village Primary School Barauli, Junior High School Railway Station Mota and National Inter College Bhogaon, in BrijBhumi of Uttar Pradesh. He obtained B.Sc. Degree from Agra College and M.Sc. and D. Phil. Degrees from Allahabad University. He was Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics, Dean Faculty of Science and U.G.C. Emeritus Fellow at Panjab University Chandigarh and Vice Chancellor of Jiwaji University Gwalior. He is among World top 2% Scientists in the field of Material Science, published 412 research papers in reputed journals.He was also Research Fellow at Australian National University, Canberra, Research Associate at CNRS, France, Visiting Professor/Visiting Scientist at ESPCI and University of Paris VI, France, University of Duisburg, Germany, ICTP Trieste, Italy, AERE Harwell, U.K., Bell Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, and recipient of several awards including Burse, Joliot Curie, France, Higher Education and Development Award, New Delhi, Life Time Achievement Award ITDC and Membership, Kendriya Hindi Samiti, Rajbhasa Vibhag, Govt. of India.He has made significant contribution in the area of theoretical condensed matter physics particularly on Lattice Dynamics of Simple and Transition Metals, Magnetic Excitations in Metals, Electric and Strain Field Gradients in Dilute Alloys, Hydrogen Diffusion in Metals and Cuprates, Structural and Electronic properties of Nano Phase and Semiconducting materials. His scholarly book “Dynamics of Transition Metals and Alloys” (Nova Science, New York, 1998) is landmark in the physics of transition metals. He also contributed and edited: “Advances in Statistical Physics of Solids and Liquids” (John Wiley, New York 1990) and “Disordered Materials” (Narosa Publishers, New Delhi, 2003).He has also eminent social welfare contributions. As President of Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), he expressed his concerns about science education in India in volume “Vision for Science Education” (Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2014) and narrated his concerns about ethics in state university education in volume “Vulnerable Vice Chancellor” (Allied Publishers, Noida, 2023).The present volume is the narration of his concerns about transformation of university education from meritocratic system to marginal professionalism.