Invited Speaker

Prof. Dr. Alok Srivastava, is a distinguished chemist and academician with over 40 years of experience in research, teaching, and international scientific collaboration. He has been recognized globally for his scientific contributions, holding prestigious fellowships from Department of Atomic Energy (Government of India), Indian Chemical Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and European Community.

His research spans Nuclear Chemistry, Material Science, Radiation Biology, Environmental and Geoscience, Public Health and Nuclear Safeguards. He has published nearly 100 papers and delivered over 150 invited lectures worldwide.

He has served as Professor and Chairman of Centre for Advanced Studies in Chemistry of Panjab University Chandigarh and continues to work as Adviser/Consultant in the Centre for Industry Institute Partnership of the University. He is also associated with Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam as an Advisor.

He was invited to work as DAAD Professor in a German University to establish “European Master of Science in Nuclear Applications” an international academic program focused on peaceful applications of Nuclear Science. As Distinguished Professor and Scientific Advisor to Pahle India Foundation, a leading think tank of India he has been actively involved in combating environmental lead poisoning. He remains a prominent voice on science popularization.

Prof. Angalakuduru Durga Prasada Rao was joined in the nuclear physics department of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India as a faculty member in the year 1994. Since March 2009; he has been working as a professor of nuclear physics department. He is presently serving as chairman to the PG board of studies in the department. During July 2009- November 2016, he was served as head of the department, during which Project work was introduced in the 4th semester of M.Sc., course. Students were made to visit many DAE organizations namely BARC, IGCAR, VECC, RRCAT etc. He was served as Registrar of Vikrama Simhapuri University (VSU), Nellore during 2018-19, met the challenges in building this new University, thus worked hard to get approval from government for construction of new buildings and foundation laid for development of infrastructure. The university won NSS award at national level and received it in New Delhi. He has also been serving in the governing bodies, enquiry committees and board of studies related to reputed institutes and organizations.

His areas of research interest include applied radiation physics such as elemental analysis with nuclear techniques, material science and medical physics. He has around 143 research publications in reputed international and national journals along with presentations in conferences. Supervised 22 PhD and 7 M.Phil. scholars besides several M.Sc., project works. He was carried major projects sanctioned by funding agencies by SERB, BRNS, AERB etc, visited Japan, USA, Russia and UK for presentation of research work in the conferences. He has received BEST TEACHER award from the government of AP in the year 2025. Besides that, several awards were received from different scientific and non-governmental organizations.