Dr. Manoj Baloni is currently Head of Department of Physics at SGRR (PG) College (affiliated to HNB Garhwal University Srinagar) Dehradun Uttarakhand, India. He did his M.Sc. in Physics in 1998 from University of Roorkee (currently IIT Roorkee), M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in 2000 from Kurukshetra University Haryana and Ph.D. in Physics in 2023 from SGT University Gurugram Haryana. He has a number of research publications in the field of material science to his credit, and he has presented the many papers at international and national conferences.