Dr. Sajal

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mechanics
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: sajal[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: N/A(O) N/A(R)

Other Academic Achievements

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

Sajal & Roy, P. (2024), “A finite deformation micropolar peridynamic theory and its application to metamaterials”, 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM/PANACM), July 21-26, 2024, Vancouver, Canada (ID: W241289).

Sajal & Roy, P. (2024), “Peridynamics Simulation of Wave Isolation in Metamaterials”, 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), June 3-7, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal (ID: 356).

Award and Honors:

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship – Seal of Excellence, European Commission, 2025 (Score: 94.2/100).

National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) at IIT Madras from Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India, 2025.

Inder Mohan Thapar Research (IMTR) Award for best research article at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, accompanied by the cash prize of Rs. 32,000.

International Travel Grant (ITS) from ANRF for participating in the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM/PANACM), Canada.

Certificate of appreciation for receiving the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF), December Cycle-2020 & bringing laurels to IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India.

Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) scholarship by the Government of India during M.Tech. and Ph.D.

Secured All India Rank 285 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) exam, 2012.

Ranked top 10% among 12th-grade students in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the National Standard Examination in Physics (NSEP) 2007, India.

On-going Projects:

"Mechanics and Design of Reconfigurable Metamaterials for Tunable Elastic-Wave Propagation", from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad (Prayagraj), India, under Seed Grant (File No.: 723/R&C/2026-27 dated 28-09-2026). PI (Sole) (Grant: INR 5,00,000/-). Started on 28-09-2026.

Projects Completed:

"Design and Development of Mechanical Metamaterials for Noise Attenuation and Impact Mitigation", ANRF, Government of India, under the National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF) Scheme (File No.: PDF/2025/001211 dated 27-10-2025). PI (Sole) (Grant: INR 30,96,000/-) Nov 2025 – Nov 2027 (Project pre-closed on 16-03-2026), Mentor: Prof. Phanisri Pradeep Pratapa, IIT Madras, Chennai.