Professor Pramod Rastogi of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausane, Switzerland will be making a collaborative visit to UTM from October 6 to 9.

Professor Rastogi received his MSc degree from the University of Lucknow, MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, and doctorate degree from the University of Franche Comté in France.

His research activities are principally in the area of holographic interferometry, speckle metrology, fiber optics sensors, phase shifting and moiré.

Professor Rastogi is the author or coauthor of more than 175 scientific papers of which more than 135 are published in peer-reviewed archival journals. He is also the author of book chapters, Encyclopaedia articles, and has edited several books in the field of optical metrology.

He guest-edited three special sections on “Optics in Switzerland” for Optical Engineering in 1995, which are, until today an invaluable source of reference relative to optical engineering activities in Switzerland both at the academic and industrial levels.

He has guest-edited over a dozen special dedicated issues in archival journals. Currently, he is the Co-Editor-in-Chief, International journal of Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Elsevier, London since March 1999.

He is instrumental in helping to open up a range of mobility and internship opportunities to the EPFL students besides setting up the EPFL-IIT Madras joint postgraduate course on “Technology and sustainable development” in 2000-01.

He is seeking collaboration opportunities with UTM through various meetings with heads of departments of the university.