Hello Everyone, Please help me out in evaluating my profile and with the shortlisting of grad schools. Thanks a lot. Name: Gaurav Modi College (not the name of the university awarding the degree): IIT Roorkee Branch: Metallurgical and materials engineering Field of Interest: Nanomaterials Degree Goal (MS/PhD): MS GPA/Percentage (Do not Convert to US Scale): 9.33 Toppers Percentage (or GPA): 9.65 Your rank in your class: 2 -------------------------------------------- GRE: 328 [158 (verbal) + 170 (quant)] (3.5 expected in AWA) Toefl: Yet to give --------------------------------------------- Internships: (If applicable) 1)May-July 2014: University of Kiel, Germany, Functional nanomaterials group Fabrication of different morphologies of ZnO nano-microstructures and study of their photocatalytic properties 2)May-July 2013: National Metallurgical Laboratory (Jamshedpur, India), Material science and technology division Quasiperiodic lattices and Penrose tiling (Quasicrystallography) -------------------------------------------------- Work Experiences (if any): None -------------------------------------------------- Submitted or Accepted Publications: Journal: 1) Penrose tiling and parity conditions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India (Springer), Impact Factor: not so high but peer-reviewed journal (Status: accepted) 2) Enhanced photocatalytic response of ZnO nano-tetrapods synthesized by FTS approach (Status: to be submitted to some Elsevier journal by October end) Conference: None Aggregate Publication Statistics: Journal: 1 (accepted) + 1 (submission pending) Conference: 0 --------------------------------------------------------- Projects: (If applicable) 1) Synthesis of CNT on 3-D electrodes for field emission (Ongoing B.Tech project) 2) Microwave absorption properties of nano-structured ZnO composites (Ongoing) --------------------------------------------------------- Recommendations: 1) Internship guide at University of Kiel, Germany (Strong) 2) B.Tech project guide at IIT Roorkee (Strong) 3) Professor at IIT Roorkee (Moderate) -------------------------------------------------------- Misc Achievements: DAAD-WISE scholarship (2014) + other
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