Dr Ambesh Dixit is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. He joined IIT Jodhpur in July 2011 and created a research group on Multifunctional Materials from Theory to Experiment. The objective of research is Materials’ design and engineering for various applications such as nanostructured materials for alternative energy (both solar photovoltaic and solar thermal) generation and storage, electronic materials for multistate memory devices, and multifunctional materials for strategic applications.