Good day, Dr. Farooz Ahmad Najar. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

Good afternoon.

And thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak.

Here my name is Doctor Piro Zaman Najar and I'm currently a research scientist.

And molecular simulations laboratory and with planning over campus.

I have been working on the quantum materials and computational nano science.

As far as my academics is concerned, I have had my implant PhD in physics with a strong.

Focus on computational condensing matter and quantum mechanical modeling.

Apart from these.

My focus has also been also being.

To the synthesis of materials, especially for spreads and.

Other nanomaterials.

My current research focuses on the integration and functionalization of the quantum systems will.

And the particular focus has been drug delivery and quantum dot assisted tumor imaging.

In biomedical nanotechnology.

During a year.

Career pursuits I have also worked as a.

Project Fellow.

In nanometer research laboratory at government degree college women and banak.

During my work was active, I was actively involved in the.

Carbon nano 2%. The characterization of these carbon nanotubes.

Then later on.

During my.

PhD during my MPEL and PSD.

I turned my focus on.

Quantum mechanical modeling using the software software is like using theoretical approaches like density functional theory.

Quantum

After completing my.

PhD I finally joined as a research scientist here at BITS and I have been working here from the last two years.

Understood. You focused on quantum mechanical

I also have expertise in lots of softwares.

Got it,

That deal with the quantum mechanical modeling, especially software like Quantum ATK, Quantum Espresso, Vin 2K.

Uh, glomax activators that are that go good with molecular dynamics like Gromax.

And other softwares like Pymol.

Etcetera.

Apart from density comes from theory I am also equipped with, I also have a good expertise in time dependent density functional theory.

Over the last two years, our research has been preliminary focused on.

Using quantum dots.

As agendas in conjugation with various biological proteins.

And other chemo drugs.

For applications in the field or biomedical imaging and drug delivery.

I would love to contribute.

At the beautiful campus of Vellore in astute of technology, I believe that the conditional environment there will also will help in.

I

Professional development of myself and will also find.

Uh, they.

And they work at Psyche Premier Institute will also help me get noticed and also I would also love.

To contribute.

Uh, to the VIT by working in collaboration with the various nations and shooters.

Since my.

If surge is not only limited to the UH semiconductor technology and this biomedical applications, quantum mechanical modeling can be extended to various interdisciplinary fields.

Activity.

My aim will not only be directed to my work will not only be directed towards research. I would also love to contribute in teaching advanced subjects like quantum mechanics.

Advanced statistical mechanics, classical mechanics, language engine mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, etcetera.

I may now have the I may not have the documented group of teaching any teaching experience, but.

I have been actively involved in teaching.

Actually, during my doctoral pursuits.

At that point of time I was teaching subjects like quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, solid sleep physics.

There to the masters students.

This expertise of yours I would love.

To contribute to the.

Loading showed up technique, technology.

As far as as far as my.

I think she's not concerned.

My aim for the next two to three years will be prioritizing research in the fields of.

National priority is like national quantum mission.

Uh, and uh, also the semiconductor machine that our government has, uh.

That our government has.

And currently going on.

I would love to attract funding from national as well as.

International bodies.

Research based on quantum materials through the process of quantum mechanical modeling, since I also have some experience in.

To extend this.

Experimental domain as well, so I would also love to validate my.

Heretical.

Modeling and theoretical simulation results with my experimental counterpart.

So thank you again.

For giving me the chance to speak here.

I once again.

Would say that I would love to contribute and the pivotal and Asthota, uh, well, or in a shut up technology with my heart and I will sort of making.

The department that is the center of the functional materials.

I will try to.

Extend the research layer and it will be an honour for me also to.

Seek knowledge from such a beautiful faculty that is already existing in there.

Department, thank you once again.

And.

I will proceed on with the arrest part of question.

Thank you, Professor. Let's now proceed directly into evaluating expertise aligned with the core responsibilities of this position. I'll start with your expertise in quantum materials and related areas. Can you elaborate on a specific research project or study you supervised in this domain that showcased your proficiency in material science and quantum mechanics?

Yeah, actually.

Actually, during my PhD I have had a masters group.

UH of students while in we were working on UH.

What am I saying to my dealers then? We have explored the.

Uh, Rambo, Hetal and the monoclinic phases of LA2, Nim and Osix.

This is actually a developer for Skype and during this project we were successful in determining the spontaneous polarization of this material using topological states.

And the paper also got published in.

So that's a documented group of my project that I have handled that during my PSC.

Physical solidar status B. Let's widely publication.

Impressive, Professor. Given this foundational work and the documented success, how do you envision contributing to the current challenges in quantum material research, such as improving scalability, minimizing defects in synthesis, or achieving better integration with existing technologies?

My answer to this question will be.

Yes.

Using continuous iterations and optimization.

Optimization is the key route towards scalability.

As well as towards.

Improving the results and then going to the experimentals domain.

Uh, since we.

How already uh discussed about this using quantum mechanical modeling.

Uh, using better functionals?

Using better optimizations.

We can achieve our modeling results that can be includes proximity to the experimental validations.

So my aim always will be.

Whenever we will be doing some molecular modeling or quantum mechanical modeling.

focused

Uh, I will be experimentally validating it side by side too. Experimental procedures so that scalability.

Can be achieved very cautiously.

Got it, Professor. Considering your approach of simultaneous validation, what metrics or parameters would you prioritize when experimentally corroborating your quantum mechanical modeling results for scalable quantum materials?

I would like to say that since all the quantum properties cannot are not measurable.

Because of the fine tuning of the quantum environment, we can't have measurements and that we receive, but at least.

When we are measuring, when we are.

I'm selling observably umm this quantum mechanical aspects of materials, so we should be at least in a direction that our experimental and this quantum results are not having that much of a difference.

And the logic should pre prevail.

For example, the trends, if not the measurements. The measurements cannot be accurate because here we are dealing with the quantum domain and then in the experimental phenomena we are dealing with the microscopic objects. So the measurements will not be accurate, but at least the trends.

Should be consistent with each other.

So our first priority will be in.

Investigating the trends between the quantum aspects.

Uh, between the quantum aspects and then the experimental procedures?

Understood, Professor. That consistency in trends is indeed critical when bridging quantum modeling and experimental validation. Moving forward, let's evaluate your ability to teach theory and laboratory courses. Can you walk me through how you would structure a graduate-level course in quantum mechanics, emphasizing both theoretical concepts and practical understanding?

I would love to answer this question in a way like that, my first priority.

Yeah.

Will be to make understand the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

The problem here.

Going on.

In the research of quantum materials is that we actually don't the students actually don't have any knowledge about the quantum mechanics. The since because of complexity of the quantum mechanics we are not able to understand all these.

To understand the complex, uh, phenomena in the materials as well during the research part. So my first and foremost concern will be.

Phenomenas and differences, so there it becomes a problem.

To make understand the basics and fundamentals of quantum mechanics starting from Schrodinger equation, starting from Poly is exclusion principle starting from divergent equations. So first of all my.

That's still beyond clearing and explaining the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to the master students. Then afterwards I would like to introduce density function with A and their courses.

Part by part so that the students will get.

No half density function theory and then our.

Final aim will be to.

Educate the students about the quantum mechanical software which are very advanced softwares like Gaussian like vein 2K like quantum espresso like Gromacs that deals with molecular dynamics. So my first priority will be to make understand the fundamentals of.

Quantum mechanics and then jumping to the next level by introducing the student is to complex problems of quantum making is and then finally having address on sessions, uh, of these, uh, complex softwares so that the students can have the experience of using the software and then different types of problems and resurg.

Gaps will be given to them so that they can individually.

Explore that field.

Thank you, Professor. That planned progression—from fundamentals to advanced methodologies and hands-on experience with computational tools—is commendable and aligns well with fostering strong conceptual and practical understanding. Now, turning to evaluation and exam responsibilities, how would you approach constructing assessments that fairly test both theoretical grasp and applied knowledge in quantum mechanics?

As far as?

The evaluation and the examinations.

Of the students is concerned.

I device.

My papers mostly based on quantum, mostly based on quantum mechanical problems.

Got it.

Those the ideas about those problems will be already discussed in our.

Uh, glasses.

Then introducing such quantum mechanical problems in their examinations will directly allow me to understand how far the students are getting, how far the students are.

I'm hooking up with the various quantum mechanical problems which itself are very complex.

So my focus will be step by step introducing.

Introducing complex problems in the setting of papers.

And also checking their conceptual knowledge by taking questions, by introducing questions in their papers so that I can have an idea about how much my students are going.

Understanding these complex uh, problems of quantum mechanics. So only then I can introduce more complexity into into their exams. Regarding the evaluation, the evaluation will be based upon the.

OK, attempting potential of this student. If for example, I can see that a student has approached the problem in the right way, he has used his minds and approached the problem no matter since as we know, the mechanical derivations are very tough, sometimes they get very lengthy. No matter about the exact answering of these problems, I would always love to see the mind.

On the student, how he approaches the problem and what he has written there, what does it reflect about the quantum mechanical solution? Does it align with the? Does it align with the pattern we should be actually approaching the problem? That is what matters for me because that approach, if the student gets that approach, I will be feeling much better than my teaching has been successful, at least in getting.

They need to approach the problem in a right.

manner. Got it.

Hello.

Am I done?

Professor, would you like me to proceed with additional questions or conclude the interview? Please confirm.

Yeah. Let's please conclude the interview. I hope that.

I was quite.

Good in answering some questions.

So and it was a very good interaction. I would once again thank vid for giving me a chance.

To speak to them and I will be highly thankful to them if they if I am given the chance to teach quantum mechanics and do some research related quantum materials at VIP, that will be a very great feeling for me. I would love to serve the beautiful campus of VID Thank you very much again for the interview.

Hope I will see you again.

Thank you, Professor, for your insights and sharing your expertise. Just to confirm, are you ready to officially conclude the interview?

Yeah, Thank you. Let's conclude the interview from here.