
International recognition for ANU professor
The Hindu
N. Veeraiah has featured in top 2% ranks of scientists announced by Stanford University
Acharya Nagarjuna University’s physics professor(UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow) N. Veeraiah has featured in the top 2% ranks of scientists announced by Stanford University.
Among the 2,69,833 names of scientists identified as rankers in the physics and astronomy segment worldwide, Prof. Veeraiah has been ranked 3,867. Among Indian scientists, he is ranked 49th and first in Andhra Pradesh. Messages congratulating him poured in from across the State and outside.
Equipped with 40 years of research and 34 years of teaching experience, Prof. Veeraiah has published around 350 research articles in various internationally reputed journals and has handled research projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He is a visiting Professor of Jan Dlugosz University, Poland and has visited several foreign Universities in Itay, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Germany on academic assignments.

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