Multifragmentation in Heavy-Ion Reactions: Theory and Experiments

Rajeev K. Puri is the chairperson of the Department of Physics, and the university coordinator of RUSA (National Higher Education Mission), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He earned his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics in 1991 from Panjab University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Germany, and a visiting scientist at Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de Nantes, France. Prof. Puri is a recipient of the Young Scientist Research Award of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India; S. N. Satyamurthy Memorial Award conferred by the Indian Physics Association; and various Himachal Excellence Awards.

Yu-Gang Ma is a professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He earned his PhD in July 1994 from the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research (now Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, SINAP) and was promoted to be a full professor in December 1994 at SINAP shortly after graduation. He has been a Wang Kuan Cheng fellow at LPC Caen, France, and a visiting scholar at the Texas A&M University, USA. Prof. Ma was elected as an academician member of CAS in 2017 and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015. He has served as the chief scientist of the 973 Program, a basic research national program of PR China. He has been honored with the OCPA AAA (Robert T. Poe Prize) in 2015.

Arun Sharma is assistant professor of physics in Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He earned his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Jammu, India. He has been the organizing secretary of two national and three state-level science conferences and has also been invited to deliver a talk at the International Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics in Heavy-Ion Reactions (IWND2018), held at Huzhou University, Zhejiang, and to visit the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. He has chaired sessions in international conferences. Dr Sharma has received letters of appreciation from several organizations, including one from NGPE, Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). He has published several research papers in national and international journals of repute. He is also the corresponding editor of this book.