Shonak Bansal received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from Punjab Engineering College (deemed to be University), Chandigarh, India, focusing on graphene-based photodetectors. He is an Associate Professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at Chandigarh University, Mohali, India. His areas of research interest are nanophotonics, modeling of photodetectors, graphene-based photodetectors, mercury cadmium telluride-based infrared photodetectors, ZnO nanowires, solar cells, optical communication, soft-computing algorithms, and nature-inspired optimization algorithms. He has contributed as a peer reviewer for prestigious publishers. He is serving as an Academic Editor for Wiley, Scientific Reports, and PLOS ONE journals. He is also a Topical Advisory Panel Member for the Micromachines (MDPI) journal. He was awarded the Coursera Faculty Excellence Award for exceptional performance and outstanding progress in 2022 and the Best Researcher Award from the International Research Awards on Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies for his contribution and honorable achievement in innovative research in 2023. He has received the IoP (Institute of Physics) Trusted Reviewer and Outstanding Reviewer Award in recognition of an exceptionally high level of peer review competency in 2020, 2022, and 2024. He also received the India Top Cited Award 2022 in Materials as an author of the top 1% most-cited papers in IoP Publishing’s portfolio of journals from 2019–2021.
