Dr. Jai Prakash is an Assistant Professor in Physics Department of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh since 2015. He worked as an Assistant Professor in Central University of Punjab, Bathinda for more than two years. He received his M. Sc. degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 2003 and Ph. D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi in 2010. During his doctoral studies, he investigated the effect of nano-materials on the electro-optical properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals. In 2010, he began postdoctoral studies at Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA. During his postdoctoral fellowship, he worked on nonlinear optical effects in colloidal suspensions. He has 38 publications in highly reputed international journals with nearly 700 citations and holds two patents in the area of liquid crystal devices. He is also the recipient of prestigious INSPIRE Faculty Award (Awadred by DST, New Delhi). His current activities include research on liquid crystal based electro-optical devices, nonlinear effects in colloidal suspensions and liquid crystals.