Dr. Upadhyay has received Master in Physics from Banaras Hindu University in 1998, and Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He had his post-doctoral fellowship at "Laboratory of Chemical Physics and Microbiology for Environment " UMR-7564, CNRS-University of Henri Poincaré Nancy1, France; Mars-Mössbauer Group, Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenburg-Universität Mainz, Germany and IFF –Soft matter divison, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany. He joined School of Materials Science and Technology in February 2008.