Rajan Saini is a materials physicist with more than seven years of teaching experience and sixteen years of research experience in synthesizing and characterizing thin films/coatings, nanostructures, gas sensors and oxide glasses/ceramics for functional applications. He completed his PhD in 2015 from Guru Nanak Dev University, India.. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University, USA from 2018 to 2021 in a US Department of Energy funded project on developing advanced high-level nuclear waste glass formulations. He is the Head, Department of Physics at Akal University, India since 2022 and is currently working at Rutgers University, USA in collaboration with national labs in a US Department of Energy sponsored project to design advanced cermet formulations for disposal of nuclear waste from advanced reactors in the USA. He has published more than 20 research articles in and 5 book chapters.