Shimla: Professor in the Department of Physics, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla Shashi Kumar has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur.
He has been appointed by Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar for the next three years.
A notification regarding this order has been issued from the Secretariat of Governor, Raj Bhawan.
Professor Kumar has been the founding Vice-Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh Technical University. He was presently serving as the Professor in the Department of Physics in HPU.
He is a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Nuclear Sciences and has published over a hundred research papers and has guided as many as 24 research scholars for their PhD and M. Phil degree thesis.