1. Assistant Professor (Stage-I), Department of Physics, North Orissa University, Baripada from December 2009 to March 2010
2. Assistant Professor (Stage-I), Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from March 2010 to August 2014
3. Assistant Professor (Stage-II), Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from August 2014 to August 2019
4. Assistant Professor (Stage-III), Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from August 2019 to March 2020
5. Associate Professor, School of Physics, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur from March 2020 to Present
6. Visiting Associate, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune University from July 2010 to July 2016

Research Area

Cosmology; Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Research Guidance

1. Srikanta Panda, Awarded on September 2023 from Department of Physics, Utkal University
2. Chiranjibi Sahu, Continuing, G. M. University
3. Rakesh Kumar Bhatta, Continuing, G. M. University M. Phil. Candidates:
1. Dolagobinda Nanda
2. Smaranika Behera
3. Jyotshna Rani Sahoo
4. Prasanta Kumar Subudhi
5. Sangeeta Routray
6. Samapika Mallik
7. Kiran Naik

International Publications

1. Pramoda Kumar Samal, Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston, “Testing Isotropy of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 385, Issue 4, Page 1718-1728, [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 5.356 ]
2. Pramoda Kumar Samal, Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston “Signals of Statistical Anisotropy in WMAP Foreground Cleaned Maps.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 396, Issue 1, Pages: 511-522 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 5.356 ]
3. Pramoda Kumar Samal, Rajib Saha, Jacques Delabrouille, Simon Prunet,Pankaj Jain, Tarun Souradeep, “CMB Polarization and Temperature Power Spectra Estimation using Linear Combination of WMAP 5-yearMaps.” Astrophysical Journal, Volume 714, Issue 1, Pages: 840-851 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 7.43 ]
4. Pavan K. Aluri, Pramoda Kumar Samal, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston, “Effect of foregrounds on the cosmic microwave background radiation multipole alignment.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,Volume 414, Issue 2, Pages: 1032-1046 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 5.356 ]
5. Pranati Rath1 and Pramoda Kumar Samal2 “Testing isotropy of Cosmos with WMAP and PLANCK data.” Modern Physics Letters A, Volume 30, No. 27, 1550131 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 1.4 ]
6. Akhilesh P. Nandan, Sharmili Rudra, Himangshu Neog, S. Biswas, S. Mahapatra, B. Mohanty, P. K. Samal, “A simple technique for gamma ray and cosmic ray spectroscopy using plastic scintillator” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 824, No. 11, 606–608 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 1.265 ]
7. Pranati K. Rath, Pramoda Kumar Samal, Srikanta Panda, Debesh D. Mishra, Pavan K. Aluri “Testing statistical isotropy in cosmic microwave background polarization maps.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,Volume 475, Issue 2, Pages: 4357-4366 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 5.356 ]
8. Srikanta Panda, Pavan K. Aluri, Pramoda Kumar Samal, Pranati K. Rath, Pavan K. Aluri “Parity in Planck full-mission CMB temperature maps.” Astroparticle Physics,Volume 125, 102493 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 3.5 ]
9. Biswanath Rath1 , Asiri Nanayakkara2 , P. Mallick3 and P.K. Samal4 “SUSY quantum mechanics for PT symmetric systems.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences, Volume 88, Pages: 633-638 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 0.9 ]
10. Srikanta Panda, Pavan K. Aluri, Pramoda Kumar Samal, Pavan K. Aluri, Pranati K. Rath “Power Asymmetry in Planck Full-Mission CMB Temperature Maps.” Springer Proceedings in Physics ,Volume 277, 719–723 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: ]
11. Pramoda Kumar Samal, Siddhartha Sahu, Gangadhar Behera,"Design of tunable perfect absorber based on vanadium dioxide metasurface for sensing applications",Optik, Volume 311, Page 171878 [Index: WoS; Impact Factor: 3.1 ]
12. Biswanath Rath , Pravanjan Mallick and Pramoda Kumar Samal “Real spectra in isospectral non-hermitian Hamiltonian” The African Review of Physics, 9, 0027 [Index: Scopus; Impact Factor: ]
13. Biswanath Rath , Pravanjan Mallick and Pramoda Kumar Samal “A Study of Spectral Instability in V (x) = ix3 Through Internal Perturbation: Breakdown of Unbroken PT Symmetry ” The African Review of Physics, 10, 007 [Index: Scopus; Impact Factor: ]
14. Pramoda Kumar Samal, Pranati K. Rath, Srikanta Panda, Pavan K. Aluri, Debesh D. Mishra, 5 “Signal of Statistical Anisotropy in PLANCK Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Maps.” Springer Proceedings in Physics ,Volume 277, 697–701 [Index: Scopus; Impact Factor: ]

International Conferences

1. Asian School of Particles, Strings and Cosmology, at: Laforet Nasu, Hotels and Resorts, Nasu, Tochigi, Japan. September 25–September 29, 2006. [Index: ]
2. Testing Isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.I, International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India. December 17–21, 2007. [Index: ]
3. Workshop on Einstein’s Legacy in the new Millennium, at: Toshali Sands, Puri, India. December 15–22, 2005. [Index: ]
4. CMB Polarization Power Spectra Estimation., Cosmology Rapid Response Meeting at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. April 6–8 [Index: ]

National Conferences

1. “Discussion Meeting on Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics” At: Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India October 30–November 5, 2015 [Index: ]
2. “University workshop on National e-Governance Plan.” At: Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. November 2, 2012. [Index: ]
3. “National Conference on Understanding the Fundamental Interactions.” At: Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. March 27, 2012. [Index: ]
4. “Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy formation (ICCGF’09).” At: India Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. October 30–November 1, 2009. [Index: ]
5. Question of Isotropy of Universe.” In: Programme for the Associate FEST at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India. June 25–29, 2012. [Index: ]
6. “CMBPolarization Power Spectra Estimation.” In: Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, ICCGF’09 at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. October 30–November 1, 2009 [Index: ]
7. Testing Isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.” In: Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India. November 3–5, 2007. [Index: ]

Graduate Level:

1. DSE-I (Classical Dynamics & Relativity)
2. DSE-4 (Computational Physics

Post Graduate Level:

1. Classical Mechanics
2. Quantum Mechanics-II
3. Particle Physics
4. Modern Physics & Optics (Lab)
5. Computational Physics (Lab)
6. Nuclear & Particle Physics (Lab)
7. Experimental Aspects in Nuclear & Particle Physics
8. PHY-711 C: Theoretical Physics,
9. Research Methodology-I

Award, Honours and Achievements

1. Joint Secretary, Vani Vihar Physics Alumni Association from 2010 to 2019
2. Joint Secretary, Orissa Physical Society from 2012 to 2018
3. Patron member of Orissa Physics Society
4. Orissa Physical Society Young Scientist Award for Theory for the year 2013

Seminar / Symposia / Workshops / Short term Course organized

1. 1. “Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation (ICCGF’09).” At: India Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. October 30–November 1, 2009
2. 2. “Awareness workshop on the facilities of UGC-DAE Consortium for scientific research.” At: Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. March 23–24, 2012
3. 3. “National Conference on Understanding the Fundamental Interactions.” At: Department of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. March 27, 2012.
4. 4. “University workshop on National e-Governance Plan.” At: Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. November 2, 2012.
5. 5. “Discussion Meeting on Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics” At Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India October 30–November 5, 2015

Members of Professional Bodies

1. 1. Visiting Associate, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune University, from July 2010 to July 2016
2. 2. Patron member of Orissa Physics Society
3. 3. Joint Secretary, Orissa Physical Society 2012-2018
4. 4. Joint Secretary, Vani Vihar Physics Alumni Association 2010-2019

Extra Responsibility

1. 1. Dean of Students' Affairs
2. 2. Head of the School of Hindi
3. 3. Chairperson of the Board of Studies of the School of Botany
4. 4. Chairperson of the Departmental Research Committee of the School of Biotechnology
5. 5. Coordinator of the School of Zoology.