Dr. Rajeev Ahuja is the present IIT Ropar director. He joined his office as the director on 1st April 2021. Dr. Ahuja is a top Materials scientist, and a highly cited researcher in both India & Sweden. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee in 1992. After that, he joined Uppsala University, Sweden as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he is also a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden for Computational Materials science.