Dr. Ashim Kumar Bain, received his M.Sc. (Physics) degree in 1989 from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh, and his Ph.D. (Materials Science) degree from Dniepropetrovsk State University, Ukraine, in 1994. He was a postdoctoral research fellow (1995-1998) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Presently he has been working as a freelance Physicist in Birmingham, UK. He has published 15 articles, two book chapters and one book.