Professor Anand is a faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Stavanger, Norway. His educational background includes an MSc and PhD from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. For the last 21 years he has been working in the field of low temperature physics and has authored 86 peer-reviewed research articles. His research activities are focused on magnetism, superconductivity and strongly correlated electron properties and involve neutron and muon techniques.