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D I R E C T O R
Sushanta Dattagupta

Condensed Matter Physics
(Theory)

Ph.D.- Physics (St.John's / Brookhaven National
Laboratory, 1973/74), FNA, FNASc, FASc, FTWAS
H O N O R A R Y     P R O F E S S O R S

Pandit Ajoy Chakraborti

Hindusthani Vocal Music

Sankar Chatterjee

Geoscience

Department of Geosciences,,
Texas Tech University, USA

Jainendra K. Jain

Physics

Department of Physics
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Kalyan B. Sinha

Mathematics

Theoretical Sciences Unit,
JNCASR, India

Ajay K. Sood

Physics

Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Science , India
P R O F E S S O R S

Sanjib Bagchi

Photochemistry,
Experimental Spectroscopy

Ph.D.- Chemistry (Calcutta, 1979)

Narayan Banerjee

Gravitation & Cosmomogy

Ph.D.- Physics (Jadavpur Univ., 1986)

Soumitro Banerjee

Nonlinear Dynamics

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (IIT
Delhi), FNA, FASc, FNAE

Chanchal  Das Gupta

Biology

Ph.D.- Biology (SINP,1974)
FNA, FNASc, FASc

Somnath Dasgupta

Geochemistry, Petrology

Ph.D.- Geology (Jadavpur,1979)
FNA, FNASc, FASc, FTWAS

Amitava Datta

High Energy Physics

Ph.D. - Physics (Viswa Bharati, 1974), FNA

Swapan Datta

Experimental Nuclear Physics

Ph.D.- Physics (North Carolina, 1974), FNASc

Bidyendu Mohan Deb

Theoretical Chemistry,
Chemical Physics

D.Phil (Oxon, 1969), FNA, FASc, FTWAS

Partha Pratim Majumder

Biostatistics, Human Genetics, Population Genetics

Ph.D. (ISI, Calcutta), 
FNA, FNASc, FASc, FTWAS

Prasanta Panigrahi

Field Theory

Ph.D. (University of Rochester, 1988)

A S S O C I A T E      P R O F E S S O R S

Asok K. Nanda

Reliabillity, Statistics

Ph.D. - Statistics (Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1998)

Joyanto Routh

Biogeochemistry, Organic geochemistry

Ph.D. - Geochemistry (Texas A&M University, USA , 1998)

Jayasri Das Sarma

Neural Cell Biology, Neuro Science 

Ph.D. - Immunology/Chemistry 
(Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1995)
A S S I S T A N T      P R O F E S S O R S
Saugata Bandyopadhyay

Partial Differential Equations, Differential Inclusions and
Calculus of Variations

Ph.D. - Mathematics (EPFL, 2007)

Subhajit Bandyopadhyay

Photochromic materials;
biomimetic chemistry

Ph.D. - Chemistry (Victoria, British Columbia, 2004)

Ayan Banerjee Precision Optical Spectroscopy;
Optical Sensors 
Ph. D. (IISc, Bangalore, 2005)

Rabeya Basu

Algebra

Ph. D. - Mathematics (TIFR, Mumbai, 2007)

Punyasloke Bhadury

Molecular ecology, climate change, Nano-biology

Ph.D. - Biological Science
(Univ. of Plymouth, UK, 2005)

Ananda Dasgupta

Quantum Phenomena

Ph. D.- Physics (SINP / Jadavpur University, 2001)

Jyotirmayee Dash

Organic Chemistry

Ph. D. - Chemistry (IIT, Kanpur, 2003)

Partha Pratim Datta

Structural & Molecular Biology

Ph.D. - Molecular Biology, (IICB / Jadavpur University, 2002)

Priyadarsi De

Polymer Chemistry

Ph.D. - Chemistry (IISc, Bangalore, 2002)

Pradip Kumar Ghorai

Computer Simulation,
Diffusion in porous solids and liquids, Electron transfer, self-assembly

Ph. D. (IISc, Bangalore, 2005)

Amit Ghosal

Physics

Ph. D.- Physics (TIFR, Mumbai, 2001)

Mahua Ghosh

Structural Biology

Ph. D.- Chemistry (TIFR, Mumbai, 2001)

Nirmalya Ghosh

Optics & Spectroscopy, Biophotonics

Ph. D.- Physics (RRCAT, Indore, 2005)

Debasish Haldar

SupraMolecular Bio Organic Chemistry

Ph. D.- Chemistry (IACS, Kolkata 2005)

Sachindranath Jayaraman

Functional Analysis

Ph.D. - Mathematics (IIT Madras, 2008)

Sumit Khanra Molecular Magnetism, Bioinorganic Organometallic Chemistry Ph. D.- Chemistry (Max-Plank Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Germany, 2005)

Arindam Kundagrami

Physics

Venkataramanan Mahalingam

Luminescent Nanomaterials & Nanocomposites Ph. D.- Chemistry (IIT, Madras 2001)
Prasun K. Mandal

Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Ph. D.- Chemistry (University of Hyderabad, 2006)

Swadhin Mandal

Organometallic Catalytic Transformations, Nanomaterials

Ph. D. - Chemistry (IISc, Bangalore, 2002)

Chiranjib Mitra

Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Magnetism, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Magnetooptics

Ph. D. - Physics (TIFR, Mumbai, 2001)

Partha Mitra Magnetism in mesoscopic systems and spintronics application Ph. D. - Physics (University of Florida, 2006)

Balaram Mukhopadhyay

Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Carbohydrate),
Glyco-nanotechnology

Ph. D. - Biological Chemistry
(Jadavpur University, 2001)

Arindam Mukherjee
Metal complexes, magnetism, DNA cleavage, Anti-cancer agents,
metalloproteins, microcalorimetry

Ph. D. - Chemistry (IISc, Bangalore, 2005)

Goutam Dev Mukherjee

Experimental Condensed
Matter Physics

Ph. D. - Physics
(Hyderabad Central University, 1997)

Dhananjay Nandi

Laser-Electron-Molecule collisions, Photoelectron/Photoion Imaging Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Electron Dynamics

Ph. D. - Physics (TIFR, Mumbai, 2004)

Dibyendu Nandi

Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamics, Sun-Earth-System Science, Space Science

Ph. D. - Physics (IISc, Bangalore, 2003)
Ramanujan Fellow (DST, Govt. of India)

Rajesh Kumble Nayak

General Theory of Relativity,
Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology

Ph. D. Physics (IIA, Bangalore, 2002)

Bipul Pal

Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Nanostructure

Ph. D. Physics (TIFR, Mumbai, 2004)

Mohit Prasad

Biology

Pradipta Purkayastha

Chemistry Ph. D. Chemistry (Jadavpur University, 2002)

Satyabrata Raj

Condensed Matter Physics
(Experimental)

Ph. D.- Physics (IOP / Utkal University, 2001)

C. Malla Reddy

Supramolecular Chemistry, Crystal Engineering

Ph. D.- Chemistry (University of Hyderabad, 2006)

Amlan K. Roy

Theoretical Chemistry

Ph. D.- Chemistry
(Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1998)

Partho Sarothi Ray

Molecular Biology,
Translational Control,
RNA-Protein Interaction

Ph. D.- Biology
(IISc, Bangalore, 2005)

Srimonti Sarkar

Cell Biology

Ph. D.- Biology (Penn State, 2001)

Tapas K. Sengupta

mRNA Stability, Gene Regulation, Bioremediation

Ph. D.- Biology (Calcutta University, 1996)

Raja Shunmugam

Synthetic Macromolecules,
Drug Carriers, Self-assembling
Nanomaterials, Sensors

Ph.D. - Chemistry (IIT Madras, 2003)

Subhasis Sinha

Condensed Matter Physics (Theory)

Ph.D. - Physics (IMSc/Madras University, 2001)

P. A. Sreeram

Quantum Many Body Theory

Ph. D.- Physics (IOP / Utkal University, 2000)

Annagiri Sumana

Behaviour and Ecology,

Ph.D. - Biology (IISc, Bangalore, 2002)

Sanjio S. Zade

Organic Electronics Materials

Ph. D.- Chemistry (IIT, Mumbai, 2004)

I I S E R       F E L L O W S

Anindita Bhadra Animal Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology Ph. D. - Animal Behaviour,
(IISc, Bangalore, 2008)

Parna Gupta Bhattacharayya

Phenomena: Inorganic Chemistry

Ph.D. (Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, 2004)

Mousumi Das

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

PhD. - Chemistry (IISC, Bangalore, 2006)

Tridib Ganguly

Virolgy, Bacteriophage

Ph.D. (Bose Institute, Kolkata, 2007)

Sankar Maiti

Actin Cytoskeleton

Ph.D. (Institute of Microbial Technology, 2003)

Himadri Mukherjee

Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra

Ph.D. (Northeastern Univ., Boston, 2008)




V I S I T I N G     F A C U L T Y

Ranjan Bhattacharya

Ph.D. (SUNY at Stonybrook, 1976)

Amitava Bagchi

Computer Science

Ph. D.- Electrical Engineering (MIT, 1972)

S E N I O R        S C I E N T I F I C        O F F I C E R S
Uday Kumar

Ph.D. (Bombay University)

K. Srikanth

Ph.D. (IIT, Bombay)

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