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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

Sankar Adhya

NIH, Bethesda

Pandit Ajoy Chakraborti

Hindusthani Vocal Music
Sankar Chatterjee Geoscience Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, USA, FAAAS, FGSA

Supriyo Datta

Purdue, USA

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore, India

Jainendra K. Jain Physics Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, FAAAS, FAPS

M. Ram Murty

Kingston, Ontario

Kalyan B. Sinha Mathematics Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, India, FNA, FNASc, FASc, FTWAS
Ajay K. Sood Physics Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science , India, FNA, FNASc, FASc, FTWAS

Mriganka Sur

MIT, Boston, USA

P R O F E S S O R S

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

Supriyo Mitra

Earthquake Seismology, Continental Tectonics

Ph.D.-Geophysics (University of Cambridge, 
UK, 2004)

Asok K. Nanda

Reliabillity, Statistics

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

V.  Ravikant

Crustal evolution, Isotope geochemistry and geochronology

Ph.D (NGRI / Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2002)

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)

Tapas K. Sengupta

mRNA Stability, Gene Regulation, Bioremediation

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

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)

Bhavtosh Bansal

Condensed Matter Physics
(Experimental)

Ph. D. (IISc, Bangalore, 2005)

Punyasloke Bhadury

Molecular ecology, climate change, Nano-biology

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

Anuradha Bhat

Sayan Bhattacharyya

Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology

Ph. D. – Chemistry (IIT Kanpur, 2006)

Devapriya Chattopadhyay

Invertebrate Paleontology

Ph.D. - Geological Sciences (University of Michigan, USA, 2009)

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)

Nirmalya Ghosh

Optics & Spectroscopy, Biophotonics

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

Debasish Haldar

SupraMolecular Bio Organic Chemistry

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

Manoj Jaiswal

Geomorphology, Quaternary Geochronology, Palaeoseismics and palaeoclimatic studies

Ph. D.- Geology (PRL/ M.S.University of Baroda, Vadodara,2006)

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

Theoretical Soft Condensed Matter Physics

Ph.D -Physics (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 2003)

Siddhartha Lal

Condensed Matter 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

Cell and Developmental Biology

Ph.D.-Biology  (Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 2005)

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)

Raja Shunmugam

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

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

Kaneenika Sinha

Number Theory, Arithmetic of Modular Forms, Multiple Zeta Values

Ph.D. - Mathematics (Queen’s University. Kingston, Canada, 2006)

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

V. V. Awasthi

Algebraic Topology

Ph.D. - Mathematics (Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, 2008)

Manua Banerjee

Metamorphic Petrology and Structural Geology

Ph.D. - Structural Geology 
(University of Calcutta, 2000)

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)

Aparajita Dasgupta

Pseudo-differential Operator, Harmonic Analysis, PDE

Ph.D. - Mathematics (York University, Toronto, Canada, 2008)

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)

Subrata Shyam Roy

Operator Theory

Ph.D. - Mathematics (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, 2009)

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

Physics

Ph.D. (Bombay University)

K. Srikanth

Chemistry

Ph.D. (IIT, Bombay)

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