Sujit Kumar Bandyopadhyay

Biography:

Dr. Sujit Kumar Bandyopadhyay is an Emeritus Fellow who served at the Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2020 and at the Institute of Engineering and Management from 2020 to 2021. He is a former Head of the Material Science Studies Division and served as Scientific Officer (H)+ and Professor at the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He retired on superannuation on 30 September 2015.

Dr. Bandyopadhyay began his career in 1978 as a Scientific Officer in the Chemical Engineering Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and joined the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in 1982 in the same capacity. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1998, with a thesis titled “Charged Particle Irradiation Studies on Copper Oxide Superconductors.” In 2000, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Atomic Institute of Austrian Universities, Vienna, focusing on magnetisation studies of neutron-irradiated high-temperature superconductor single crystals. He has been a Professor at the Homi Bhabha National Institute, a deemed university, since 2009. His achievements include the National Science Talent Search (NSTS) Scholarship and the National Scholarship from the Government of India in 1971, as well as the A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Award for outstanding research.