Research Area

• Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy: method development, simulation, and experiment
• High-temperature ceramics (MAX phases) and their 2D graphene-like derivatives

Experience

• 2020 - till date

  Professor

• 2015 - 2020

  Associate Professor

• 2011 - 2015

  Reader (TIFR, Mumbai)

• 2009 - 2011

  Fellow (E) (TIFR, Mumbai)

• 2007 - 2009

  Research Scientist (Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V, Leipzig, Germany)

• 2006 - 2009

  Post doctoral Researcher (Virginia Tech, VA, USA)

• 2006

  Research Scientist (Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany)

About

At present, Dr. Somnath Bhattacharyya is a Professor (since 20th March 2020) in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Madras. He has joined IIT Madras on 12th August 2015 as an Associate Professor. Before joining IIT Madras, Prof. Bhattacharyya worked as a Reader at TIFR, Mumbai, from May 2009 to July 2015. He obtained B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur, in July 2000, M.E in Metallurgy in January 2003 from IISc, Bangalore, and Ph.D. (Doktor der Naturwissenschaften) in Materials Science (Faculty Chemistry) in March 2006 from Max Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart and University Stuttgart, Germany. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked at Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany, Virginia Tech, USA, and Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V. (IOM), Leipzig, Germany.

Prof. Bhattacharyya’s research activities cover TEM/ STEM method development, simulation and experiments which is interdisciplinary in nature and it spans over materials science, physics, chemistry and nano science. Currently he and his group members are doing research to establish correlation between synthesis-local atomic and electronic structure-pr...

Selected Journal Publications

• Pritam Banerjee, Chiranjit Roy, Antonio J. Santos, Subhra Kanti De, Francisco M. Morales, Somnath Bhattacharyya, , Unravelling the atomically resolved 3D shape of {111}, {010} and {001} faceted small anatase nanoparticles, Materials Today Nano 17, 100153 (2022).
• Pritam Banerjee, Chiranjit Roy, J.J. Jim anez, F. M. Morales, Somnath Bhattacharyya*,, Atomically resolved 3D structural reconstruction of small Quantum Dots, Nanoscale, 13, 7550 - 7557 (2021).
• Pritam Banerjee, Chiranjit Roy, Subhra Kanti De, Antonio J. Santos, Francisco M. Morales, Somnath Bhattacharyya*,, Atomically resolved tomographic reconstruction of nanoparticles from single projection: influence of amorphous carbon support, Ultramicroscopy, 221, 113117 (2021).

Recognitions

• 2018

  External academic board member, Doctoral program in Nanoscience and Material technologies of the University of Cadiz, Spain.

• 2015

  Recipient of Andalusia Talent Hub Fellowship (offered by Government of Andalusia, Spain) as an incoming researcher for the year.

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