Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Bhattacharyya Somnath

Professor

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somnathb[at]iitm[dot]ac[dot]in

  • MPS 104

  • 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-properties of a wide range of 2D MXenes.
  • Among other scientific merits until now Prof. Bhattacharyya has published 48 papers in reputed international journals, completed guidance of three PhD students as sole supervisor and one as co-supervisor, M. Tech thesis of two students and M. Sc thesis of six students, delivered many invited lectures in international as well as national conferences, served as PhD examiner in various Indian and Foreign universities. He was selected for Andalusia Talent Hub fellowship in the year 2015 awarded by the Government of Andalusia, Spain. He has been serving as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports since May 2014 and as External Academic Board member of the Doctoral Program ‘Nanoscopy and Materials Technology’ of University of Cadiz, Spain, since October 2018.

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

  • 2020 - till date
  • 2015 - 2020
  • 2011 - 2015
  • 2009 - 2011
  • 2007 - 2009
  • 2006 - 2009
  • 2006
  • Professor
  • Associate Professor
  • Reader (TIFR, Mumbai)
  • Fellow (E) (TIFR, Mumbai)
  • Research Scientist (Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V, Leipzig, Germany)
  • Post doctoral Researcher (Virginia Tech, VA, USA)
  • Research Scientist (Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany)

  1. 2018-External academic board member, Doctoral program in Nanoscience and Material technologies of the University of Cadiz, Spain.
  2. 2015-Recipient of Andalusia Talent Hub Fellowship (offered by Government of Andalusia, Spain) as an incoming researcher for the year.
  3. 2014-Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports for the quantum physics section 2015.