Joysurya Basu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. Prior to this appointment he served as a Scientist at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, and Assistant Professor at the Homi Bhaba National Institute. Dr. Basu graduated with Ph. D. in Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Subsequent to his Ph.D. he moved to USA and joined Barry Carter’s research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. He also worked as a staff scientist in the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, National Science Foundation, USA. He joined Department of Chemical, Materials and Bio-molecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA as University Fellow in 2007. He also worked as a Guest Scientist in the Thin Film and Nanostructure Procession Group in National Institute of Standard and Technologies, Gaithersberg, Maryland, USA.

His research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms of materials phenomena through the application of advanced microscopy techniques. Advanced materials, thin films and nanostructures for alternative energy applications are the focus materials for current and future research. His Doctoral dissertation mainly involves thermodynamics, microstructural characterization and structure-property correlation of partially crystallized bulk metallic glasses. Since after Ph. D., he has been involved in electron microscopy of interfaces and defects, aberration-corrected electron microscopy for direct structural imaging and determination of single atom chemistry, application of in-situ electron microscopy techniques for understanding the site-specific growth of nanostructures, dewetting of thin films, characterization of fuel cell, battery electrodes and functional oxides and quantitative electron microscopy for characterizing light atoms and defects.

He is a Life Member of the Electron Microscopy Society of India, the Materials Research Society of India, and The Indian Institute of Metals. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, delivered over 25 invited lectures and more than 100 conference presentations all over the world.