Bio sketch 

At present, Dr. Somnath Bhattacharyya is a Professor (since 20th March 2020) in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Madras. He 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 primary research interest lies in the field of Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy: method development, simulation, and experiment.

Among other scientific merits until now Prof. Bhattacharyya has published 50 papers in reputed international journals, completed guidance of PhD thesis of four 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. Recently he was awarded Otto Moensted Visiting Professorship by Otto Moensted Foundation to work 3 months at DTU Nanolab, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark for the period 2022 - 2024.  

Subhra Kanti De

PhD student

   Swati Jakhmola

PhD student

Himangshu Saikia

PhD student 

Jishu Chandran

PhD  student 

Debasmrita Das

MS student 

   Former MS / PhD students: 

5. Mr. Srijan Mondal, MS defence on 24.09.2024 ar IIT Madras, now PhD scholar at DTU Energy, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark.  

5. Dr. Chiranjit Roy, PhD defense on 21.10.2022 at IIT madras, now postdoc at DTU Energy, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark.  

4. Dr. Pritam Banerjee, PhD defense on 28.07.2021 at IIT madras, now postdoc at DTU Nanolab, DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark.  

3. Dr Md. Mahabul Islam PhD defense on 14.01.2020 at IIT Madras, now Assistant Professor at Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India.

2. Dr Piu Rajak, PhD defense on 26.06.2019 at IIT Madras, now now Assistant Professor at Balurghat College, West Bengal, India.          

1. Dr Tanmay Das, PhD defense on 22.07.2014 at TIFR Mumbai, now Assistant professor, Government General Degree College At Kalna-1, West Bengal