Aditya Bandopadhyay received his B.Tech and M.Tech (Institute Silver Medal) from IIT Kharagpur from where he also did his Ph.D. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Geosciences Rennes, France and as a Humboldt fellow in TU Darmstadt, Germany. He is presently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.