10 Facts About Aloke Paul

Aloke Paul is an Indian materials scientist and a professor at the Department of Materials Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science.

Aloke Paul did his schooling at B-zone Boys Multipurpose High School and Bidhan Chandra Institution, Durgapur.

Aloke Paul has been serving IISc ever since, becoming an associate professor in 2010 and a full-time professor in 2016 where he heads the Diffusion in Solids Group.

Aloke Paul served Helsinki University of Technology, Finland as a visiting professor in 2008 and University of Munster, Germany in 2012 as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.

Aloke Paul is known to have made notable contribution in the field of solid state diffusion.

Aloke Paul's group is currently working on developing new quantitative models which facilitates the estimation of meaningful composition dependent diffusion coefficients in multicomponent systems by tailoring the experiments to counter the complications of mathematical formalism developed based on formalism proposed by Lars Onsager.

Besides, Aloke Paul has published four books, a two-volume work, Handbook of Solid State Diffusion, Diffusion in Ni and Fe-Aluminides, Thermodynamics, Diffusion and the Kirkendall Effect in Solids.

Aloke Paul is editorial board member of Journal of Electronic Materials, Diffusion Foundations, and Scientific Reports.

Aloke Paul is a member of the international advisory panel of Diffusion in Materials series.

In 2010, Aloke Paul received the Outstanding Young Faculty Award of the Indian chapter of Microsoft Research and four years later, the Ministry of Steel of the Government of India selected him as the Metallurgist of the Year Award in 2014.