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12 Facts About Amalendu Chandra

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Amalendu Chandra was born on 1963 and is an Indian theoretical physical chemist, a professor and the head of the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Amalendu Chandra is known for his microscopic theories and simulations on liquids, interface and clusters.

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Amalendu Chandra is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.

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Amalendu Chandra, born on 6 October 1963 in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated in chemistry from the University of Burdwan in 1984 and completed his master's degree from the same university in 1986.

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Amalendu Chandra held two chair professorships during this period viz.

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Amalendu Chandra is associated with Biman Bagchi and assists the research group headed by the latter in their studies.

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Amalendu Chandra has conducted reportedly extensive studies on the equilibrium and dynamical behaviour of complex molecular liquids and bulk ionic solutions as well as on the structure of molecular clusters using theoretical and computational methodologies.

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Amalendu Chandra has documented his researches in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 118 of them.

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Amalendu Chandra was selected by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1993 as an associate of the academy with the tenure running from 1994 to 1998.

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Amalendu Chandra received the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2006; the society would honor him again 2015 with the silver medal.

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Amalendu Chandra was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2009 and he became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2015.

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Amalendu Chandra has held several other research fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Ramanna Fellowship, and J C Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology.