13 Facts About Kamanio Chattopadhyay

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is the chair of the Mechanical Sciences Division of IISc and a former chair of the Department of Materials Engineering.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is credited with researches on synthesis and characterization of quasicrystals and nanocomposites and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is credited with wider studies in synthesis of nanocomposites, phase transformations, large superheating phenomenon during melting, dissimilar joining processes, surface modifications and nanostructured magnetic alloys.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay's researches have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 407 and 360 of them respectively.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay holds a number of patents which include those on Solder compositions, Nickel-Aluminium-Zirconium alloys and High Impact Solder Toughness Alloy.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is the co-director of Solar Energy Research Institute for India and United States, an Indo-US joint venture for the development of low cost solar electric technologies, and has conducted a number of seminars and symposia on behalf of the consortium.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is involved in many inter-institutional exchange programs which include the research associations of Indian Institute of Science with Cambridge University and Exeter University.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is the coordinator of the National Microgravity Research Programme, a multidisciplinary research forum of the Indian Space Research Organization for advanced research in Microgravity science.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is a former editor of the Journal of Materials Science of Springer Science+Business Media and is a member of the Board of Trustees of T R Anantharaman Education and Research Foundation, a Hyderabad-based non-profit organization promoting human resource development in engineering sciences.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay received the first major award of his career in 1979 when he was chosen for the Young Scientists Medal by the Indian National Science Academy.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay received the MRSI Medal of the Materials Research Society of India in 1990 and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1995.

Kamanio Chattopadhyay is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Non-Equilibrium Processing and Nanomaterials Laboratory of the Indian Institute of Science felicitated him in 2015, on his retirement from service, with a seminar and the screening of a Metallurgist's Diary, a 20-minute long documentary on the life and work of Kamanio Chattopadhyay made by his students at IISc.