A former student of Ramkrishna Mission (Asansol), Presidency College (Kolkata) and the University of Calcutta,
I received my Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur).
The important mile stones of my academic and professional carrier are mentioned below:
Education
B. Sc. (Honours in Physics) - Presidency college, University of Calcutta (1986)
M. Sc. (Physics) - University of Calcutta (1988)
Ph. D. (Physics) - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1994)
Professional Experience
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (November, 1988 - November, 1993)
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India (December, 1993 - July, 1995)
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (July, 1995 - July, 1997)
Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Madrid, Spain (April, 1999 - March, 2000)
Leibniz Institut fur Festkorper-und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Germany (July, 2003 - February, 2004; May - July, 2006; October-November, 2007)
Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany (September - October, 2009)
Durham University, Durham, UK (March 2010, March 2011)
Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany (September - October, 2012)
Osaka University, Japan (April - July 2013, October-December 2014)
Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany (October - November 2015)
New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE (as Visiting Scientist, September-October 2017)
Johannes–Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, September-October 2018)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, May – June 2022)
Employment
Lecturer (S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India) November 1997 - December 2001
Faculty Fellow (SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India), January 2002 - December 2004 Reader (SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India), January 2005 - April 2008
Associate Professor (SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India), April 2008 - April 2011
Professor (SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India), April 2011 - June 2016
Senior Professor (SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India), July 2016 - Continuing