Professor and Ex-HOD
Department of Physics, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
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Academic Positions in BITS Pilani
December 2000 to January 2005: Lecturer
February 2005 to July 2010: Assistant Professor
August 2010 to January 2013: Associate Professor
From February 2013 till now: Professor
Administrative Positions in BITS Pilani
September 2014 to till now: DLSC Chair person, Department of Physics, BITS Pilai
September 2012 to August 2014: Head of the Department, Physics
December 2004 to September 2014: Nucleus Member, Admission Division in BITS Pilani
Advisory Board Member
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, IOP Science, UK
Academics
Ph. D. (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
Master of Science (Specialization with Electronics): Jadavpur University
Bachelor of Science (with honors in Physics): University of Calcutta
Schooling: Barasat Mahatma Gandhi Memorial High School and Barasat Govt. High School, West Bengal
Qualified: CSIR/UGC NET (1990) and GATE (1990)
Post Doctoral Experiences
From 1997 April to 1998 March: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
From 1999 April to November 2000: Emory University, Department of Physics, US
Research background: After my M.Sc., I joined VECC-Calcutta as a research assistant in the Helium recovery division for one year. In 1991, I joined IIT-Kanpur as a research scholar in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, under Professor R.M. Singru in experimental condensed matter physics using the room and low-temperature Mossbauer spectroscopy. I studied several industrial materials, ores, metallic glasses, etc. The title of the Ph.D. thesis is "Mossbauer Spectroscopic Study of Some Iron-Based Alloys, Metallic Glasses, and Minerals." My first theoretical postdoctoral work from "The materials and Metallurgical Engineering Department" was at IIT-Kanpur under Professor Nirupam Chakraborti on "Calculation of Ternary Alloys Phase Diagram" under " Calculation of Ternary All, a DRDO project. Before joining BITS-Pilani in December 2000, I was in the Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, as a postdoctoral fellow for a couple of years.
Residence: 226 Dakshin Marg,
Vidya Bihar, BITS-Pilani,
Pilani-333031
Phone : +91 01596515729 (O), 01596515237 (O)
e-mail: bandy@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in