Amitabha Ghosh
Mechanical Engineering
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Amitabha Ghosh received his BE (1962) and ME (1964) degrees from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (Calcutta University). Subsequently he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of this college as a Lecturer (1965), continued his doctoral research and obtained his DPhil degree (1969) from Calcutta University. He then joined IIT, Kanpur (1971) as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and became a Professor (1975). He was at the Technical University Aachen with Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship (1977-78). He served IIT, Kharagpur as Director (1997-2002) and subsequently returned to Kanpur where he continued till his retirement (2006).He was a Senior Scientist of INSA from 2007 to 2011. Currently he is a Platinum Jubilee Senior Scientist of the National Academy of Sciences, India since 2012.
Research Interest
Mechanical Engineering
