Archana Bhattacharyya
Department of Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Archana Bhattacharyya earned her BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Physics from the University of Delhi in 1967 and 1969, respectively, holding a National Science Talent Scholarship (1964-69). She received PhD degree in Physics from Northwestern University (1975), working in the area of theoretical condensed matter Physics. She joined the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Bombay in 1978. During 1986-87 she worked with the group of KC Yeh at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and during 1998-2000 she was a Senior NRC Resident Research Associate at the Air Force Resaerch Laboratory in Massachussetts, USA. She was the Director of IIG during 2005-2010. Currently, she is an Emeritus Scientist at IIG.
Research Interest
Ionospheric Physics and Geomagnetism
