Kasturi Lal Chopra

Biography

Kasturi Lal Chopra earned his BSc (Hons) and MSc in Physics from Delhi University and PhD in Low Temperature Physics from the University of British Columbia in 1957. He was Defence Research Fellow at Royal Military College, Canada, Max Planck Fellow at Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Staff Scientist at Philco-Ford Scientific Laboratory and Ledgemont Laboratory of Kennecott Copper Corp in USA, Adjunct Professor at Northeastern and Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and a consultant to R&D groups at IBM, Westinghouse, ARCO, etc. He joined IIT Delhi in 1970 as Senior Professor of Solid State Physics and served as Head of Physics Department, Head, Energy Centre, Dean of Post Graduate Studies and Dean, Industrial R&D. He was invited to the post of Director, IIT Kharagpur, which he served for a period of 10 years. After retirement, he was Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Chair Professor at IIT, Delhi and presently continues to mentor several academic and R&D institutionsasChairman , BoG of BBIT,Kolkata and HDF-SoM, Bhubneshwar, and Honorary Prof of IITD,IITBB, BESU,ITMand KFUPM of Saudi Arabia

Research Interest

Solid State Physics, Nanoscience and Technology of Thin Films