Milan Kumar Sanyal
Physics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Milan K Sanyal completed BSc (Physics Hons) from University of Kalyani and then joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) as Scientific Officer through its Training School in 1976. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from University of Bombay during his stay in BARC. He did his postdoctoral research in Physics Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) as a Professor in 1995 where he is now working as Head, Surface Physics Division. He has built up a front-line laboratory and a research group in SINP that has contributed significantly to the development of scattering theory and experimental techniques for studying structure and correlations in various surfaces/interfaces and for investigating confinement induced low-dimensional physical properties of nanomaterials.
Research Interest
Condensed Matter Physics, Surface Physics, Synchrotron X-ray Scattering
