S Dattagupta

Biography

Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta completed BSc and MSc degrees in Physics from Calcutta University. Following a one-year stint as lecturer in Physics in Presidency College, Kolkata, he joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory and St. John's University, New York from where he completed his PhD in 1973. He was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1973-1975) and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Alberta (1975-76). On returning to India, Dattagupta was at the Materials Science Laboratory, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam (1976-81); at the School of Physics, University of Hyderabad (1981-86) and then at the newly founded School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1986-99). He was the Director at the SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (1999-2005).

Research Interest

Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter