Srikumar Banerjee
Materials Science
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Srikumar Banerjee obtained the BTech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur (1967), the same year that he joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai as a Scientific Officer in the Metallurgy Division. Subsequently, he obtained his PhD also from the IIT, Kharagpur, and became Head, Metallurgy Division, and the Associate Director, Materials Group. Since 2004, he has been the Director, BARC. He has held visiting positions at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (1978-79), Max-Planck Institut for Metallforschung-Institute fur Physik, Stuttgart, Germany (1979-80), and University of Cincinnati, USA (1992), The Ohio State University, and Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany.
Research Interest
Materials Science, Nuclear Engineering