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§  Short Synopsis of Ratnamala Chatterjee

 

§  Joined I.I.T Delhi as Asst. Prof. on 8th March 1994                                                            

§  Professor at the same Institute (I.I.T Delhi) since August 2008.

Ratnamala Chatterjee, Professor of Physics Department at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi joined IIT Delhi as an Asst.Professor in 1994. She completed her Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1986 and thereafter joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA as a Post Doctoral Associate in 1987. She was awarded the Science & Technology Agency Award by Japan Research & Development Corporation in the year 1992-93, and worked in their National Research Institute for Metals, Japan, during 1993. She was awarded the Australia International Education Foundation’s (AIEF) Fellowship in 1996 and spent a semester as a Visiting faculty in the Univ. of New South Wales, Australia. In the year 2003 (Sep.2003 – Dec.2003) she was the CNRS Invited Professor at the Laboratoire de Science et Génie des Matériaux et de Métallurgie, at Ecole des Mines, Nancy, France. She has about 120 research publications in reputed International journals. 

Her work has been well cited with total citations 2128, i10 index 53 and h-index of 22 (average citation ~18 and maximum citation for a paper is 181, including 2 citations from Linus Pauling for her work on Quasicrystals) and recognized by the researchers working in these areas.

Her broad research interest area is Novel Magnetic & Functional Materials. She has got several national and international projects and has guided many Ph.D students, in research areas like Magnetoelectric Multiferroic materials, Topological Insulators, Heusler alloys for Shapememory, magnetocloric & Spintronics applications, Shape memory in ceramics, Micowave absorbing materials.

 

§  Awards and Distinctions:  

         i.            Asia-Pacific Association for Materials (APAM) Fellow 2013,

  1. Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) medal 2012,
  2. American Physical Society (APS) Professorship Award 2012,
  3. Honours conferred upon (with a plaque and citation) for contribution in the field of Magnetism by Women Physicist Association, Mother Teresa Women’s University on Science Day 2011,
  4.  CNRS Invited Professor, Ecole des Mines, Nancy, France 2003, 
  5. Australia International Education Foundation(AIEF) Fellow 1997,
  6. Science & Technology Agency (STA) Awardee, Japan R & D Corp. 1993,