Amalendu Chandra (born 1963) is an Indian theoretical physical chemist, a professor and the head of the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his microscopic theories and simulations on liquids, interface and clusters. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the

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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2007, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

Biography

Amalendu Chandra, born on 6 October 1963 in the Indian state of

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, graduated in chemistry from the University of Burdwan in 1984 and completed his master's degree from the same university in 1986. His doctoral studies were at the

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and after securing a PhD in 1991, he moved to Canada for his post-doctoral studies at the

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on an Izaac Walton Killam Fellowship. On his return to India in 1993, he joined IIT Kanpur where he serves as a professor of the department of chemistry and also the head of the department. He held two chair professorships during this period viz. Rahul and Namita Gautam Chair Professorship (2008–11) and Sajani Kumar Roy Memorial Chair Professorship (2011). He is also associated with Biman Bagchi and assists the research group headed by the latter in their studies. Chandra's researches are based on the simulations of liquids, interface and clusters and he is known to have contributed to develop microscopic theories and predictions. He has conducted reportedly extensive studies on the equilibrium and dynamical behaviour of complex molecular liquids and bulk ionic solutions as well as on the structure of molecular clusters using theoretical and computational methodologies. He has documented his researches in several peer-reviewed articles;

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, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 118 of them.

Awards and honors

Chandra was selected by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1993 as an associate of the academy with the tenure running from 1994 to 1998. In 1995, the Indian National Science Academy awarded him the Young Scientist Medal and followed it up with the Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award in 1997. He received the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2006; the society would honor him again 2015 with the silver medal. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the

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, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2007. He was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2009 and he became an elected fellow of the

in 2015. He has held several other research fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2002–03) and the Ramanna Fellowship (2006–09 and 2010–13), and J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (2013).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chandra, Amalendu Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science 1963 births Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences 20th-century Indian chemists Living people Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Scientists from West Bengal University of Burdwan alumni Indian Institute of Science alumni University of British Columbia alumni Academic staff of IIT Kanpur Indian theoretical chemists Indian computational chemists

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