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Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta, known better as Sushanta Dattagupta, is an Indian condensed matter physicist. He was Director of the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences Kolkata between 1999 and 2005 and then he was appointed Program Co-ordinator by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) for the newly evolving system of
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(IISER). Subsequently, in 2006 he was made the founding director of IISER Kolkata. After serving one full term there the same ministry of HRD made him the Vice-chancellor of
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, which is served between September 2011 and February 2016.


Biography

Sushanta Dattagupta, was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on 19 December 1947 and graduated in Physics (BSc Hons), in 1965, from the
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. His master's degree also came from the same university in 1967. The next year, in 1968, Dr. Dattagupta joined the
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as a lecturer in Physics where he taught for one year. In 1969, Dattagupta went to the US to join the
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and St. John's University where he did his doctoral research to obtain a PhD in Physics, in 1973. He continued in North America for three more years to work as a post-doctoral fellow at the
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, Pittsburgh, USA till 1975, and later, at the
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, Canada for a year. Dattagupta returned to India in 1976 to join the
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,
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, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu where he worked as a scientific officer till 1981. The next assignment was as the Reader at the School of Physics, University of Hyderabad which lasted till 1986. In 1986, Dattagupta was offered a job at the
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where he taught till 1999, first as a Professor and later as the Dean of the School of Physical Sciences. He returned to his native place, Kolkata, in 1999, assuming responsibility as the director of the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences and worked there till 2006. This was followed by the Directorship of the
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(IISER).


Career

When the
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(IISER) was established at Mohanpur, West Bengal, in July 2006, under the aegis of the
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,
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, Dattagupta was its first director. He has published his research findings as several books and published nearly 200 articles. Dattagupta has also attended several national and international seminars to deliver keynote addresses.


Positions

Dattagupta has held many positions, both on academic and organizational levels. He was the Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the
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between 1998 and 2001, Vice President of the
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, Bangalore during 2004-2009 and a council member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad from 2001 to 2014. He was elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy in 1999. He has held the chair of the national committees of the Indian National Science Academy for International Council of Science (ICSU) and
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and was the vice chairman of ''STATPHYS 22'', an International Conference on Statistical Physics held in Bangalore in July 2004. he served as the Convener of the sectional committee on Physical Sciences of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore during 1999-2003. He was also a member of CSIR Emeritus Scientists Committee during 2002-04, research council of the National Physical Laboratory during 2001-06 and the membership committee of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) during 2004-06.


See also

*
Visva-Bharati University Visva-Bharati (IAST: ''Viśva-Bhāratī''), () is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it ''Visva-Bharati'', which ...
* Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research * S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences *
Condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid State of matter, phases, that arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms and elec ...
* Dissipative systems *
Quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry that studies the behavior of photons (individual quanta of light). It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons and their interaction ...


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