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Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta, known better as Sushanta Dattagupta, is an Indian
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. 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 Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (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 Visva-Bharati, 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
University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public collegiate state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best state research university all over India every year, C ...
. His master's degree also came from the same university in 1967. The next year, in 1968, Dr. Dattagupta joined the
Presidency College, Kolkata Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affilia ...
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
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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
Carnegie-Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technol ...
, Pittsburgh, USA till 1975, and later, at the
University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Ruth ...
, Canada for a year. Dattagupta returned to India in 1976 to join the Materials Science Laboratory,
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is one of India's premier nuclear research centres. It is the second largest establishment of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), next to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), located at Kal ...
, 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 The University of Hyderabad ( IAST: ''Hydarāvād visvavidyālayamu'') is a top ranking public central research university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Founded in 1974, this mostly residential campus has more than 5,000 students ...
which lasted till 1986. In 1986, Dattagupta was offered a job at the
Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...
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 S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) is an autonomous research institute dedicated to basic research in mathematics sciences under the Department of Science and Technology of Government of India. It is located in West Benga ...
and worked there till 2006. This was followed by the Directorship of the
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K or IISER Kolkata) is an autonomous institute in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India. It was established by ...
(IISER).


Career

When the
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K or IISER Kolkata) is an autonomous institute in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India. It was established by ...
(IISER) was established at Mohanpur, West Bengal, in July 2006, under the aegis of the
Ministry of Human Resource Development The Ministry of Education ( MoE; formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development from 1985 to 2020) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education. The Ministry is further ...
,
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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
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, 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

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Visva-Bharati University Visva-Bharati () is a public central university and an Institution of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it ''Visva-Bharati'', which means the communion of the ...
* Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research *
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) is an autonomous research institute dedicated to basic research in mathematics sciences under the Department of Science and Technology of Government of India. It is located in West Benga ...
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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 phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the s ...
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Dissipative systems A dissipative system is a thermodynamically open system which is operating out of, and often far from, thermodynamic equilibrium in an environment with which it exchanges energy and matter. A tornado may be thought of as a dissipative system. Dis ...
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Quantum optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules. It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons. Photons have ...


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