Dr. Amrita Bhattacharya
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Metallurgical Engg.
and Materials Science,
IIT Bombay, 400076, India
RESUME
Education
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MSc. in Physics from University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India.
Sep' 2004 - Sep' 2006
Specialization: Electronics
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Ph.D in Physics from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
Nov' 2007 - Dec' 2012
Advisor: Prof. G. P. Das
Work
experience
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Max Planck Post-doctoral fellow at Theory Dept., Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.
Jan' 2013 - Apr' 2016
Advisor: Prof. Matthias Scheffler
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DST Inspire Faculty at Advance materials and devices division, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
May' 2016 - Nov'2017
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Assistant professor in the Dept. of Metallurgical Engg. and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Dec' 2017 - May' 2021
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Associate Professor in the Dept. of Metallurgical Engg. and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
May'2021- present
Awards
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Young Faculty Research Award, IIT Bombay 2021.
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Member, National Academy of Science India, since 2020.
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Early career research award, 2019-2022.
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Max-planck postdoctoral fellowship, 2013-2016.
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DST Inspire faculty award, 2015.
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Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Travel grant, 2016.
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Young Scientist award, Materials Research Society India, 2012.
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Kawazoe best poster award, ACCMS-TM2DS, Bangalore, India, 2012.
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DST travel grant, 2011.
Expertise
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Method: Density Functional Theory and beyond.
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Electronic Structure Code: FHI-aims, VASP, CASTEP.
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Post Processing Code: Phonopy, Phono3py, BoltzTrap, shengBTE
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Excited State Electronic Structure Calculations: Renormalized Second order Perturbation Theory, GW.
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Dynamics: ab initio Molecular Dynamics
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Programming Language: Python, Matlab, Shell etc.
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Plotting: Xmgrace, Gnuplot, matplotlib, seaborn
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Modeling and visualization: VESTA, JMOL, Materials Studio, Xcrysden
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Machine Learning: Scikit learn