Rate My Professor Amit Chakraborty

Professor Amit Chakraborty is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, having joined the institute as Associate Professor in August 2010 and promoted to full Professor in October 2018. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics from the University of North Bengal in 1997 and an M.Sc. in Physics from the same university in 1999. Chakraborty earned his Ph.D. in carbon nanomaterials in 2005 from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, with a thesis entitled "Synthesis, characterization and modification of carbon nanotube and related carbon nanostructures." Prior to his appointment at NIT Durgapur, he served as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University, UK, from May 2005 to January 2008, and as a Post-Doctoral Scientist at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Duebendorf, Switzerland, from March 2008 to July 2010.

His research focuses on nanomaterials and nanocomposites comprising metal oxides, sulfides, and carbon materials for applications in solar photovoltaics such as dye-sensitized solar cells, supercapacitors, batteries, photoelectrochemical water splitting, and sensors. Chakraborty has published 60 research articles and led or co-led 10 sponsored projects, including the SERB-DST funded "Sustainable Technology for smart off-Grid Renewable Energy Transformation and Electrochemical Storage Management" (2022-2027, Rs. 140 lakhs) as Principal Investigator, the MHRD TEQIP-III Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials (Energy) (2018-2021, Rs. 400 lakhs), and international collaborations such as the EPSRC-GCRF project on earth-abundant nanomaterials for photocatalytic water splitting with the University of Liverpool (2016-2017). He has received prestigious awards including Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, UK, 2021), the INDIA-UK Excellence Award for Collaboration in Higher Education (British Council, 2016), India Fellowship Award (University of Liverpool, 2014), International Travel Award (DST, India, 2012), and Ph.D. Scholarship (EPSRC, UK, 2002-2005). Additionally, he serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Materials and Frontiers in Energy, and has supervised 14 postdoctoral researchers.