Academic qualifications:

Positions held/ holding:

1. Lecturer in Ceramic Technology (1st August 1996 to 28th July 2005) at GCECT, Kolkata-10;
2. Reader , University of Calcutta , ( 29th July, 2005 ; promoted later to Associate Professor);
3. Professor, University of Calcutta, from 1 st April,2012 till date .
4. Head of the Department (from 6th May, 2019: continuing)

Research interests:

1. Refractory Castables
2. Nanostructured Ceramics
3. Sol-gel Science and Technology
4. Special Glasses

Completed projects:

1. Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured Inorganic Oxide Based Coatings on Graphite for Application in Monolithic Refractory Ceramics
2. Evaluation of refractory performance of castables containing calcium aluminate sol-gel coatings on graphite

Selected Papers:

• Effect of preformed and in situ spinels on microstructures and properties of a low cement refractory castable, Ceramics International,30(3)369-380(2004)
• Easy-to-use mullite and spinel sols as bonding agents in a high alumina based ultra low cement castable, Ceramics International, 28(7)719-729(2002)
• Microstructures of refractory castables prepared with sol gel additives, Ceramics International, 29(6)671-677(2003)
• In situ spinel bonded refractory castable in relation to coprecipitation and sol-gel derived spinel forming agents, Ceramics International,29(8)857-868(2003)
• Sintering and crystallisation behaviour of chemically prepared cordierite for electronic packaging, Ceramics International, 30(6)1067-1070(2004)

Membership of Learned Societies:

1. Life member of the Indian Ceramic Society.
2. Life member of the Materials Research Society of India.
3. Fellow of the Indian Institute of Ceramics.