Dipankar Das Sarma

Dipankar Das Sarma was born on 15 September 1955 in West Bengal. He did a five-year integrated masters course in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1977 and enrolled for research at the Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bengaluru from where he secured his PhD in 1982 under the tutelage of renowned solid state chemist, C. N. R. Rao. == Work ==

He worked as a research associate at IISc for one year (1982–83), moved to Forschungszentrum Jülich, (Jülich Research Centre) Germany as a guest scientist in 1984 and returned to IISc as a lecturer in 1986. He stayed at IISc where he became the assistant professor in 1989, associate professor in 1993 and a professor in 1999. He remains a professor at Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit at the institution. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo (2001–02) and at the Istituto di Struttura della Materia, CNR at their Rome and Trieste centres in 2002. ==Positions==

. Prof. Sarma holds a number of academic positions in India and abroad. Presently, he is J.N. Tata Chair Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science. Besides heading the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, he served as a guest professor at the Uppsala University, Sweden, and an MLS Chair professor of the Centre for Advanced Materials. Solid State Communication, Indian Journal of Physics, and Surface and Interface Analysis. He has also been associated with Advances in Physical Chemistry, Pramana – Journal of Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, The Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal and Research Letters in Physical Chemistry, as an editorial board member. He is the Series Editor of Advances in Condensed Matter Science, the South Asian regional Editor for J. Experimental Nanoscience and the Associate Editor of Applied Physics. He is a reviewer for many scientific magazines and the American Physical Society selected him as an Outstanding Referee in 2009. ==Legacy==

Dipankar Das Sarma is credited with extensive research on nanomaterials and strongly correlated materials. Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 656 of Sarma's articles and has accorded him an h-index of 43 (since 2015) He holds many patents Sarma is credited with the establishment of the Centre for Advanced Materials, a centre for advanced research on nanomaterials, smart materials, functional polymers, spintronics, strongly correlated electron systems, biomaterials and biology-inspired materials at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. He has attended many national and international seminars and conferences where he has delivered plenary lectures and keynote addresses. He has also mentored many research students for their PhD theses. ==Awards and recognitions==

Sarma received the Sir J. C. Ghosh Medal in 1981 and the Young Scientist Medal from the Indian Institute of Science. from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University in 2015. Sarma, an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, delivered three INSA lectures in 2006, Dr. Jagdish Shankar Memorial Award Lecture, Professor R. P. Mitra Memorial Award Lecture and A. V. Rama Rao Foundation Lecture. Two years later, he delivered the INSA Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture in 2008. Some of the other lectures delivered by Das Sarma are CSIR Foundation Day Lecture, Distinguished Public Lecture, 8th Atma Ram Memorial Lecture and the Joy Kissen Memorial Lecture, CNR Rao Prize Lecture. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Indian Academy of Sciences and holds the fellowship of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). He is also a J. C. Bose National Fellow and Homi Bhabha Fellow. ==See also==