Name:

Priya Mahadevan

Present position

Associate Professor,

S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences,
Kolkata - 700 098, INDIA.

B.Sc.

1991, Bangalore University, Bangalore, INDIA.

M.Sc.

1993, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA.

Ph.D.

1998, Indian Insitute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA.

• Post-doctoral fellow, Theory Group, Joint Research Centre for Atom Technology, Tsukuba, Japan (1998-2000).



• Research Associate, Prof. D.D. Sarma’s Group, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (April 2000-Oct 2000).


• Post-doctoral fellow, Solid State Theory Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, USA (Oct 2000-Sept. 2003).


• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India (Sept. 2003-June 2005).


• Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, (Feb. 2006-Apr. 2006).


• Visiting Scientist, KTH Stockholm, Sweden, (June 2007 - July 2007).


• Reader, Department of Material Science, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (July 2005-February 2009).

• Fifth rank in Bachelor of Science, Bangalore University (1991).



• Senior Research Fellow of CSIR, 1995-1998.


• Martin Foster Medal for best PhD in Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2000).


• L.A. Meera prize for best PhD, in Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2000).


• Junior Associate, ICTP Trieste, Italy (2005-2010).


• TWOWS Prize for young woman scientist in Physics/Mathematics in Asia region for 2010.


• NASI-SCOPUS young scientist award in Physics for 2010.


• Executive Board member, MRSI Kolkata chapter.


• Council member, MRSI.


• Editorial board member, Chinese Journal of Physics.

• Indian PI of Indo-EU project on Advanced Theories of TransitionMetal Oxides (ATHENA), (2009-2012).



• Indian PI of Indo-Taiwan project on Advanced Functional Oxides (2009-2012).


• PI of DST project on Charge and orbital ordering(2007-2010).


• Indian PI of Indo-French project on Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors: Bulk and Nano, (2007-2009)


• PI of DAE-BRNS project on Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors, (2005-2008).


• co-PI of Indo-Japan project on Novel magnetic oxide nano-materials investigated by spectroscopy and ab-initio theories (2008-1010).


• co-PI of Advanced Material Research Unit, S.N. Bose centre (2009-2014).