Professional Background

  • 1995-96-Postdoctotal Fellow, Laboratoire de Physique des Solids, ONERA, Paris.
  • 1996-97-Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart and CNRS, Cergy-Pontoise, France,
  • 1997-99 - Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart
  • 1999 - Research Associate, IISc, Bangalore
  • 2000-2001 - Lecturer, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
  • 2002-2004 - Faculty Fellow, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
  • 2005-2009 - Reader, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
  • 2009 - 2010 - Associate Professor, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
  • 2011 - 2015 - Professor, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
  • July 2015 - Till date - Senior Professor, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta
  • October 2021 - Director, S.N. Bose National Centre, Calcutta

Educational Background

  • Msc, 1990- Physics, Univ. of Calcutta (ranked 1st)
  • Ph.D, 1995- Condensed Matter physics, Univ of Calcutta

Main area of work:

  • Computational Materials Physics, Quantum Materials, Machine learning for materials informatics, Mineral Physics .

Selected Awards & Achievements:

  • Recipient of Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2004-2005)
  • Appointed Head of the Max-Planck-India Partner Group (2005)
  • Recipient of Dr. P. Sheel Memorial Award, National Academy of Sciences, India (2012)
  • Receipient of DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture Award (2015)
  • MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize (2016)
  • Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam HPC Award (2018)
  • J. C. Bose Fellowship (2020)
  • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (Year of Election: 2010)
  • Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (Year of Election: 2010)
  • Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (Year of Election: 2013)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (Year of Election: 2015)
  • Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (Year of Election: 2018)
  • Fellow of Indian National Academy of Sciences (Year of Election: 2022)

Student Supervision:

  • Durga Paudyal (2000 - 2005) presently staff scientist at AMES lab, USA
  • Badiur Rahaman (2003-2009) presently Asst Prof at Alia University, India
  • Soumendu Datta (2005-2010)
  • Hena Das (2006-2011) presently Assoc Prof. at Tokyo Tec., Japan.
  • Soumyajit Sarkar (2007-2013) presently faculty at Brainware Institute, Kolkata.
  • Swastika Chatterjee (2007- 2013) presently Asst. Prof. at IISER Kolkata.
  • Sudipta Kanungo (2009-2014) presently Asst. Prof. at IIT Goa.
  • Santu Baidya (2010-2015) presently Asst Prof at Jaypee University of Information Technology.
  • Swarnakamal Mukherjee (2012-2017) presently Asst Prof. at Central University of Assam.
  • Kartick Samanta (2013-2018) presently PDRA at Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, Lincoln,USA.
  • Dhani Nafday Graphene (2014-2020) presently PDRA at Stockholm.
  • Hrishit Banerjee (2013- 2020) presently Asst Prof at Dundee Univ, Scotland
  • Ransell Disuza (2014-2019) presently PDRA at Finland.
  • Paulomi Chakraborty (2014-2019) Presently PDRA at Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics, Spain
  • Anita Haldar, (2016-2021) Presently Asst Prof at SRM Univ
  • Shreya Das (2016- 2022) presently PDRA at Masaryk University, Czech Rep.
  • Edwine Tendong (2017 - 2023) presently at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences AIMS - Cameroon.
  • Shiladitya Karmakar (2018 - 2024) presently PDRA at Institute of physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Samir Rom Magnetic materials (2019-) thesis submitted
  • Aishwaryo Ghosh (2020-)
  • Manoj Gupta (2020-)
  • Kaushik Pradhan (2020-)
  • Rajdeep Biswas (2021-)
  • Arnab Paul (2022-)

Research Grants:

  • Theoretical Study of Colossal Magneto-Resistive Compounds (Completed in 2005) - DST-NSF - Rs. 4,00,000/-
  • Electronic Structure of Colossal Magnetoresistive Materials (Completed in 2007) - DST - Rs. 14,54,400/-
  • Indo-US project (Completed in 2011) - Indo-US forum - Rs. 50,00,000
  • Unravelling chemical bonding (Completed in 2011) - Max-Planck Society - 1,00,000 Euro
  • Modeling Materials (Completed in 2011) - DST, Swarnajayanti Fellowship - Rs. 60,00,000
  • Advanced Materials Research Unit (Completed in 2012) - DST - Rs. 2,18,63,000
  • Indo-Swedish Project on Metalorganics (Completed in 2013) - Swedish Research Council - SEK 730,000
  • Indo-EU project on Modeling Materials (Completed in 2012) - DST - Rs. 30,00,000
  • Magnetism in quantum spin systems (Completed in 2016) - DST-RFBR - Rs. 10,47,600
  • Spintronics (Completed in 2018) - DST-NWO - Rs. 85,42,000/-
  • Physical properties at extreme conditions (Completed in 2007) - Ministry of Earth Sciences - Rs. 6,00,00,000/-
  • Topology in frustrated magnetic systems (Completed in 2020) - DST-RFBR - Rs. 10,00,000
  • Thematic Unit of Excellence of Computational Materials Science (Completed in 2021) - Nanomission, DST - Rs. 10,98,46,000/-
  • Technical Research Centre (In progress, To be completed in 2026) - DST - Rs. 75,00,00,000/-


Significant recent publications:

A total of more than 300 publications with 148 publications in Physical Review (17 letters and 16 Rapid communications).
  • Santu Baidya, Aabhaas Vineet Mallik, Subhro Bhattacharjee, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta. Interplay of Magnetism and Topological Superconductivity in Bilayer Kagome Metals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026401 (2020).
  • Atanu Paul, Anamitra Mukherjee, Indra Dasgupta, Arun Paramekanti, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta. Hybridization-Switching Induced Mott Transition in ABO3 Perovskites. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016404 (2019).
  • Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay, Priyo Adhikary, Tanmoy Das, Indra Dasgupta, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta. Superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates: Role of f orbitals. Phys. Rev. B 102, 220502(R) (2020).
  • Shreya Das, Dhani Nafday, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, and Arun Paramekanti. NiRh2O4: A spin-orbit entangled diamond-lattice paramagnet. Phys. Rev. B 100, 140408(R) (2019).
  • Anita Halder, Prabuddha Sanyal, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta. Magnetism in cation-disordered 3d-4d/5d double perovskites. Phys. Rev. B 99, 020402(R) (2019).
  • Sayantika Bhowal, Santu Baidya, Indra Dasgupta, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta. Breakdown of J=0 nonmagnetic state in d4 iridate double perovskites: A first-principles study. Phys. Rev. B 92, 121113(R) (2015).
  • S. Sarkar, T. Maitra, Roser Valent'l, and T. Saha-Dasgupta. Proposed Orbital Ordering in MnV2O4 from First-Principles Calculations. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216405 (2009).
  • T. Saha-Dasgupta, Roser Valent?, F. Capraro, and C. Gros. Na2V3O7: A Frustrated Nanotubular System with Spin-1/2 Diamond Ring Geometry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107201 (2005).
  • Hena Das, G. Sangiovanni, A. Valli, K. Held, and T. Saha-Dasgupta. Size Control of Charge-Orbital Order in Half-Doped Manganite La0.5Ca0.5MnO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 197202 (2011).<
  • A. Valli, H. Das, G. Sangiovanni, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and K. Held. Tunable site- and orbital-selective Mott transition and quantum confinement effects in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 nanoclusters. Phys. Rev. B 92, 115143 (2015).