Dipankar Das Sarma

Dipankar Das Sarma, popularly known as D.D. Sarma, is an Indian scientist and structural chemist, known for his researches in the fields of Solid State Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, and Nanoscience. He is a former MLS Chair Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Materials and the GAST Professor of Uppsala University, Sweden, A recipient of TWAS Physics Prize and the UNESCO Biennial Javed Husain Prize,

Early life and education

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 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. 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. 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.