Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta

Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta, known better as Sushanta Dattagupta, is an Indian condensed matter physicist. He was Director of the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences Kolkata between 1999 and 2005 and then he was appointed Program Co-ordinator by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) for the newly evolving system of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER). Subsequently, in 2006 he was made the founding director of IISER Kolkata. After serving one full term there the same ministry of HRD made him the Vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati, which is served between September 2011 and February 2016.

Biography Sushanta Dattagupta, was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on 19 December 1947 was established at Mohanpur, West Bengal, in July 2006, under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Dattagupta was its first director. and published nearly 200 articles.

Positions Dattagupta has held many positions, both on academic and organizational levels. He was the Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy between 1998 and 2001, Vice President of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore during 2004-2009 and a council member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad from 2001 to 2014. He was elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy in 1999. He has held the chair of the national committees of the Indian National Science Academy for International Council of Science (ICSU) and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and was the vice chairman of STATPHYS 22, an International Conference on Statistical Physics held in Bangalore in July 2004. he served as the Convener of the sectional committee on Physical Sciences of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore during 1999-2003. He was also a member of CSIR Emeritus Scientists Committee during 2002-04, research council of the National Physical Laboratory during 2001-06 and the membership committee of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) during 2004-06.