page_title: Amalendu Chandra
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Amalendu Chandra / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Burdwan University administrative complex gate, Rajbati
context_page_description: Amalendu Chandra is an Indian theoretical physical chemist, a professor and the head of the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his microscopic theories and simulations on liquids, interface and clusters. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2007, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
context_section_description: Amalendu Chandra, Born on 6 October 1963 in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated in chemistry from the University of Burdwan in 1984 and completed his master's degree from the same university in 1986. His doctoral studies were at the Indian Institute of Science and after securing a PhD in 1991, he moved to Canada for his post-doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia on an Izaac Walton Killam Fellowship. On his return to India in 1993, he joined IIT Kanpur where he serves as a professor of the department of chemistry and also the Head of the Department. He held two chair professorships during this period viz. Rahul and Namita Gautam Chair Professorship (2008–11) and Sajani Kumar Roy Memorial Chair Professorship (2011). He is also associated with Biman Bagchi and assists the research group headed by the latter in their studies.
  Chandra's researches are based on the simulations of liquids, interface and clusters and he is known to have contributed to develop microscopic theories and predictions. He has conducted reportedly extensive studies on the equilibrium and dynamical behaviour of complex molecular liquids and bulk ionic solutions as well as on the structure of molecular clusters using theoretical and computational methodologies. He has documented his researches in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 118 of them.
caption: Burdwan University
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