Materials Science & Engineering

Biography

Dr. Bikramjit Basu is an Associate Professor at Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore since May, 2011. He is also currently Associate Faculty of Bio-Engineering programme at IISc. He is promoted to the position of Full Professor in March, 2011 at IIT Kanpur. Bikramjit obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, both in Metallurgical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur and IISc in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He earned his PhD in Ceramics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in March, 2001. He joined IIT Kanpur in November 2001 as Assistant Professor after post-doctoral research at University of California (UCSB). In India, Dr. Basu has established a vibrant research program on structural ceramics and functional biomaterials, first at IIT Kanpur and then at IISc. He has authored/co-authored more than 175 peer-reviewed research papers with twenty papers in Journal of American Ceramic Society. H-index of his publications is 22 and total citation is 1808 (www.scopus.com). He edited a book on Biomaterials (2008) and authored two textbooks as first author in each case - one on Structural Ceramics (2011) and the other on Tribology (2011), all published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA. He serves on the editorial board of twelve international peer-reviewed journals, including J. Biomedical Materials Research-B and contributes as reviewer of more than 20 SCI journals. He is one of the Editors of the Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies.

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