Bikramjit Basu

Bikramjit Basu is currently a Professor at the Materials Research Center with joint appointment at Center for Biosystems Science and Engineering and Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Research at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He is also honorary professor at University of Manchester, UK and Guest professor at Wuhan University of Technology, China. A distinguished alumnus of National Institute of Technology Durgapur (NITD), he obtained his undergraduate from NITD (1995) and postgraduate degree, both in Metallurgical Engineering from IISc (1997). He earned his PhD in Engineering Ceramics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2001). Following post-doctoral stint at University of California, Santa Barbara, he served on faculty of IIT Kanpur during 2001-2011.

Bikramjit received India’s most coveted science and technology award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize (2013). A Chartered Engineer of UK, he is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2017), Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (UK), National Academy of Medical Sciences (2017), Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015), Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (2014) and National Academy of Sciences, India (2013). He served as Editor (2012-2017)/Editor-in-Chief (2017-2019) of the Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies.

An active member of the Engineering ceramics division of ACerS, Bikramjit promoted the society’s GECST program/PCSA activities in IITs/IISc and organized ACerS-endorsed Conclave ‘New Materials for Healthcare’ and ‘ICME Approaches to Innovation in Biomedical Implants’, both at Bangalore in 2018. He is a member of Kingery Award Committee (2018-2021), Publications Committee (2018–2022) and Book Subcommittee (2017-2020). An author of two Wiley-ACerS books on Ceramics and Tribology, he served as Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology (2014-2019). He is recipient of Robert L. Coble award (2008) and Global Ambassador award (2018) from ACerS.

Bikramjit’s research group has pioneered new multifunctional ceramics for applications ranging from human healthcare to hypersonic space vehicles to concentrated solar power. A common thread that runs through these research programs lies in manipulating processing approaches (SPS, 3D printing) and in combining computational analysis with performance qualifying assays, while establishing process-structure-property linkages for a wide spectrum of oxide and non-oxide ceramics. He has been the Principal Investigator of 25 research projects with total funding of 4 million USD worth funding from federal grant agencies, Atomic energy, Defense & Space organisation in India. Currently, he is leading the Translational Center of Excellence on Biomaterials with 15 co-investigators and 30 young researchers in India. He supervised 30 PhD students with some of them currently serving as faculty members at IITs or scientists in National R & D laboratories/corporate sectors. He is also on the board of Directors for AIC-AMTZ Medi Valley incubation council, Visakhapatnam, India. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed research papers with total citation of around 9,000 and H-index of 50.