Santanu Chaudhuri

Dr. Santanu Chaudhuri is a researcher and the director of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory.[1]

Dr. Santanu Chaudhuri
Born
Kolkata, India
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipChicago
Alma materSUNY Stony Brook
OccupationResearcher
OrganizationArgonne National Laboratory
Known forResearch on Molecular Dynamics, Condensed Matter Theory, Multiscale Modeling
Home townHowrah, Kolkata

Early life and education

Santanu Chaudhuri was born at Kolkata, India. He attended Santragachi Kedarnath Institution, Howrah and completed B.Sc in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry from Seth Anandram Jaipuria College with Honors in Engineering Chemistry from Calcutta University. He pursued Ph.D in Computational and Materials Chemistry from State University of New York, Stony Brook.[2] As a graduate student, he received a NATO scholarship to work at Oxford University developing simulation methods for ionic conductors, catalysts, and battery materials.[1]

Career

From 2003–2006, Chaudhuri worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Center and researched about the Functional Nanomaterials on theory-guided design of hydrogen storage materials for automobile applications. After that he joined Washington State University and served as a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

In 2014, Chaudhuri moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and subsequently served as the Associate Director of the Applied Research Institute (ARI).He researched on the accelerated Materials, engineering design and simulations.

He works as joint Professor in the Civil and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently director of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory.[1]

Research interests

He has research interests on Multiscale Modeling, Condensed Matter Theory, Molecular Dynamics.[2] Dr. Chaudhuri leads a research team that specializes in the practical and engineering application of high-performance computing in energy, environment and manufacturing. His research is currently funded by DOE, DHS, NSF, AFOSR, ARL, EPRI, DMDII, GE Global Research, Boeing Company, Ford Motors and FMC Technologies.[3]

References
  1. "Santanu Chaudhuri | Argonne National Laboratory". www.anl.gov.
  2. "Chaudhuri, Santanu | Department of Civil and Materials Engineering | University of Illinois at Chicago". cme.uic.edu.
  3. "Dr. Santanu Chaudhuri | Department of Civil and Materials Engineering | University of Illinois at Chicago". cme.uic.edu.
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