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| Archana Bhattacharyya | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of Delhi |
| Known for | Ionospheric Physics and Geomagnetism |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Geomagnetism |
Archana Bhattacharyya (born 1948) is an Indian physicist. She specializes in the field of ionospheric physics, geomagnetism, and space weather and is Director of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai.
Education
Bhattacharyya completed B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in physics from the University of Delhi in 1967 and 1969, respectively. She also held a National Science Talent Scholarship (1964–69). She received PhD degree in physics from Northwestern University (1975), working in the area of theoretical condensed matter physics.
Career
Bhattacharyya joined the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Mumbai in 1978. She worked with the group of KC Yeh at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during 1986-87 and during 1998–2000 she was a Senior NRC Resident Research Associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Massachusetts, USA. She was the Director of IIG during 2005–2010. Currently, she is an Emeritus Scientist at IIG.
Awards and honours
- The Professor KR Ramanathan Memorial Lecture and Medal by the Indian Geophysical Union in 2008
- Dr. KS Krishnan Gold Medal by the University of Delhi in 1969
- Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences, India.
Research interests
- Plasma instabilities in the equatorial ionosphere
- Probing the ionosphere with radio waves
- Effects of space weather on the ionosphere
- Spatio-temporal variations of the geomagnetic field
References
- "IAS- Archana Bhattacharyya". Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ "INSA - Archana Bhattacharyya". Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ "Dr A Bhattacharya". iigm.res.in. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- Indian women physicists
- Bengali physicists
- 20th-century Indian physicists
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Delhi University alumni
- Indian women earth scientists
- 20th-century Indian women scientists
- 21st-century Indian women scientists
- 20th-century Indian earth scientists
- Women scientists from Maharashtra
- Indian condensed matter physicists
- 21st-century Indian earth scientists
- 21st-century Indian physicists
- Indian academic administrators
- Women academic administrators
- Indian women academics