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Professor Purushottam Chakraborty is a Senior Professor of Physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. His research interests include Ion-Matter Interactions, Ion Beam Analysis, Ion Beam Materials Modifications, Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry, XUV Optics, Nonlinear Optics, Photonics, MBE growth of Low-Dimensional Structures and Nanomaterials, etc.

•	He received his Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in 1984. His Ph.D. work was on ´´Design and fabrication of a RF quadrupole mass spectrometer for ion-surface interaction studies´. •	He joined the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam for postdoctoral research and worked there on ´´layered synthetic microstructures as x-uv optical mirrors´´. The realization of ´´x-uv mirrors for imaging applications´´ was first of its kind in the world and the work got highly acclaimed in the scientific community immediately. The work was done in collaboration with the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, Holland

•	Later, he worked at several places, e.g. Physics Dept., Padova University, Italy; ICTP -Trieste, Italy; Laval University, Quebec - Canada; Friedrich Schiller University, Jena - Germany; University of Pretoria - South Africa; Osaka Electro-Communications University - Japan,, etc.

•	Visited and delivered invited lectures at ─ Imperial College - London, Hiden Analytical Limited (UK) ─ Spring-8, RIKEN, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) ─ University of Cape Town, CSIR, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Sciences, Witwatersrand University (South Africa) ─ Vanderbilt University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of South Carolina, Furman University, Yale University (USA) ─ University of Sydney, University of Western Australia, Newcastle University (Australia) ─ University of Kaiserslautern, DESY - Hamburg, Bielefeld University, Max- Planck Inst fur Plasma Physics-Munich (Germany) ─ ESRF – Grenoble, Riber – Paris (France) ─ University of Pohang, Seoul, South Korea ─ Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China ─  Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

•	Published more than 120 research papers, including book-chapters, monographs, reviews.

•	Edited Journal of Physics:Conferene Series (IOP Publications, UK) and Book ´´Ion Beam Analysis of Surfaces and Interfaces of Condensed Matter Systems´´ (Nova Publishers, New York)

•	Awarded ´´Most Eminent Mass Spectrometrist of India´´and Gold Medal by the Dept of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, ´´Premchand Roychand Scholar´´ of Calcutta University, ´´Mouat Medal´´ of Calcutta University, Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, etc.