BITS Pilani Dubai campus gets a new director

Before being appointed Dean of Faculty Affairs in 2018, Professor Banerjee worked for the institute for five years as the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in 2013, overseeing all faculty affairs at all BITS Pilani locations.

Professor Banerjee began his career at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus in 2004. (Photo credit: BITS Pilani)

BITS Pilani has appointed Prof Souri Banerjee as the new director for their Dubai campus. He assumed this role last month and will be serving as the director for the next five years. He took over from Prof Srinivasan Madapusi who has served as director of Dubai campus since July 2021.

Professor Banerjee began his career at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus in 2004. In 2008, he became the founding Department Head of Physics at the Hyderabad campus. Before being appointed Dean of Faculty Affairs in 2018, he worked for the institute for five years as the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in 2013, overseeing all faculty affairs at all BITS Pilani locations.

He has served in several postdoctoral positions at the University of Electro-Communications and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Electro-Communications. He also served as a Research Scientist at the Central Research Laboratory, HITACHI, Tokyo.

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V Ramgopal Rao, Vice Chancellor for BITS Pilani, said, “We are pleased to have Prof Souri Banerjee on board and wish him all success in his new assignment. I am confident that his leadership and expertise will be instrumental in further enhancing our academic programs and research initiatives.

Professor Souri Banerjee obtained his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata in 1997. After completing his PhD, he held a small stint at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and was also awarded the prestigious JSPS Foreign Research Fellow two times (2012 & 2018) in recognition of his contributions to device physics.

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