Pratim Kumar Chattaraj

Pratim Kumar Chattaraj obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (India) in 1988 under the supervision of Professor B. M. Deb. Currently he is an Institute Chair Professor in IIT Kharagpur (India). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was a Research Associate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) with Professor Robert G. Parr and also at the FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) with Professor Paul v. R. Schleyer. He...See more

Pratim Kumar Chattaraj obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (India) in 1988 under the supervision of Professor B. M. Deb. Currently he is an Institute Chair Professor in IIT Kharagpur (India). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay. He was a Research Associate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) with Professor Robert G. Parr and also at the FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) with Professor Paul v. R. Schleyer. He has been actively engaged in research in the areas of density functional theory, ab initio calculations, nonlinear dynamics, aromaticity in metal clusters, hydrogen storage, noble gas compounds, machine learning, chemical reactivity and quantum trajectories. He is a coauthor of more than 380 scientific publications. See less