Dr. Amita (Pathak) Mahanty is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Chemistry at IIT Kharagpur. She is also an adjunction faculty with the
School of Nano Science and Technology at the same Institute. She has
obtained her Integrated M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from IIT
Kharagpur. She carried out her post-doctoral research at the
Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur as a CSIR Research Associate
(Material Science Division). Her professional career in teaching and
research is spread over 17 years. Her s research activities encompass
the areas of Solid State Chemistry, Material Science and Nanoscience,
and has pioneering contribution is in the development of water-based
chemical synthesis methodologies for the preparation of various
functionalized nanostructured materials and their nanocomposites. She
has guided 5 Doctoral and more than 22 dissertations at the Master’s
level.
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