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Bio - Data of Prof. SURJIT MUKHERJEE

Name : PROF. SURJIT K. MUKHERJEE

Designation : PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS (The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)

Specialization : Experimental Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Data

Education Qualification : M.Sc. (B.H.U.); Ph.D. (B.H.U.); I.C.D.L (South Africa)

Personnel Details:

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  Gender : Male
  
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  Date of Birth : 21^st November, 1959
  
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  Nationality : Indian
  
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  Languages known : English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati
  
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  Father’s Name : Late Mr. K.L. Mukherjee
  
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  Mother’s Name : Late Mrs. Geeta Mukherjee
  
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  Marital Status : Married
  
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  Spouse’s Name : Mrs. Chandana Mukherjee (M.Sc.)
  
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  Children : Siddhant (Son); Shashwat (Son)
  

Official Address : Physics Department, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara-390 002, Gujarat. India
Correspondence Address : A-1/102, Anand Vihar Flats, Near Kailashdham Society, New Sama Road, Vadodara-390 008. Gujarat. India
Contact Nos. : Phone : [phone] (O); 0265-2971399 (R)

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 Educational QUALIFICATIONS:

Degree awarded	Institution / Board	Year	Major Subject (s)	Division & Aggregate (%)
Higher Secondary	Central Board, New Delhi	1977	Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Hindi	First (64.4%)
Pre-Engineering	Guru Nanak Dev. University, Amritsar	1978	Physics, Chemistry, Maths, English, Hindi	First (62%)
Graduation	Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar	1980	Physics, Maths, English	First (75%)
M. Sc.	Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi	1982	Physics	First (66.6%)
Ph. D.	Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi	1989	Physics	Thesis Examined by Prof. Peter Hodgson, Oxford University
I.C.D.L.	iThemba LABS, South Africa	2002	Computer Basics	Certificate

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  EMPLOYMENT: (In Chronological Order)
  

Position held	Nature of job	University/Institution	Duration
Professor	Teaching & Research	The M. S. University of Baroda	Since Nov. 2009 (7 Years)
Associate Professor	Teaching & Research	The M. S. University of Baroda	Nov. 2003 to Nov. 2009 (6 Years)
Senior Lecturer, Lecturer	Teaching & Research	Vikram University, Ujjain	Oct. 1990 to Nov. 2003 (13 Years)
Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow	Research, Training and Teaching	iThemba LABS, South Africa	July 2001 to April 2003 (2 Years)
Project Scientist	Research & Development	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	Oct. 1989 to Oct. 1990 (~1 Year)

Total Teaching Experience (UG+PG+M.Phil) – 26 Years

Total Research Experience (including tenure of Ph.D.) – 32 Years
 Number of Research PUBLICATIONS: (Total 173)

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  Journals (Published) : 94
  
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  Conferences (International) : 20
  
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  Conferences (National) : 59
  

Citations – 624 h Index – 14 i10 Index – 21
 Research Interest:

I am engaged in both theoretical and experimental investigations of various aspects of nuclear reactions.

 Experimental Investigations with several radioactive ions / loosely bound ions / strongly bound ions were carried out to study the role of different target projectile systems in the mechanism of nuclear reactions, such as fission/fusion dynamics. This has application in the development of AHWR and ADS System. This work is done in collaboration with several national and international institutes.

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  Theoretical Model development and calculations of the nuclear reactions and its dynamics using various nuclear potentials and associated parameters. This work is done in collaboration with Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  
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  National Collaboration :
  

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  Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi
  
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  Nuclear Physics Division, BARC, Mumbai
  
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  Reactor Physics and Design Division, BARC, Mumbai
  
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  APSARA Reactor Facilities, BARC, Mumbai
  
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  Radiochemistry Division, BARC, Mumbai
  
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  Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
  
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  Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata
  
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  UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata Centre, Kolkata
  

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  International Collaboration :
  

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  Institute de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
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  Institutte de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  
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  iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa
  
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  Joint Institut of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow, Russia.
  
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  Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
  

 TEACHING INTEREST:

Since last 26 years, I have been engaged in the teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as the M.Phil. Ph.D. students.

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  I have supervised 9 students to obtain their Ph.D. degrees in the field of Nuclear reactions and Spectroscopy in experiment and theory. 4 more students are working under my supervision for their Ph. D degrees in Fusion-fission reactions, elastic and transfer reactions, nuclear structure using the facilities of BARC Reactors, Indian National Gamma Arrays, Pelletron facilities at New Delhi and Mumbai.
  
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  I have also supervised several graduate and undergraduate students at iThemba LABS, South Africa for their dissertations leading to their degree by research.
  
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  Postgraduate Teaching: Experimental and Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Statistical Mechanics
  
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  Undergraduate Teaching: Modern Physics, Heat & Thermodynamics, Acoustics, Optics, Fundamentals of Bio-Medical Physics (Theory and Experiment) to the Medical Students.
  

 Awards/Fellowships Received from various Research Centers:

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  CAS-PIFI Visiting Professor Programme – Visiting Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, China for Collaborative Research using Radio Active Ion Beam Facility from December 2015 to May 2016.
  
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  UNESCO – Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) Senior Associateship (for 3 years) from June 2008 -  To visit twice for three months, Centre for Brazilian Physics, Brazil.
  
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  UNESCO – Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) Senior Associateship (for 3 years) from June 2010 -  To visit twice for three months, Institute of Modern Physics, China Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
  
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  Young Scientist Fellowship under the Training Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh – State Council of Science & Technology, Bhopal, India in 1991.
  
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  S.E.R.C. Visiting Fellowships Award by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India in 1995.
  
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  INSA Visiting Fellowship Awarded by the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India in 1997.
  

 Nominations / Appointments :

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  Member-Accelerator User’s Committee (AUC), Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
  
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  Nominee – Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, as an Expert Member in the Selection Committees.
  
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  Examiner – Post-graduate classes at Physics Department, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
  
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  Examiner - Biotechnology programme, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi, continuously for three years.
  
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  Examiner - Vikram University, Ujjain, Every Year.
  

 University Administrative / Academic WORK:

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  Assistant Registrar (Part Time) - Vikram University, Ujjain.
  
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  Senior Press Supervisor (Confidential) – The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, since last 10 years (In charge of all examination related work of the university).
  
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  Member, Board of Studies in Physics – The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
  
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  Member, Board of Faculty of Science – The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
  
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  Chairman and Examiner - Various Examination Committees.
  
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  Ph.D. / M. Phil Thesis Examiner –Aligarh Muslim University, Mumbai University, Karnataka University, Vikram University, Ujjain.
  
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  Senior Centre Supervisor, BCA Programme – Science Faculty, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
  
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  Liaison Officer - Appointed by VC, MSU to accompany chief guests for university convocation function.
  

 Membership of the Professional Societies :

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  Life Member of the Indian Physical Society, Kolkata.
  
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  Life Member of Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists, BARC Mumbai.
  
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  Life member, Indian Physics Association, Mumbai.
  
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  Life member, Indian Nuclear Society, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai (LM-9463).
  
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  Member, South African Institute of Physics, South Africa.
  

 Research Projects Completed / Ongoing:

Sr. No.	Title of the Project	Funding Agency	Duration	Budget (Rs.)
1	Study of the isomeric cross section and level density distribution Principal Investigation	M.P. Council of Science & Technology, Bhopal, India	1995 to 1998	54,000/- Completed
2	Study of complete and incomplete fusion by measurement of recoil range distribution and charged particle emission. Principal Investigator	University Grants Commission, New Delhi (NSC Project)	1995 to 1998	1,50,000/- Completed
3	Study of incomplete fusion reactions with heavy ions. Principal Investigator	Department of Atomic Energy-BRNS, Mumbai	1992 to 2002	20,00,000/- Completed
4	Measurement of linear momentum transfer in the complete and incomplete fusion process Principal Investigator	UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata Centre	2005 to 2007	5,00,000/- Completed
5	Mass asymmetry and alpha cluster effects in reactions with weakly bound nuclei Principal Investigator	University Grants Commission, New Delhi (IUAC Project)	2007 to 2010	3,57,000/- Completed
6	Studies for 14 MeV and fast neutron induced fission/reaction for AHWR and ADS application. Co-Investigator & Subject Expert	Department of Atomic Energy-BRNS, Mumbai	2008 to 2010	9,17,900/- Ongoing
7	The effect of break-up/transfer of weakly bound and stable neutron rich projectile in the fusion-fission and scattering mechanisms Principal Investigator	Department of Atomic Energy-BRNS, Mumbai	2009 to 2011	18,46,150/- Ongoing
8	Nuclear structure effects on breakup and multi-nucleon transfer reactions Principal Investigator	UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata Centre	2010 to 2013	7,48,000/- Ongoing
9	Effect of Neutron pair correlation in the quasi elastic scattering and threshold anomaly Principal Investigator	IUAC-New Delhi	2014-2017	7,23,000/- Ongoing
10	Study of neutron induced reaction cross section up to 18 MeV for advanced reactor design Principal Investigator	Department of Atomic Energy-BRNS, Mumbai	2016-2019	16,17,400/- Ongoing

 Students Awarded/Working for their Ph.D. DEGREE:

S.No.	Name of Student	Title of the Thesis	Date of Award
01.	B. Bindu Kumar	Study of Light and Heavy Ion Induced Nuclear Reactions by excitation functions and Recoil Range Distribution Measurements.	Awarded 1999
02.	Anil K. Sharma	Study of Complete and Incomplete Fusion Reactions	Awarded 2001
03.	K. Surendra Babu	Investigation on the Mechanism of Incomplete Fusion in Heavy Ion Reactions.	Awarded 2005
04.	G. Kiran Kumar	Study of Multi-Nucleon Transfer Residues by Heavy Ion Reactions.	Awarded 2009
05.	S. Appanababu	Mass Asymmetry and Alpha Cluster Effects in Reactions with Weakly Bound Nuclei	Awarded 2011
06.	Rakesh Kumar	Nuclear Structure Investigation using Particle-Gamma Coincidence Technique.	Awarded 2011
07.	Paresh Prajapati	Studies for 14 MeV and Fast Neutron induced Fission/Reaction for AHWR and ADS Application.	Awarded 2012
08.	Nikit Deshmukh	Study of Elastic Scattering Break-up/Transfer and Reaction Cross Section with heavy Ions.	Awarded 2012
09.	Dipika B. Patel	The effect of break-up/transfer of weakly bound and stable neutron rich projectile in the fusion-fission and scattering mechanisms	Awarded 2015
10.	Shradha Dubey	Nuclear structure effects on breakup and multi-nucleon transfer reactions	Started September, 2014
11.	Rajnikant Makwana	Study of thorium fuel cycle for DT-Fusion neutrons	Started May, 2014
12.	Vibha Vansola	Study of neutron induced reaction cross sections up to 18 MeV for advanced reactor design	Started October, 2014
13.	Jaimin Acharya	Investigation of a few mechanisms in the reactions induced by heavy ions.	Started December 2014
14.	Rakesh Chauhan	Study of neutron induced reactions for nuclear model analysis.	Started August 2016
15.	Siddhart Parsharai	Study of neutron and light charged particle reactions	November 2016

 Students Awarded M. Phil. DEGREE:

S.No.	Name of Student	Title of the Thesis	Date of Award
01.	Ms. Swati Dubey	Study Excitation Function of (, xn) reactions on Niobium.	1992
02.	Mahendra Khurana	Pre-equilibrium Neutron Emission in the Alpha Particle induced Reactions in Indium.	1993
03.	Vijay Bhatt	Study of Isotopic Effects in the Alpha induced Reactions in Nicket.	1993
04.	Ajay Hinge	Study of Monitor Reaction Cross Sections on Aluminium.	1995

 Organization of Workshops :

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  Organized a TEN DAY National Workshop on Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes as Local Workshop Coordinator, from February 1, 1999 to February 10, 1999 in the School of Studies in Physics, Vikram University, Ujjain.
  
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  Organized a ONE DAY ‘Acquaintance Programme for the Nuclear Science Centre Facilities” as Local Convener, August 28, 2000, in the School of Studies in Physics, Vikram University, Ujjain.
  
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  Nineteenth National Symposium on Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors and Their Applications (SSNTD-17) as Secretary from 17 - 19, October, 2011 in the Physics Department, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.
  
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  National Workshop on Surrogate Reactions and its Applications (SURROGATE – 2013) as Local Convener from January 24 – 25, 2013 in the Physics Department, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.
  
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  Indo – Czech Cooperation Workshop on Monte Carlo Simulation as Secretary from December 1 – 6, 2014 in the Physics Department, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.
  

 Invited Talks Delivered at various Institutions :

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   “Effects of Nuclear Radiations on Environment and Mankind” for the Faculty Members from various Colleges and Universities attending the Refresher Course at the School of Studies in Zoology, Vikram University, Ujjain (1999).
   
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   “Heavy ion induced Nuclear Reactions : An Overview” for the participants attending the Symposium on Nuclear Chemistry and Radioisotopes organized by Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists, BARC Mumbai at University of Pune, Pune (2001).
   
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   “Complete and Incomplete Fusion with Heavy Ions” for the students and faculty members from various institutes and universities attending the “Millennium School of Physics” Organized by University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa at Kruger National Park, South Africa (2002).
   
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   “Measurement of Linear Momentum Transfer in the Complete and Incomplete Fusion Process’ for the participants on ONE DAY Acquaintance Programme, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (2006).
   
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   “Heavy Ion Reaction Mechanism” for the participants attending the South African Institute of Physics Conference organized by SAIP, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa (2006).
   
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   “Recoil Shadow Anisotropy Method for nanosecond Isomers” for the participants attending the Workshop on LINAC Facilities organized by Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi (2006).
   
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   “Incomplete Fusion Process in Heavy Ion Reactions” at Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Moscow (2006).
   
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   “Some Aspects of Complete and Incomplete Fusion in Heavy Reactions” for the participants attending the Nuclear Physics Symposium, organized by BRNS-DAE at the M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.
   
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   “Fusion-Fission Reactions with Weakly Bound Projectiles : Surrogate Reaction Approach”, for the participants attending the Nuclear Physics Workshop, organized by Brazilian Nuclear Physics Society, Brazil (2008).
   
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    “Break-up threshold anomaly with weakly bound projectiles”, for the Physics group at the Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, P.R. China (2011).
    
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    “The break-up threshold anomaly and fusion with weakly bound projectiles from recent elastic scattering measurements around the Coulomb barrier” or the Physics group at the China Institute of Atomic Energy, P.R. China (2011).
    
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    “Systematic results of fusion, total reaction cross sections and breakup threshold anomaly with weakly bound nuclei at near barrier energies”, for the participants attending the Nuclear Physics Symposium, organized by BRNS-DAE at the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (2011).
    
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    “Recent study of heavy ions with weakly bound nuclei”, for the Physics Group of Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P.R. China (2016).
    
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    “Heavy ion fusion, breakup and quasi-elastic reactions” for the participants attending the Nuclear Physics Symposium, organized by BRNS-DAE at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (2016)
    

 Academic Visits to Foreign Countries :

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  iThemba LABS (Formerly National Accelerator Centre, Cape Town South Africa) as Physicist (Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow) from 1^st June 2001 to 30^th April, 2003 (2 Years).
  

Purpose of Visit: Advanced Research in Nuclear Reactions & Spectroscopy in Association with the Physics Group at iThemba LABS. To teach and train Graduate and Post-Graduate students from the under privileged Sections of Society.

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  Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano, Sezione di Milano, Italy as visiting fellow from 16^th October to 24^th October, 2002.
  

Purpose of Visit: Theoretical model calculations and discussions in connection with the collaborative work.

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  iThemba LABS (Formerly National Accelerator Centre, Cape Town South Africa) as Collaborator and invited from 26th June to 8^th July, 2006.
  

Purpose of Visit: To deliver an invited talk at the SAIP conference and for the discussion to start an Indo-SA exchange programme.

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  Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow, Russia as collaborative Researcher from 22^nd October to 8^th November, 2006.
  

Purpose of Visit: Experiment at the Flerov Laboratories for Nuclear Research and to work out a proposal for future experiment. To deliver an invited talk for the academicians of the Institute.

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  Centre for Brazilian Physics, University of Niteroi, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil as UNESCO-TWAS Senior Associate from 1^st September to 10^th November, 2008.
  

Purpose of Visit: Experiment at the University of Sao Paulo Collaborative Research at various Institutions in Brazil. To deliver an invited talk for the academicians of the Institute.

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  Centre for Brazilian Physics, University of Niteroi, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil as UNESCO-TWAS Senior Associate from 29^th May to 15^th July, 2010.
  
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  Purpose of Visit: Experiment at the University of Sao Paulo Collaborative Research at various Institutions in Brazil.
  
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  Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, P.R. China as UNESCO-TWAS Senior Associate from 28^th October to 10^th December, 2011.
  

Purpose of Visit: Experiment with Radioactive Ion Beam and data analysis at IMP, Lanzhou and Collaborative Research. China Institute

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  China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Beijing, P.R. China as Visiting Professor from 27^th November to 4^th December, 2011.
  

Purpose of Visit: Invited talk and discussion for collaborative research.

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  Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, P.R. China as PIFI Visiting Professor from 10^th December, 2015 to 6^th May 2016 (5 months).
  

Purpose of Visit: To work on my approved project and to perform experiment with Radioactive Ion Beam and data analysis at IMP, Lanzhou and Collaborative Research. China Institute. Also to work on the theoretical paper related to the empirical formula.
 Experimental & Research Collaborating Institutions (Experiments performed):

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  Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
  
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  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
  
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  Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata.
  
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  iThemba Laboratory of Accelertor in Basic Sciences, South Africa.
  
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  Flerov Laboratory for Nuclear Research, JINR, Dubna, Russia.
  
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  University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  

 Participation in Conferences / Seminars / Workshops Etc. (Last 12 Years) :

Nature of Participation	Organisers	Year	Duration
International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Bombay. (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	1995	5 Days
International Workshop on Rare Nuclear Process, Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi (Paper Presentation)	NSC, New Delhi	1998	4 Days
Nuclear Physics Symposium, B.A.R.C., Mumbai, India (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	1998	5 Days
National Workshop on Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes, Vikram University, Ujjain (Local Coordinator)	IANCAS, BARC, Mumbai	1999	10 Days
Nucl. Phys. Symposium, Physics Department, Chandigarh. (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	1999	5 Days
Acquaintance Programme for the Nuclear Science Centre Facilities, Vikram University, Ujjain. (Local Convener)	NSC, New Delhi	2000	1 Day
International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, BARC, Bombay. (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	2000	5 Days
Nuclear and Radiochemistry Symposium, University of Pune, Pune. (Invited Speaker)	DAE, Mumbai	2001	5 Days
Millennium School in Physics, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Invited Speaker)	NRF, South Africa	2001	5 Days
Annual Conference of South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. (Paper Presentation)	SAIP, South Africa	2002	3 Days
Nuclear and Radiochemistry Symposium, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	2005	4 Days
International Nuclear Physics Symposium, B.A.R.C., Mumbai, India (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	2005	5 Days
Acquaintance Programme for the Nuclear Science Centre Facilities, Sardar Patel University, Vidya Nagar. (Invited Speaker)	IUAC, New Delhi	2006	1 Day
Annual Conference of South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), University of Western Cape, South Africa. (Invited Speaker)	NRF, South Africa	2006	4 Days
Nuclear Physics Symposium, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara. (Invited Speaker)	DAE, Mumbai	2006	5 Days
Nuclear and Radiochemistry Symposium, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara. (Paper Presentation)	DAE, Mumbai	2007	5 Days
Fusion-fission Reactions with Weakly Bound Projectiles: Surrogate Reaction Approach. (Invited Speaker)	Brazilian Nuclear Physics	2008	5 Days

Prof. S. Mukherjee