ChBE alum, Dr. Animangsu Ghatak '03, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). INSA is one of India’s premier science organizations, whose objective is to foster scientific research, to nurture excellence, and to facilitate collaboration with international scientific bodies and by that process to harness scientific knowledge for humanity and national welfare. Dr. Ghatak has been elected to this august body (effective from January, 2025) for “his seminal contributions in advancing the field of surface science of soft materials, including aspects of adhesion, friction, and capillarity, as well as in the understanding of the complex interplay between capillary effects, deformation, and the resulting mechanical instabilities”.
Animangsu graduated from Lehigh's Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department in the year 2003. He worked with Professor Manoj K. Chaudhury and made significant contributions to instability of thin confined soft films. After a brief post poctoral stint at Cambridge University, UK and Harvard University, USA, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an Assistant Professor in 2004. He is a formed department head, and current full professor in this department at Kanpur.
Dr. Ghatak was elected to Indian Academy of Engineering in 2018. He received the Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2006, Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2010, and has published in Science, Advanced Materials, Physical Review Letters, Proc. National Academy of Sciences, Langmuir and Soft Matter. In 2014, Dr. Ghatak was named a Gireesh Jankinath Chair Professor in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
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