Name :	Milan Kumar Sanyal
Date and place of Birth:	6th Jan. 1954, Ranaghat, West Bengal, India.
Official and Mailing address :	Prof. M.K. Sanyal, Surface Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, BidhanNagar, Calcutta 700 064, INDIA. Email. milank.sanyal@saha.ac.in Fax :- (033)3374637, Tel :- (033)3375346 (O)          (033)3215453 (R)
Education and Career :	B.Sc., Physics(Hons), Kalyani University, 1975. Graduation from Training School of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 1979 M.Sc., Physics, University of Bombay, 1980 Ph.D., Physics, University of Bombay, 1987 Scientific Officer, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 1977-1995 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA 1989-1992 Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1995-Present Head, Surface Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1997-Present.
Awards and Fellowships:	Fellow, Indian National Science Academy. Fellow, Indian Academy Sciences. Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India. First prize in the Fifth Colloquium for Young Physicists (1987) Indian Physical Society. N.S. Satya Murthy memorial Young Scientist award of the Indian Physics Association, 1987. Medal of Material Research Society, India 2000.
Teaching :	Teaching of the course "Condensed Matter Physics" at Training School of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre 1992, 1993 Teaching of the course "Quantum Mechanics" and "Surface Physics" at Post-MSc School of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 1996-1998
Scientific edition and organisation of conferences :-
1995	School on surface physics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
1998	India-Italy Workshop on Utilisation of Elettra synchrotron, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
1999	Discussion meeting on Material research using accelerator facilities, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.
2000	Guest Editor of Special Issue of Current Science Journal on Surface Characterisation Techniques
Scientific Interests and main Results:
2000 - Present	Structure-Property relationship in ultra-thin films and nanomaterials
1995 - Present	Study of Langmuir Blodgett (LB) films using x-ray scattering and Atomic Force Microscopy
1997 - 2000	X-ray reflectivity and development of inversion scheme
1995 - 2000	Study of ultra-thin metallic films using x-ray scattering and Atomic Force Microscopy
1989 - 1992	Synchrotron studies of Liquid surface and complex fluids (NSLS, USA)
1990 - 1992	Synchrotron and neutron studies of magnetic structure (NSLS, USA)
1984 - 1988	Studies of quasicrystalline structures using x-ray diffraction and positron annihilation techniques
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