Purushottam Chakraborty

• "Premchand Roychand Scholarship (PRS)", awarded by the Calcutta University, 1979,

for indigenously fabricating a quadrupole mass spectrometer for Secondary Ion Emission Studies.

• "Rashbehari Ghose Fellowship", awarded by the Calcutta University, 1984.

• Recipient of the "Mouat Silver Medal" of the Calcutta University, 1988.

• Visiting Scientist at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam,

The Netherlands, August 1984 - December 1985.

• Scientific Visits (on invitation) at the Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin,

Poland and the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Sept. 5 -14, 1987

• Scientific visits (on invitation) to Germany to deliver a series of talks at the X-ray Optics Department,

Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena and the Physics Department, Bielefeld University, Germany,

November 15 - 30, 1993.

• ICTP Fellowship for working at the Physics Department, Padova University, Padova, Italy,

15 April 1993 - 15 October 1994.

• Visited (on invitation) Synchrotron Centre, Trieste, Italy and delivered a talk on

"Preparations and Applications of Multilayered Coatings", 4th August, 1994.

• Visiting Professor at the Physics Department, Laval Université, Québec, Canada,

1st November 1994 – 31st January 1995

• Invited by the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, to contribute a review article

on SIMS for a special volume of the journal "Annales UMCS" (Poland)

• "Examinership", offered (1995) by the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India,

to act as an adjudicator for a Ph.D. (Physics) thesis of the same University.

• Invited by the Editor, J. Non. Cryst. Solids, (Elsevier, Netherlands), to act as a reviewer in 1994.

• Invited by the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Calcutta, to deliver the "K. C. Kar Memmorial Talk"

31st August 1996.

• Editorial Assignment (invited) for the book on "Ion Beam Analyses of Surfaces and Interfaces of

Condensed Matter Systems" (NOVA Science Publishers, Inc, New York, USA).

• Invited Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Asian International Seminar

on Atomic and Molecular Physics (2000).

• Invited by the Editor, Indian J. Physics, to contribute a review article on Secondary Ion Mass

Spectrometry (2000)

• Visited (on invitation) the Physics Department, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

and delivered a talk on 19th October 2000.

• "Examinership" offered (2001) by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India,

to act as an adjudicator for a Ph.D. (Physics) thesis of the same University.

• Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 20th International Conference

on Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS-20), 19-24 January, Puri, India

• Visited (on invitation) Spring-8, Japan and delivered a talk on SIMS (7th October 2002).

• Invited by the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan to deliver a talk on

"SIMS for Surface Compositional Analysis", 8th October, 2002.

• Member of the Referee Panel of Indian Journal of Physics, Indian Journal of Pure and

Applied Physics, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, etc.

• Awarded "Most Eminent Mass Spectrometrist of India" by the Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry (ISMAS)

on 27th January, 2003.

• Invited by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai to deliver a talk, February 3, 2003.