Citizenship India Fields Physicist Name Joyanti Chutia | Nationality Indian Alma mater University of Pune | |
Institutions Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology | ||
Prof. Joyanti Sutiya is the Former Director of The Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology and currently an Emeritus Scientist at Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. She is one of only two women to head any scientific institution in India.
She is one of the founder scientists of IASST and had been working for about 27 years in the institute where she set up the plasma physics laboratory and led a talented group of young scientists in this field of research. She served the institute in different capacities and subsequently hold the post of Directorship for seven years. During this tenure, the institution was taken over by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India in 2009 from the State Govt. of Assam. Prof. Sutiya had been instrumental seeing through the progress of the initial years after it came to the fold of Govt. of India.
She completed 9 research projects sponsored by different Govt. departments, DST, DAE etc. and continued her work on fuel cells and solar cells sponsored by MNRE, Govt. of India. Her research achievements are mainly on nonlinear phenomena of plasmas, plasma processing, nano-science, plasma processed biomaterials, fuel cell etc. She has a total of 145 research publications to her credit (88 in international journals). Prof. Sutiya is a prolific writer and so far 21 books written by her have been published and has guided 15 Ph. D. students.
She was awarded 10 regional and 1 national award for her original research work and popular science writing. She is a fellow of The National Academy of Sciences since 2005.