Arun Kumar Bhaduri, a metallurgical scientist from West Bengal took over as the director of Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, a premier research laboratory under the Department of Atomic Energy on Thursday. His predecessor S A V Satya Murthy retired on Thursday.
Bhaduri is a product of Calcutta Boys School (1978) and holds B Tech and Ph D in metallurgical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is also a winner of the Homi Bhabha Medal, awarded by the Training School of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre from where he graduated as a nuclear scientist in 1984.
A release by IGCAR said Bhaduri is an authority on development of materials and their fabrication technologies for Indian programmes on fast breeder reactors, fusion reactors and advanced ultra supercritical thermal power plants.