Dr. Indranil Manna, Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra on Monday. Dr. Manna is a Ph.D in Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, M.Tech. in Physical Metallurgy from IIT, Kharagpur and B.E. Metallurgy from Calcutta University. He is also a recipient of the Premchand Roychand scholarship (PRS), Applied Physics (Metallurgy) from Calcutta University.
Dr Manna joined IIT, Kharagpur in 1985 as Lecturer and rose to the position of Full Professor in 2003 and HAG Professor in 2009. He continued in this position till he joined CSIR-CGCRI as Director in March 2010. Thereafter, he also had a distinguished tenure as Director of IIT, Kanpur from 2012-2017. He has contributed over 250 journal publications, collected over 6000 citations, supervised 25 PhD theses and conducted multiple high value sponsored projects at IIT-Kharagpur.