Research Council

The Research Council is a high level think tank for the laboratory provides direction and vision and helps to design road map to achieve it. The Research Council is reconstituted for a period of 3 years with its mandate to advise on the formulation of R&D programmes and future directions of activities of the Laboratory keeping in view the planned programmes, national priorities and opportunity areas, suggest networking with other CSIR National Laboratories on programmes of mutual interest, review R&D activities and research programmes and advise on future directions, advise on fostering linkages between the laboratory, industry and potential clients, constitute panel of experts for selection of Scientific staff, any other functions as may be assigned by Director General/Governing Body of CSIR.

Research Council Member

Prof. Amol A Gokhale
Chairman

Former Director, Defence
Metallurgical Research
Laboratory,
Hyderabad

Dr. Gautam K. Dey
Member

Former Associate
Director, Materials
Group, Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre,
Mumbai

Prof. V.S. Raja
Member

Institute Chair Professor,
Department of Metallurgical
Engineering and Materials
Science, IIT Bombay

Mr. Vinay Mahashabde
Member

Chief Technology Officer
Products,
Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

Dr. Vilas D. Tathavadkar
Member

Senior Vice President, Aditya
Birla Science and Technology
Company, Raigarh

Dr. R.N. Patra
Member

Former chairman IRE,
Mumbai

Prof. S.K. Bhatnagar
Member

Department of Cell Biology,
College of Biotechnology,
SVBP University of
Agriculture & Technology,
Meerut

Dr. R.R. Hirwani
Member

Former-Director, CSIR-Unit for
Research and Development of
Information Products,
Pune

Dr. K. Muraleedharan
Member

Director, CSIR-Central Glass
& Ceramic Research
Institute, Kolkata

Dr. Arun K. Bhaduri
Member

Director, Indira Gandhi
Centre for Atomic
Research,
Kalpakkam

Prof. B.K. Mishra
Member

Director, IIT Goa

Prof. Dipak Mazumdar
Member

Ministry Of Steel Chair
Professor, Department Of
Materials Science &
Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Dr. Suddhasatwa Basu
Member

Director, CSIR- Institute of
Minerals and Materials
Technology, Bhubneswar

Dr. I. Chattoraj
Member

Director, CSIR-National
Metallurgical Laboratory ,
Jamshedpur