Soumyen Bandyopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian at Liverpool University where he was head of department and holds the Sir James Stirling Chair in Architecture.
[1] He has previously held professorial positions at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) and Nottingham Trent University.
Bandyopadhyay earned his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1998, where his doctoral research was on Manah: Architecture, Archaeology and Social Structure of a Deserted Omani Settlement[3] Bandyopadhyay currently holds the Sir James Stirling Chair and is head of the Liverpool School of Architecture.
He has previously held professorial positions at Manchester School of Architecture and Nottingham Trent University.
Together with Giamila Quattrone, Martin Goffriller and Mohammad Habib Reza, Bandyopadhyay founded the ArCHIAM (Centre for the Study of Architecture and Cultural Heritage of India, Arabia and the Maghreb) interdisciplinary research centre based at the University of Liverpool in 2013.