Srikumar Banerjee

Prior to his stint as DAE chairman, he was the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) from 30 April 2004 to 19 May 2010.

[3] In 1967, Banerjee obtained a B.Tech degree with honours in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

He joined the erstwhile Metallurgy Division of BARC in 1968 and spent his entire scientific career in this establishment.

[4] On the basis of the work carried out by him in the first few years of his career in BARC, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in metallurgical engineering by IIT, Kharagpur, in 1974.

Dr. Banerjee was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Engineering Science (1989) for his work on the development of thermo-mechanical treatment of Zr-2.5%Nb pressure tube for Indian pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) and Government of India’s civilian award, Padma Shri, in 2005 for his contribution in development of Ni-Ti-Fe based shape memory alloy (SMA) fasteners.