Dr. Sanat Kumar Das is an Associate Professor at Bose Institute, Kolkata. He began his research career in 2003 at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he was a Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Tirupati, and later National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He joined Bose Institute in 2013. Dr. Das has held several notable international positions, including Resident Scientist at the UNEP Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP), Hanimaadhoo, Maldives, and Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Canada, and later the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. He is a recipient of the DST-Ramanujan Fellowship (India) and the MEXT Fellowship (Japan). His research in Atmospheric Physics involves extensive field-based observational studies in diverse and challenging environments such as the Himalayan hill-tops, Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Thar Desert, ship-based campaigns in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, and scientific expeditions to both the poles, Antarctica and the Arctic.
