Ajit Kumar Mohanty | |
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| Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India | |
| Assumed office 3 May 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas |
| Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | |
| In office 12 March 2019 –15 September 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas |
| Succeeded by | Vivek Bhasin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 October 1959 |
| Alma mater | University of Mumbai |
Ajit Kumar Mohanty (born 11 October 1959) is an Indian nuclear physicist currently serving as Secretary to the Government of India,Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. [1] Previously,he served as the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) from March 2019 till September 2023. [2]
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He has made contributions to several areas of nuclear physics covering collision energy from the sub-Coulomb barrier to the relativistic regime using the Pelletron accelerator at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),PHENIX,and CMS experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL),USA and CERN,Geneva. [3]
He held several honorary positions at various organizations. He served the Indian Physics Association (IPA) as General Secretary and later as its President. He had been the Spokesperson for India-CMS collaboration,Director,Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,and Director,Physics Group,BARC. He has twice been the CERN Scientific Associate,first during 2002-2004 and again during 2010-2011. [3]