Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Anirban Bandyopadhyay is an Indian physicist and nanoscientist known for his research in molecular electronics, unconventional computing, and biophysics of consciousness. He is currently a Principal Research Scientist at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), part of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan.

Bandyopadhyay completed his Ph.D. in physics at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom (2003–2004).

Bandyopadhyay joined NIMS in 2005 as an ICYS Research Fellow under Japan's MEXT program. He later held positions as a scientist in the Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy group from 2008 to 2010 and senior scientist in the Surface Characterization group from 2011 to 2020. In 2021, he became a principal research scientist in the Functional Chromophore group at NIMS' International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA).

He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013–2014. Bandyopadhyay has served in editorial roles for journals including Frontiers in Neuroscience, Information (MDPI), and the International Journal of Unconventional Computing. Provided by Wikipedia