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'''Dipankar Banerjee''' (born 1965) is an Indian solar physicist. He is a senior Professor of Solar Physics at the [[Indian Institute of Astrophysics]] (Bangalore)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://www.iiap.res.in/people/personnel/dipu/ |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=www.iiap.res.in}}</ref> and currently serves as the vice chancellor of the [[Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology]].<ref name="TH_sep24">{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/dipankar-banerjee-to-head-indian-institute-of-space-science-and-technology/article68605315.ece |title=Dipankar Banerjee to head Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology |date=5 September 2024 |work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=2024-10-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://www.iist.ac.in/aboutus/direct |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=www.iist.ac.in}}</ref> Prior to this, he served as the director of the [[Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences]] (ARIES).<ref>{{Cite web |title=People {{!}} Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences |url=https://www.aries.res.in/scientist |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=www.aries.res.in}}</ref>. He is currently serving as the Director of the [[Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology]] (IIST). <ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Dipankar Banerjee {{!}} Indian Institute of Space sciences and Technology |url=https://www.iist.ac.in/director/home |access-date=2025-12-21 |website=www.iist.ac.in}}</ref>.

== Education and early career ==
In 1987, Banerjee who was a student of Ballygunge Government High School<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education {{!}} Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://www.iiap.res.in/people/personnel/dipu/?q=education |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=www.iiap.res.in}}</ref> completed a Bachelor's Degree at [[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata|St. Xaviers College]], Calcutta in Physics (major), Chemistry and Mathematics. In 1996 he completed his PhD "Magnetohydrodynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere" at the [[Indian Institute of Astrophysics]] (Bangalore) with Prof. S.S. Hasan.<ref>{{Citation |title=Eureka with Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQxlM1EB68 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-14}}</ref> Via a [[PPARC]] fellowship, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at [[Armagh Observatory]] between 1997 and 2000 on solar atmospheric dynamics using the [[Solar and Heliospheric Observatory|SOHO spacecraft]]. This was followed by a Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders) fellowship at the [[KU Leuven|Katholic University of Leuven]] between 2000 and 2002. In 2004, he returned to the [[Indian Institute of Astrophysics]] (Bangalore) and was appointed as a Director of ARIES in 2019 and served till 2024. His wife, Tisha Banerjee has a PhD in Cell and molecular biology and serves as a General manager in a company.He has a daughter named Teerna Banerjee who is a PhD candidate in cell and molecular biology at University College Dublin. As well as a son named Arno Banerjee who is a masters student in Global Change: Ecosystem Science and Policy in University College Dublin and Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

== Research interests ==
Banerjee's primary research interest is the dynamics of the solar atmosphere.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_f_xUL8AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> In particular, he has focussed on the propagation of wavs through the solar [[chromosphere]] and [[Stellar corona|corona]], including innovations in the technique of atmospheric magnetoseismology.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Banerjee |first1=D. |last2=Erdélyi |first2=R. |last3=Oliver |first3=R. |last4=O’Shea |first4=E. |date=2007-11-01 |title=Present and Future Observing Trends in Atmospheric Magnetoseismology |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-007-9029-z |journal=Solar Physics |language=en |volume=246 |issue=1 |pages=3–29 |doi=10.1007/s11207-007-9029-z |bibcode=2007SoPh..246....3B |s2cid=121929810 |issn=1573-093X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He has also studied [[space weather]] and the [[solar dynamo]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Desikan |first=Shubashree |date=2019-03-16 |title=Solar tsunami can trigger the sunspot cycle |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/solar-tsunami-can-trigger-the-sunspot-cycle/article26556218.ece |access-date=2022-08-14 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> through long-term observations such as those provided by the 100-year synoptic data from [[Kodaikanal Solar Observatory|Kodaikanal Observatory]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Desikan |first=Shubashree |date=2017-05-06 |title=100 years with our closest star, the sun |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/100-years-with-our-closest-star-the-sun/article18400934.ece |access-date=2022-08-15 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
* 1997: [[Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council|PPARC]] postdoctoral fellowship
* 2002: Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders) fellowship
* 2013: Visiting professor (Capita Selecta Lecturer) at Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, [[KU Leuven|K.U. Leuven]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professional Experience {{!}} Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://www.iiap.res.in/people/personnel/dipu/?q=professional_experience |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=www.iiap.res.in}}</ref>
* 2015: Associate Editor for [[Solar Physics (journal)|Solar Physics]]
* 2016: Co-I of Polarimeter on the [[PUNCH]] spacecraft<ref>{{Cite web |title=PUNCH: Science Team |url=https://punch.space.swri.edu/punch_science_workinggroups.php |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=punch.space.swri.edu}}</ref>
* 2017: PI of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory data archive<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Projects {{!}} Dipankar Banerjee |url=https://www.iiap.res.in/people/personnel/dipu/?q=role |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=www.iiap.res.in}}</ref>
* 2017: Co-I for near-UV imaging instrument (SUIT) on the [[Aditya-L1]] mission<ref>{{Cite news |last=Desikan |first=Shubashree |date=2017-11-25 |title=Here comes the sun watcher, India's Aditya-L1 |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/here-comes-the-sun-watcher-indias-aditya-l1/article61592216.ece |access-date=2022-08-15 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
* 2017: Co-chair of the science working group for the [[Aditya-L1|Aditya-1]] mission
* 2020: Editor for Frontiers Stellar and Solar Physics<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences {{!}} Stellar and Solar Physics |url=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/sections/stellar-and-solar-physics#editorial-board |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Frontiers |language=en}}</ref>

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