Souri Banerjee Appointed As The New Director For BITS Pilani Dubai Campus

BITS Pilani has announced the appointment of Souri Banerjee as the New Director for their Dubai campus. He assumed his role in August 2024 and will be serving as the Director for the next five years. He took over from Srinivasan Madapusi who has served as director of Dubai Campus since July 2021.

Banerjee began his career at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus in 2004. In 2008, he became the founding Department Head of Physics at the Hyderabad campus. Prior to being appointed Dean of Faculty Affairs in 2018, he worked for the institute for five years as the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs in 2013, overseeing all faculty affairs at all BITS Pilani locations.

He has served in several postdoctoral positions at the University of Electro-Communications and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Electro-Communications. He also served as a Research Scientist at the Central Research Laboratory, HITACHI, Tokyo.

Souri Banerjee obtained his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata in 1997. After completing his PhD, he held a small stint at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and was also awarded the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Foreign Research Fellow two times (2012 & 2018) in recognition of his contributions to device physics.