Prof Dipankar Banerjee

Prof. Dipankar Banerjee is an astrophysicist and Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST). He specialises in the Sun and solar atmosphere, using theoretical and numerical modelling with data from ground- and space-based instruments to study the Sun and its influence on space weather. He is co-chair of the Science Working Group of ISRO’s Aditya-L1 mission, India’s first dedicated solar mission, and is also involved with NASA’s PUNCH mission. A Fellow of leading scientific academies, he has over 190 peer-reviewed publications and around 4,200 citations. He previously served as Director of ARIES, Nainital.