Dr Indranil Manna is Professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur.
He was recently appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.
Dr Manna holds a PhD in Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, MTech in Physical Metallurgy from IIT, Kharagpur and a BE Metallurgy from Calcutta University.
He is also a recipient of the Premchand Roychand Scholarship in Applied Physics (Metallurgy) from Calcutta University.
Dr Manna joined IIT, Kharagpur in 1985 as a Lecturer and rose to the position of Professor in 2003 and HAG Professor in 2009.
He continued in this position until he joined CSIR-CGCRI as Director in March 2010. He has also had a distinguished tenure as the Director of IIT, Kanpur from 2012-2017.
He has contributed over 250 journal publications, collected over 6000 citations, supervised twenty-five PhD theses and conducted multiple high value sponsored projects at IIT-Kharagpur.
