IIT Kharagpur Director Prof. Suman Chakraborty is elected a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences

6 November 2026

The Ministry of Education has announced that the head of IIT Kharagpur, Professor Suman Chakraborty, now joins the fellowship of The World Academy of Sciences, and he takes that fellowship from January 1, 2027. What the honour recognises, the Ministry said, is his research record together with his long effort to carry science forward in the developing world. Congratulations reached him in a formal letter signed by the President of the academy, Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim. Building research strength in poorer countries, and pushing scientific excellence, is what this international academy exists to do. At his own institute he holds an Institute Chair Professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with a national fellowship named after an Indian physicist. Fellowships of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the three national science academies of India are already his, and a formal introduction to the academy will follow at its next General Conference.