Samir Bramachari

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Samir Kumar Brahmachari (born 1 January 1952) is an Indian biophysicist and Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, part of the Department of Science and Technology.

Life

Brahmachari gained a BSc in chemistry from the University of Calcutta in 1972, followed by an MSc in pure chemistry in 1974. In 1978 he completed a PhD in Molecular Biophysics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He followed this with post-doctoral research at Paris Diderot University and a position as a visiting scientist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 1979 he became a research associate at the Indian Institute of Science, and in 1981 became a lecturer. In 1986 he became an assistant professor, and in 1992 an Associate Professor. In 1997 he became a full professor, and the same year spent time as a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. On 11 August 1997 he became director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, part of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and on 12 November 2006 was made Director General of CSIR.^{id="cite_ref-igib_1-0" class="reference">[2}