Thapar University

Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee
Director
Thapar University, Patiala-147004
Email: director@tiet.ac.in
Phone: 0175-2393001

Professor Abhijit Mukherjee graduated in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1980. Thereafter he was associated with the Development Consultants where he designed the nuclear power stations for the Department of Atomic Energy and rocket launching stations for Indian Space Research Organisation.He earned Ph D from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1987. He has pursued post doctoral work in Max Planck Institute of Materials Research, Stuttgart and Institute of Computer Applications in Germany. Professor Mukherjee joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1988 as a lecturer. He is a Professor of the same Institute since 1997. He has taken over the Directorship of the  Thapar University, Patiala since 03 July 2006.

His research interests are mechanics of composites, structural rehabilitation and retrofitting, structural health monitoring, and inverse problems of structural engineering. He has supervised twelve Ph D students and fifty-two masters students. Professor Mukherjee has more than 130 publications in archival international journals, and conferences.