Somnath Bhattacharyya is a Professor in the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. After completing his Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he has worked as a Researcher in the USA, Germany and England. Later, he established his new research group the Nano-Scale Transport Physics Laboratory at the University of the Witwatersrand. His major interest is in the transport properties of carbon and has achievements including the demonstration of resonant tunnel devices based on amorphous carbon, gigahertz transport in carbon devices, n-type doping of nanocrystalline diamond and developing theoretical models for transport in disordered carbon. He has published 04 book chapters and over 70 papers in peer reviewed journals.   Somnath Bhattacharyya is a Professor in the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. After completing his Doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he has worked as a Researcher in the USA, Germany and England. Later, he established his new research group the Nano-Scale Transport Physics Laboratory at the University of the Witwatersrand. His major interest is in the transport properties of carbon and has achievements including the demonstration of resonant tunnel devices based on amorphous carbon, gigahertz transport in carbon devices, n-type doping of nanocrystalline diamond and developing theoretical models for transport in disordered carbon. He has published 04 book chapters and over 70 papers in peer reviewed journals.  

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