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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Aloke Paul
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| birth_place = 4 October 1973, [[Durgapur]], [[West Bengal]], India
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| residence = [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Materials science]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[University of Münster]] | [[Helsinki University of Technology]] | }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[National Institute of Technology, Durgapur|NIT Durgapur]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[Eindhoven University of Technology]] | [[University of British Columbia]] | [[University of Vienna]] | [[Nanyang Technological University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | Frans J.J. van Loo | A. A. Kodentsov }}
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| known_for = Studies on solid state diffusion
| awards = {{ublist| 2010 [[Microsoft Research|MRI]] Outstanding Young Faculty Award |2014 [[Ministry of Steel|MoS]] Metallurgist of the Year Award | 2017 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}
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'''Aloke Paul''' is an Indian materials scientist and a professor at the Department of Materials Engineering of the [[Indian Institute of Science]]. Known for his studies on solid state diffusion, Paul is an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to engineering sciences in 2017.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=535 |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=11 November 2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link – please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:Aloke Paul receiving the Bhatnagar award.jpg|alt=Aloke Paul receiving the Bhatnagar award|left|220x220px|[[File:Iisc building.jpg|thumb|Indian Institute of Science]]]]
Aloke Paul did his schooling at B-zone Boys Multipurpose High School and Bidhan Chandra Institution, Durgapur. His under graduate studies were at the Regional Engineering College (currently known as the [[National Institute of Technology, Durgapur|National Institute of Technology]]) Durgapur from where he earned the degree of BE in metallurgical engineering in 1996 and proceeded to complete his ME from the [[Indian Institute of Science]], Bengaluru in 1998.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web|url=http://materials.iisc.ac.in/~aloke/|title=Group of Prof. Aloke Paul|date=21 October 2017|access-date=8 November 2017|archive-date=8 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108151803/http://materials.iisc.ac.in/~aloke/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Subsequently, he had a stint at [[Nanyang Technological University]], Singapore as a research associate which lasted till 1999. In 2001, he moved to [[Eindhoven University of Technology]], the Netherlands for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Frans J.J. van Loo and A. A. Kodentsov to earn a PhD in 2004. In between, he had a brief stay at Institut für Anorganische Chemie of the [[University of Vienna]], Austria in February 2004. He did his post-doctoral work at [[University of British Columbia]], Vancouver, Canada at their Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) during 2004–05 and returned to India in 2005 to take up the position of an assistant professor at his alma mater, [[Indian Institute of Science]]. He has been serving IISc ever since, becoming an associate professor in 2010 and a full-time professor in 2016 where he heads the ''Diffusion in Solids Group''.<ref name="About the authors">{{Cite web|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-solid-state-diffusion-volume-1/paul/978-0-12-804287-8|title=Author information from Elsevier}}</ref> He served [[Helsinki University of Technology]] (presently known as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110203012956/http://www.aalto.fi/en/ Aalto University]), Finland as a visiting professor in 2008 and [[University of Münster]], Germany in 2012 as an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee" />

== Legacy and honours ==
Aloke Paul is known to have made notable contribution in the field of solid state [[diffusion]].<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=17 October 2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=17 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Biographical Information - Aloke Paul">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444537706|title=David E. Laughlin and Kazuhiro Hono (Eds), Physical Metallurgy (Fifth Edition), Elsevier, 2015, Chapter 5, Volume 1: Zoltan Balogh, Guido Schmitz, Diffusion in Metals and Alloys.}}</ref> While at Eindhoven University of Technology, he was among the group of scientists who made pathbreaking discovery showing previously unknown phenomena related to the Kirkendall effect leading to finer understanding based on new models, which are included in the textbooks.<ref name="Biographical Information - Aloke Paul" />

After joining the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, his group established the mathematical formalism for physico-chemical approach that quantitatively relates diffusion rates of components with microstructural evolution, an important aspect to understand many physical and mechanical properties of materials.<ref name="Diffusion in High entropy alloys">{{Cite book|title=Aloke Paul, Tomi Laurila, Vesa Vuorinen, Sergiy Divinski, Thermodynamics, Diffusion and the Kirkendall effect in Solids, Springer, Germany, 2014|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-07461-0|year=2014|last1=Paul|first1=Aloke|last2=Laurila|first2=Tomi|last3=Vuorinen|first3=Vesa|last4=Divinski|first4=Sergiy V|isbn=978-3-319-07460-3}}</ref>

Prof. Paul's group is currently working on developing new quantitative models which facilitates the estimation of meaningful composition dependent diffusion coefficients in multicomponent systems by tailoring the experiments to counter the complications of mathematical formalism given by [[Lars Onsager]]. This was considered impossible otherwise during last many decades.<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iisc.ac.in/a-new-hope-in-solid-state-multicomponent-diffusion/|title=Research highlights of Prof. Aloke Paul|publisher=IISc}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|date=1 April 2018|title=A novel concept of pseudo ternary diffusion couple for the estimation of diffusion coefficients in multicomponent systems|journal=Scripta Materialia|language=en|volume=147|pages=79–82|doi=10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.01.002|issn=1359-6462|last1=Esakkiraja|first1=Neelamegan|last2=Paul|first2=Aloke|arxiv=1801.04054|s2cid=118938926}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=1 July 2015|title=Estimation of intrinsic diffusion coefficients in a pseudo-binary diffusion couple|journal=Scripta Materialia|language=en|volume=103|pages=18–21|doi=10.1016/j.scriptamat.2015.02.027|issn=1359-6462|last1=Santra|first1=Sangeeta|last2=Paul|first2=Aloke|arxiv=1510.02564|s2cid=119230814}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=15 February 2016|title=Growth mechanism of the interdiffusion zone between platinum modified bond coats and single crystal superalloys|journal=Acta Materialia|language=en|volume=105|pages=438–448|doi=10.1016/j.actamat.2015.12.014|issn=1359-6454|last1=Kiruthika|first1=P|last2=Makineni|first2=S.K|last3=Srivastava|first3=C|last4=Chattopadhyay|first4=K|last5=Paul|first5=A}}</ref>

Several aspects of his work are being included in new textbooks written on solid state diffusion.<ref name="Biographical Information - Aloke Paul" /><ref name="On Google Scholar" />

Besides, Paul has published four books, a two-volume work, ''Handbook of Solid State Diffusion'',<ref name="PaulDivinski2017-1">{{cite book|author1=Aloke Paul|author2=Sergiy Divinski|title=Handbook of Solid State Diffusion: Volume 1: Diffusion Fundamentals and Techniques|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JW1_CwAAQBAJ|date=11 April 2017|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-0-12-804360-8}}</ref><ref name="PaulDivinski2017-2">{{cite book|author1=Aloke Paul|author2=Sergiy Divinski|title=Handbook of Solid State Diffusion: Volume 2: Diffusion Analysis in Material Applications|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-solid-state-diffusion-volume-2/paul/978-0-12-804548-0|date=11 April 2017|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=9780128045480}}</ref> ''Diffusion in Ni and Fe-Aluminides'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scientific.net/DF.13/book|title=Diffusion Foundations|website=www.scientific.net|language=en|access-date=29 November 2017}}</ref> ''Thermodynamics, Diffusion and the Kirkendall Effect in Solids.''<ref name="PaulLaurila2014">{{cite book|author1=Aloke Paul|author2=Tomi Laurila|author3=Vesa Vuorinen, Sergiy V. Divinski|title=Thermodynamics, Diffusion and the Kirkendall Effect in Solids|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9kkBAAAQBAJ|date=16 July 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-07461-0}}</ref> He is editorial board member of ''[[Journal of Electronic Materials]]'', ''[https://www.scientific.net/DF Diffusion Foundations]'', and ''[[Scientific Reports]]''. He is a member of the international advisory panel of Diffusion in Materials (DIMAT) series.

In 2010, Paul received the Outstanding Young Faculty Award of the Indian chapter of [[Microsoft Research]]<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> and four years later, the [[Ministry of Steel]] of the Government of India selected him as the Metallurgist of the Year Award in 2014.
<ref name="Metallurgist of the Year Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iim-india.net/uploads/award/1504863778.pdf |title=Metallurgist of the Year Award |date=17 October 2017 |publisher=IIM-India |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2017.<ref name="10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/10-scientists-receive-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-prize/article19758442.ece |title=10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |date=26 September 2017 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>
In 2020, he was elected as the fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences.<ref>https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/News/New_Fellows_wef_2020.pdf</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JW1_CwAAQBAJ|title=Handbook of Solid State Diffusion: Volume 1: Diffusion Fundamentals and Techniques|author1=Aloke Paul|author2=Sergiy Divinski (Editors)|publisher=Elsevier Science|year=2017|isbn=9780128043608}}
* {{cite book|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-solid-state-diffusion-volume-2/paul/978-0-12-804548-0|title=Handbook of Solid State Diffusion: Volume 2: Diffusion Analysis in Material Applications|author1=Aloke Paul|author2=Sergiy Divinski (Editors)|publisher=Elsevier Science|year=2017}}
* {{cite book|url=https://www.scientific.net/DF.13/book|title=Diffusion in Ni and Fe-Aluminides|author1=Aloke Paul (Editor)|publisher=Trans Tech Publications Ltd|year=2017}}
* {{cite book|title=Thermodynamics, Diffusion and the Kirkendall Effect in Solids|author1=Aloke Paul|author2=Tomi Laurila|author3=Vesa Vuorinen, Sergiy V. Divinski|date=2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-07460-3|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-07461-0}}
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== See also==
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*[[List of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipients]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://materials.iisc.ac.in/2017/09/prof-aloke-paul-receives-the-prestigious-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-award-2017/ |title=Prof. Aloke Paul receives the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, 2017 |date=27 September 2017 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=8 November 2017}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&text=Aloke+Paul&search-alias=books-uk&field-author=Aloke+Paul&sort=relevancerank |title=Aloke Paul on Amazon |date=27 September 2017 |website=Amazon |access-date=8 November 2017}}

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