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'''Archana Bhattacharyya''' (born 1948) is an Indian [[physicist]]. She specializes in the field of [[ionospheric]] physics, [[Earth's magnetic field|geomagnetism]], and [[space weather]] and is Director of the [[Indian Institute of Geomagnetism]], [[Navi Mumbai]].<ref name = "Biography">{{cite web|title=IAS- Archana Bhattacharyya|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/archana.html#15|accessdate=15 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="INSA">{{cite web|title=INSA - Archana Bhattacharyya |url=http://www.insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P09-1477 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315214010/http://www.insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P09-1477 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 March 2014 |accessdate=15 March 2014 }}</ref><br />
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==Education==<br />
Bhattacharyya completed B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc in Physics from the [[University of Delhi]] in 1967 and 1969, respectively. She also held a National Science Talent Scholarship (1964–69). She received PhD degree in Physics from [[Northwestern University]] (1975), working in the area of [[Condensed matter physics|theoretical condensed matter]] physics.<ref name = "INSA"/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Bhattacharyya joined the [[Indian Institute of Geomagnetism]] (IIG), [[Mumbai]] in 1978.<ref name="iigm" /> She worked with the group of KC Yeh at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during 1986-87 and during 1998–2000 she was a Senior NRC Resident Research Associate at the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]] in Massachusetts, USA. She was the Director of IIG during 2005–2010. Currently, she is an Emeritus Scientist at IIG.<ref name = "INSA"/><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
*The Professor KR Ramanathan Memorial Lecture and Medal by the [[Indian Geophysical Union]] in 2008<br />
*Dr. KS Krishnan Gold Medal by the University of Delhi in 1969<br />
*Fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name = "INSA"/><br />
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==Research interests==<br />
*Plasma instabilities in the equatorial ionosphere<br />
*Probing the ionosphere with radio waves<br />
*Effects of space weather on the ionosphere<br />
*Spatio-temporal variations of the geomagnetic field<ref name="iigm">{{cite web|url=http://iigm.res.in/index.php/the-institute/people/academic/144|title=Dr A Bhattacharya|publisher=iigm.res.in|accessdate=2014-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315202250/http://iigm.res.in/index.php/the-institute/people/academic/144|archive-date=15 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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