Prof. Satyabrata Mohapatra is presently working as Professor in the University School of Basic and Applied Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. Prof. Mohapatra received his Ph.D. in Physics from Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar, India. After a Postdoctoral stay at IUAC, New Delhi, Brain Korea Visiting Scientist from SAINT, South Korea and CNRS Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow from CSNSM, Orsay, France Prof. Mohapatra joined Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi in 2008 where he has been working as Full Professor and heading the Multifunctional Nanomaterials Laboratory.

Prof. Mohapatra is an elected Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society (FICS) and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, India and has been bestowed with the highly prestigious MRSI Medal (2024) for his outstanding contributions to Materials Science and Engineering. His excellent research is reflected by his more than 140 papers in international journals with more than 6000 Citations with H-index 46, 1 book, 2 book chapters and 115 papers presented/published in National/ International Conferences. Prof. Mohapatra has figured in the World's Top 2% Scientists in Applied Physics for the last 7 years (2020-2026) by Stanford University USA and Elsevier with best All India Rank # 29 in Applied Physics. Prof. Mohapatra has figured as "Highly Ranked Scholar" in the World Top 0.05% Scientists in Nanostructure with All India Rank # 2 and World Rank # 29 (last 5 years) and All India Rank # 12 (Lifetime).

Prof. Mohapatra  serves as an Editor of NANO, Editor of Materials Open, Associate Editor of Surface Review and Letters, Associate Editor of Nanocatalysis section of Frontiers in Nanotechnology, Associate Editor of Nanoscience section of Frontiers in Chemistry, and is also on the Editorial Boards of several international journals such as Applied Surface Science Advances, Chemical Engineering Journal: Engineered Materials, Discover Applied Sciences, and Current Nanoscience. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the highly prestigious MRSI Medal (2024), Outstanding Researcher Award (2025), Outstanding Researcher Award (2024), Faculty Achievement Award (2021), Faculty Achievement Award (2016), Best Researcher in Science Award (2014) and DST Young Scientist Award (2008) and has been included in Top 10% highly cited authors in Royal Society of Chemistry physical portfolio journals. Prof. Mohapatra has figured as ‘Highly Ranked Scholar’ in the World Top 0.05% Scientists in Nanostructure. He has been working as a reviewer for over 120 international journals of repute. His research is focused on the development of multifunctional hybrid nanostructures, metal oxides, transition metal dichalcogenides and 2D materials based hybrid plasmonic nanostructures and nanocomposites and their ion beam engineering for applications in photocatalysis, catalysis, gas sensing, biosensing, energy harvesting, development of strong antimicrobials and most importantly “water purification”.