YCN Representative - Austria (2)

Sayan Chattopadhyay

YCN representative for Austria 

PhD researcher at the Chair of Physical Chemistry, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

sayan.chattopadhyay@unileoben.ac.at 

Sayan Chattopadhyay is a PhD researcher at the Chair of Physical Chemistry, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. His work focuses on developing innovative manufacturing technologies for solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells, including multi-material tape casting, lithography-based 3D printing, and novel sintering approaches, as well as new electrode materials that avoid the use of critical raw materials.
Sayan earned his Bachelor’s degree in Ceramic Technology from Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, and his Master’s degree in Ceramic Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, graduating with a gold medal. Before joining Montanuniversität Leoben, Sayan worked as a research assistant at the Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research in Jena, Germany, where he developed photo-curable resins and ceramic slurries for additive manufacturing. He also gained research experience in nanomaterials synthesis, electrochemistry, and thin-film processing during research stays at the Technical University of Braunschweig (as a DAAD scholar), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and IIT (BHU) Varanasi. His research has been published in journals such as Ceramics International, ACS Applied Nano Materials, and Nature Communications, and he has presented his work at several international conferences.
Having studied and worked in India, Germany, and Austria, Sayan enjoys being part of an international research community and values collaboration across disciplines. His future research will focus on advancing additive manufacturing of ceramics through the development of printable multi-material systems and innovative low-temperature sintering strategies. His aim to achieve precise microstructural control and defect-free ceramic components with reduced reliance on critical raw materials. A key objective of Sayan is to translate these technologies from laboratory scale to industrial production by developing scalable, robust, and cost-effective processing routes for applications in energy systems, electronics, and advanced structural components.

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