Debdulal Roy

Debdulal Roy is a researcher at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK. Deb obtained a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, prior to getting his PhD degree as a Nehru Scholar from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK. “I worked on a thesis entitled “Raman Spectroscopic Study of Carbon Nanostructures”, after which I spent two years at the Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge in Mark Welland's lab before joining NPL as a Strategic Research Fellow in 2005,” says Deb, “During this period I worked on developing a tip-enhanced Raman spectrometer in reflection mode.” Deb collaborates with a number of research groups in universities including University of Cambridge, University of Bristol, CNRS-Orleans and King's College London on various topics in scanning probe microscopy and analysis of nanostructures. Deb now leads the research area on Analytical Nanoprobes at NPL.