Prof. Amrita Bhattacharya leads the Ab Initio Computational Materials Simulation Laboratory in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay. Her research focuses on understanding and predicting microscopic phenomena behind electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of emerging materials using advanced quantum mechanical, density-functional-theory-based methods. Her current interests include charge and heat transport in thermoelectric solids, magnetic interactions in strongly correlated materials, and defect analysis in semiconductors.