Professor Milind Atrey is currently Dean (Research and Development) and Chair Professor at IIT Bombay, India. A Mechanical Engineering graduate of VNIT Nagpur, he obtained his Doctorate from IIT Bombay in 1991. He works in the area of refrigeration and cryogenic engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Prof. Atrey's experience in the area of cryogenic engineering is a unique blend of corporate research, work in government research laboratories and academia. Following a brief stint with the Tata Research Design and Development Centre, Pune, after completing his doctorate, he worked on the 3 stage Stirling Cryocooler and 4K G-M Coolers for his post-doctoral research at the University of Giessen, Germany. Subsequently, he worked at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) for 5 years on a project aimed at the indigenization of a cryogenic technology. Prof. Atrey returned to corporate research once again, joining the Technical Development group at Oxford Instruments Superconductivity, Oxford, UK. His body of work included NMR/MRI cryogenic technology, cold probe technology for NMR and the development of 4K Pulse Tube Cryocoolers. The cold probe technology developed by his group proved to be path-breaking for NMR researchers while the group could demonstrate, for the first time in the world, a Helium recondensing technology on an NMR superconducting magnet. At IIT Bombay, Prof. Atrey has developed various Pulse Tube Cryocoolers, Mixed-Refrigerant Joule Thomson cryocoolers, thermoacoustic coolers etc. His recent research includes cryogenic two phase flow, pulsating heat pipe, heat exchangers, cryosurgery etc.
