Shiv Nadar University, Chennai, has appointed Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya as its first Vice Chancellor. Mr. Bhattacharyya was earlier the director (officiating) at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Apart from three decades of a teaching career, he has also been the director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee. University Chancellor R. Srinivasan said the V-C would steer the University along with a team of acclaimed academicians and industry mentors to create an enabling environment that blends academic rigour, culture of research and sustained industry engagement. Mr. Bhattacharyya is the author of several books on structural engineering. He has been associated with the IIEST (Shibpur), BITS (Pilani) and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). He has been a visiting faculty at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.