BINU MUKHERJEE completed the equivalent of a general B.Sc. degree at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, at Pondicherry, India, He then went on to complete another undergraduate degree obtaining a First Class Honors in Physics at the University of St. Andrews. in 1965. He continued his graduate work while working as a Demonstrator in Physics at the same University and obtained his Ph.D, based on research on the Intermediate State in Type 1 Superconductors.
Since 1969, Dr. Mukherjee has been at the Royal Military College of Canada where he is currently a Professor of Physics having recently completed a stint as Head of the Physics Department. After joining RMC, he continued to work in the general area of superconductivity. Together with Professor David Baird he carried out an investigation of the electric current-induced and magnetic field-induced intermediate states in Type I superconductors and developed the currently accepted models of these states.
In 1988, at the request of the Canadian Department of National Defence, Dr. Mukherjee established a laboratory to accurately determine the properties of piezoelectric ceramics. He and his co-workers have since developed a rather unique laboratory with a whole range of experimental methods to better characterize and understand the behavior of electromechanically active materials such as piezoelectric and electrostrictive ceramics and single crystals, and dielectric polymers. In particular his research group has helped to characterize the non-linear behaviour in these materials and his group’s measurements are now extensively used by the designers of electromechanical transducers in underwater sonar, medical imaging, smart aerospace structures and other applications. He has been a consultant to the US, UK, Australian and Canadian Navies and to transducer design groups world wide.