Amit Das is a senior scientist in the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany and head of the Smart Rubbers group. He is also working in the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland as an adjunct professor. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in different peered reviewed journals. His current h-index is 25 according to ResearcherID (F-5709-2015). Not only the journal publications but also he is the author of several edited books and international patents.

Artificial muscle based on dielectric elastomers; mechano-adaptive elastomers; conducting elastomers, sensors and actuators based on functional elastomers, development of green rubber compounds, non-covalent crosslinking network of rubbers.