Biography
Professor Ashok Kumar Ganguli is the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur, Odisha, India. Professor Ganguli is currently holding the Prof N K Jha Chair in the Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and was earlier Institute Chair Professor (2019-21). He is also a Joint Professor in the Dept. of Materials Science & Engg and Deputy Director (Strategy & Planning) at IIT Delhi. He is also the founding Director of the Institute of Nano Science and Technology in Mohali (Jan 2013- Jan 2018). Prof. Ganguli obtained his PhD degree from the Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU) of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1990 in the area of Thallium based high-temperature superconductors for which he got the Sudborough Medal of the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a visiting scientist at Dupont Company, USA (1990-91) and a postdoctoral associate and visiting scientist at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA (1991-93 and 2004-05) and visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne in 2016.
His areas of interest are in the design of nanostructured materials for applications in water purification, solar energy conversion and microfluidic devices and also high-temperature superconductivity. He has published over 320 papers and has filed five patents. He has successfully completed several research projects, including some with industries. He is a recipient of the National Award of Nano Science and Nanotechnology given by DST, Government of India, the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Silver Medal, the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal, the C.N.R. Rao-CRSI National Award, Chemical Excellence Award by Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists and the Bangalore India Nano award given by Karnataka Govt. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Asia–Pacific Association of Materials. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Material Science and a Member of, the Editorial Board, of J. Ind. chem. Soc., ACS Mater Letts and Chem Phys. Letts.
Dr. Ganguli is also a very keen speaker for science education in schools and colleges and initiated an Outreach program at INST, Mohali for rural school students in remote parts of India in which he has visited more than 300 schools and in the last three and half years he created several programs especially for ST-students and involved large number of students from J&K to Kerala and from Manipur to Rajasthan. Apart from the above he is a key speaker in Inspire series of lectures (DST) and is also helping promote research awareness in colleges through science academies workshops.
Key Publications
Experimental and first-principles studies on supoerconductivity in nanocentrosymmertric La3Se4, M. Naskar, S, Ash, D P Panda, C K Vishwakarma, B K Mani, A Sundaresan, and A. K. Ganguli, Phys. Rev. B., 2022, 105: 014513.
Effect of Mn2+ incorporation on photoelectrochemical properties of BiVO4, P. Dagar, S. Kumar, and A. K. Ganguli, New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 2875.
NaBiF4: Yb3+,Tm3+ nanoparticles as luminescent probes for in vitro imaging of cells, Manisha Bungla, Shruti Chowdhari, Mohd Shanu, Pragya Pragya, Vivekanandan Perumal, G. Vijaya Prakash and A. K. Ganguli, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 6131.
Convergent Science with Laser Raman Spectroscopy for Biophotonics, S. Sidhanta, A. M. Pliss, A. Baev, S K Khare, P K Chowdhury, A N Kuzmin, A. K. Ganguli and Paras N Prasad, Adv. Opt. Photonics, 2023, 15, 318.
Photoluminescence and lifetime studies of C-dot decorated CdS/ZnFe2O4 composite for photoelectrochemical applications, A. Kar, P. Dagar, S. Kumar, Ib Singh Deo, G. Vijaya Prakash and A. K. Ganguli, J. Photochem Photobiol. A: Chemistry, 439, 114612 (2023).