Professor Ashok Kumar Ganguli is the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur, Odisha, India. He is also a Honorary Professor at Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. Professor Ganguli was earlier the Institute Chair Professor and Deputy Director (Strategy & Planning) at IIT Delhi. He is 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 450 papers and has filed six patents (four granted). 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 the recipient of the Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year Award (MRSI), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Chemical Society and the Lifetime Achievement Award of IIT Delhi. 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 on the Editorial Board of Chem Physics Letts and Proc of Ind Chem Soc., ACS Mater Letts and Chem Phys. Letts.
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).
