Professor Ashok Kumar Ganguli is the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur, Odisha, India. Professor Ganguli was 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 was also a Joint Professor in the Dept. of Materials Science & Engg 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). He is the Fellow of Indian National Science Academy and also Honorary Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.
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 350 papers and has filed five patents (two 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 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).
