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. Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. 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 Theoretical Evidence of Nodal Line Semimetallic State in SmSbSe, Aarti Gautam, Haribrahma Singh, Pabitra Kumar Nayak, Prabuddha Kant Mishra, Rie Y. Umetsu, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, and A. K. Ganguli, J. Solid State Chemistry, 2026, 354.
Engineering Cation Vacancy Defects on LaNiO3 for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction, R. K. Kunchala, R. R. R. Ray, S. Mukherjee, and A. K. Ganguli, J. Solid State Chemistry, 2026, 353.
Multiscale charge-carrier dynamics governed by surface energetics in facet-engineered NaNbO₃/FeVO₄ photoanodes, N Garg, P K. Nayak, A. Kar, S. Kumar, D Ghosh, P K Chowdhury and A. K. Ganguli, Nanoscale, 2026, 18 (22) , 11908–11923.
Interplay of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy and Kondo Interaction in Square–Net Lattice CeZn₀.₆₅Sb₂, Haribrahma Singh; Aarti Gautam; Prabuddha Kant Mishra; Gaurav Kumar; Rie Umetsu and A. K. Ganguli, Inorg. Chem., 2026, 65 (29) , 16783–16794.
Unravelling Charge Carrier Dynamics in Bi₂MoO₆/CaFe₂O₄ Heterostructure for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Applications, A. Kar, S. Majumdar, P. K. Chowdhury and A. K. Ganguli, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2025, 129 (32).
ZIF-90–Decorated Silica Nanoparticles with a Spiky Surface: A Novel Approach to Drug Delivery, M. K. Sharma, D. Cheng, J. Qu, H. Song, A. K. Ganguli, C. Yu, and J. Tang, New J. Chem., 2024, 48 (13).
Na₃V₂(PO₄)₃/C in Symmetric Cells: Evaluating Anode and Cathode Performance, Haribrahma Singh; Aarti Gautam; Prabuddha Kant Mishra; Gaurav Kumar; Rie Umetsu and A. K. Ganguli, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2024, 128 (46).
Modulating Interfacial Properties in Pseudoternary Microemulsions via Urea Addition, I. Majumdar, A. K. Ganguli, Langmuir, 2024, 40 (32).
