Abhik Ghosh

Dr. Abhik Ghosh, an Indian national, is a professor of chemistry at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.

Early life and education

Dr. Ghosh obtained his B. Sc. (Honours) in chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He did his PhD under the supervision of Regents Professor Paul Gassman at the University of Minnesota in 1992.

Career

After brief stints in Minnesota and California, he moved to Tromsø, Norway, in 1996, where he has remained ever since. He has had several secondary positions/affiliations: Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego (1997-2004), Outstanding Younger Researcher awardee of the Research Council of Norway (2004-2010), a co-principal investigator at the national center of excellence Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (2007-2017), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, on many occasions (2006-2016).[1][2] He edited two books, The Smallest Biomolecules: Diatomics and their Interactions with Heme Proteins (Elsevier, 2008), a monograph on the subject, and Letters to a Young Chemist (Wiley, 2011), a popular science book on careers in chemistry research.[1][3][4][5] In 2014, he cowrote Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main Group Elements (Wiley), the first textbook to apply arrow pushing to inorganic chemistry. He has served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (1999–2001, 2005–2007) and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (2000–) and Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2007–present). As of 2017, he has authored/coauthored approximately 200 scientific papers and has an h-index of approximately 50.

Research

Dr. Ghosh has contributed to many areas of porphyrin-related research and most recently has developed the area of 5d metallocorroles.

References

  1. 1 2 Brian Halton. "Book Review: Letters to a Young Chemist". Chemistry in New Zealand, July 2011, page 158.
  2. ↑ "SDSC Research: Understanding the Colors of Life: A Norway-California Collaboration". EnVision. Vol. 15 no. 1. San Diego Supercomputer Center. January–March 1999.
  3. ↑ "What's it like to be a chemist?". Royal Society of Chemistry Website. review by Simon Cotton
  4. ↑ "Chemical counselling". Katherine Haxton Nature Chemistry, 3, 905 (2011)
  5. ↑ Flynn, Sarai; Harris, Markel; Montes, Luis D. (August 2012). "Review of Letters to a Young Chemist". Journal of Chemical Education. American Chemical Society. 89 (8): 973–974. Bibcode:2012JChEd..89..973F. doi:10.1021/ed3003397.

Further reading

  • Buntrock, R. E. (January 2012). "Review: Letters to a Young Chemist". Choice. p. 913.
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