Abhik Ghosh - Curriculum Vitae#
- ORCID Public CV: 0000-0003-1161-6364
- Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=hc3YyBIAAAAJ
- 1987 B. Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry, Jadavpur Univ., India; University Medal for top rank
- 1992 Ph. D., Univ. of Minnesota, w/ Prof. Paul G. Gassman; Thesis: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Ab Initio Computational Study of Substituent Effects in Tetrapyrroles
- 1992 - 1996 Postdoctoral positions (see section 1.12)
- 1996 - 2000 Associate Professor at UiT
- 1997 - 2004 Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Univ. California San Diego
- 2000 - present (Full) Professor at UiT
- 2004 - 2010 Outstanding Younger Researcher Awardee, Research Council of Norway
- 2006 - 2014 Visiting Professor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand; stays totaling 18 months
- 2007 - 2017 PI, Center for Theoretical & Computational Chemistry (national Center of Excellence)
- 2013 - 2018 Visiting Professor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, USA; stays totaling 6 months
- 2015 - present Major user at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
- 2017 - present Major user at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
- 2021 - present Member of the Board, Arctic Center for Sustainable Energy, UiT
- 2021 - 2025 Coordinator/Director, Center for Sustainable STEM Education (UiT’s flagship initiative in the area of science education)
- 2024 Current book project: Inorganic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)
- Research website: https://en.uit.no/project/softmatter
- Teaching website: https:/en.uit.no/project/susstemed
- Publications: > 275 peer-reviewed research publications, including > 95% as corresponding author
- >12,000 cites with an h-index = 64 (Google Scholar)
- Regular courses taught: Introductory inorganic chemistry; Bioinorganic chemistry
- Special topics courses: Advanced inorganic chemistry; stereochemistry; supramolecular chemistry; fluorine chemistry; medicinal inorganic chemistry, etc.
- Mentoring: 16 PhD students, 16 postdocs, 16 master’s students, & >50 undergraduate researchers
- Invited lectures: >100 plenary, keynote & invited lectures
- Scicomm: https://en.uit.no/project/softmatter/scicomm
- DEI initiatives: https://en.uit.no/project/susstemed/diversity-and-inclusion