Abhik Ghosh#
| Membership Number: | 6500 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://en.uit.no/project/softmatter |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1161-6364 |
| Twitter: | @abhikghosh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Professor of chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- 1996 - 2000 Associate Professor of chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- 1995 - 1996 Research Associate, University of California, Riverside, w/ Prof. David F. Bocian
- 1992 - 1995 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, w/ Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr.
Fields of Scholarship
- Macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry
- Theoretical inorganic chemistry
- Ab initio and DFT calculations
- Heavy element chemistry
- X-ray science
- Bioinorganic chemistry
- Corroles
- Porphyrins and porphyrin analogues
- Chemical education
- Photoelectron spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2022 Hans Fischer Career Award for Lifetime Achievement in Porphyrin Chemistry
- 2022 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (Brussels)
- 2022 Teaching Award of UiT’s Faculty of Science and Technology Student Association
- 2022 Elected Fellow of Academia Borealis, North-Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2021 UiT The Arctic University of Norway’s Research and Development Prize, “FoU-prisen”
- 2020 UiT The Arctic University of Norway’s Prize for Basic Research, “Grunnforskningsprisen”
- 2019 Christmas and Centenary Lecturer of the Finnish Chemical Society, Helsinki
- 2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
- 2015 Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) for Best Textbook in Physical Sciences and Mathematics published in 2014
- 2004 - 2010 Outstanding Younger Researcher Awardee of the Research Council of Norway
- 1997 - 2004 Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego
- 1987 University Medal for first rank in B. Sc. (Hons.) at Jadavpur University, India
