Dr. Soumen Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Soumen Ghosh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry in IISc Bangalore, India. He obtained B.Sc. in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira in 2009. He received M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur, working with Professor Pratik Sen for Master's thesis. In 2011, Soumen moved to Michigan State University, USA for a PhD in Chemistry. His PhD work in the laboratory of Professor Warren F. Beck focused on understanding the ultrafast dynamics of biological solar light-harvesting using heterodyned transient grating and 2D-electronic spectroscopy. Subsequently Soumen moved to Politecnico di Milano, Italy as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Professor Giulio Cerullo and Professor Dario Polli at the Department of Physics. As a Marie-Curie Fellow there, Soumen developed time-domain broadband circular dichroism spectroscopy to probe chiral and spin dynamics. Soumen joined IISc Bangalore as an Assistant Professor in November 2022. His research interests are currently focused on understanding ultrafast spin, magnetism and chiral dynamics in chemical, biological, and material systems.