Dr. Soumen Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Dr. Soumen Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
He completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira and his M.Sc. at IIT Kanpur, where he worked with
Professor Pratik Sen.
He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University under
Professor Warren F. Beck,
focusing on ultrafast spectroscopy of biological light-harvesting systems.
As a postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at Politecnico di Milano, he worked with
Professor Giulio Cerullo and
Professor Dario Polli
on broadband circular dichroism spectroscopy.
Since joining IISc, his research has focused on investigating ultrafast chiroptical and magneto-optical dynamics in chemical, biological, and material systems.
Education & Training
Postdoc
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ph.D.
Michigan State University, USA
M.Sc.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
B.Sc.
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah, West Bengal
Awards and Recognitions
2024
Early Career Editorial Board Member, Inorganic Chemistry Communications
2023
Editorial Board Member, Optics & Photonics, Frontiers in Physics
2019
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission
2017
Alfred J. & Ruth Zeits Fellowship, Michigan State University.
2017
Gerald T. Babcock Endowed Scholarship, Michigan State University.
2014
Division of Chemical Physics Travel Grant, American Physical Society.
2010
Summer Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
2010
Merit cum Means Scholarship, IIT Kanpur
2008
Sw. Vireswarananda & Sw. Vimuktananda Memorial Prize, R.K.M Vidyamandira.
Invited Talks
July 2025
Interdisciplinary Horizons of Physical Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata.
February 2025
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters, Mussoorie
November 2024
Ultrafast Sciences (UFS-2024), NISER Bhubaneswar
July 2024
Advances in Chemical Sciences, R.K.M Vidyamandira, Howrah
January 2024
NaMoSBio Conference, IISER Kolkata, India
December 2023
60-th Annual Convention of Chemists, IIT Delhi, India.
September 2023
National Institute for Materials Science,Tsukuba, Japan.
August 2023
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India
February 2023
Let There Be Light Meeting, Nagpur, India.
March 2022
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
February 2022
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
January 2022
Photonics West Conference, San Francisco, California, USA.
December 2021
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala.
August 2020
Bankura University, Bankura, West Bengal.
January 2016
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah.