Kankan Bhattacharyya
Department of Physical Chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Kankan Bhattacharyya studied in Presidency, Kolkata and Calcutta University. In 1978, he joined Mihir Chowdhury's laboratory at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata to work on nanosecond laser spectroscopy and studied nanosecond dynamics, two photon absorption and high-resolution spectroscopy in Spholskii matrix at low temperature to obtain his PhD degree (1984). He then joined Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, USA, to work with PK Das on nanosecond laser flash photolysis and photochemistry. In 1986, he moved to Columbia University to learn the novel surface second harmonic generation (SSHG) technique from KB Eisenthal. Bhattacharyya returned to India (1987) and joined IACS.
Research Interest
Physical Chemistry, Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy, Organized Assembly
