Barindra Kumar Ghosh

Biography

He joined in university as Lecturer in Chemistry in 1990; actively engaged in teaching and research; acted as HOD (Chemistry) during 2006 (September) - 2008 (August); thirteen students awarded Ph.D. degree; three students submitted Ph. D thesis and involving in further research, three more students working as SRF and RA (b)Present designation including date of effect: Professor of Chemistry, September 01, 2003 - onwards (c) Academic qualifications: i) B.Sc. : Chemistry (Hons), 1977, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal ii) M.Sc. : Chemistry (Inorganic special), 1979, Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal iii) Ph.D.: Subject: Inorganic and coordination chemistry Working Institution: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032 Degree awarded from: Jadavpur University, Kolkatta 700 032 Year of award: 1986 Thesis Title: Aspects of ruthenium and osmium chemistry Thesis Supervisor: Prof. A. Chakravorty, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700 032 iv) Post-doctoral work: a) In India: 1986-89; as a Research Associate in the School of Prof. A. Chakravorty, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700 032 2 Topic of Research: Synthesis, structure and redox behaviour of ruthenium and osmium complexes containing redox-active ligands b) In Abroad: January 1994 to December 1994; as a post-doctoral fellow of Spanish Government in the Departament de Inorganica Chimica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain under Prof. Joan Ribas, Head of the Magnetochemistry Group Topic of Research: Magneto-structural correlations in polynuclear transition metal complexes. Relevance to magnetic materials iv) Post-graduate teaching and research activity at present address: a) Teaching: 1990-95 (as Lecturer), 1995-2003 (as Reader), 2003- onwards (as Professor) in the Department of Chemistry, the University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104 Topic of Teaching: Synthetic methodology; chemistry of elements: synthesis, structure, magnetism, redox activity, catalysis; applications of spectroscopic techniques in inorganic and coordination chemistry for elucidation of geometric structure, electronic structure, stereochemistry, bonding and reaction pathway; inorganic functional materials, structureproperty relationship

Research Interest

Inorganic and coordination chemistry of transition/non-transition metal complexes: design and synthesis, spectra, magnetism, redox behaviour, structure, and structure-property relationship of coordination molecules and supramolecular entities.