Abhik Ghosh - Curriculum Vitae#

• ORCID Public CV: 0000-0003-1161-6364
  
• Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=hc3YyBIAAAAJ
  
• 1987 B. Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry, Jadavpur Univ., India; University Medal for top rank
  
• 1992 Ph. D., Univ. of Minnesota, w/ Prof. Paul G. Gassman; Thesis: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Ab Initio Computational Study of Substituent Effects in Tetrapyrroles
  
• 1992 - 1996 Postdoctoral positions (see section 1.12)
  
• 1996 - 2000 Associate Professor at UiT
  
• 1997 - 2004 Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Univ. California San Diego
  
• 2000 - present (Full) Professor at UiT
  
• 2004 - 2010 Outstanding Younger Researcher Awardee, Research Council of Norway
  
• 2006 - 2014 Visiting Professor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand; stays totaling 18 months
  
• 2007 - 2017 PI, Center for Theoretical & Computational Chemistry (national Center of Excellence)
  
• 2013 - 2018 Visiting Professor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR, USA; stays totaling 6 months
  
• 2015 - present Major user at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  
• 2017 - present Major user at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
  
• 2021 - present Member of the Board, Arctic Center for Sustainable Energy, UiT
  
• 2021 - 2025 Coordinator/Director, Center for Sustainable STEM Education (UiT’s flagship initiative in the area of science education)
  
• 2024 Current book project: Inorganic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)
  
• Research website: https://en.uit.no/project/softmatter
  
• Teaching website: https:/en.uit.no/project/susstemed
  
• Publications: > 275 peer-reviewed research publications, including > 95% as corresponding author
  
• >12,000 cites with an h-index = 64 (Google Scholar)
  
• Regular courses taught: Introductory inorganic chemistry; Bioinorganic chemistry
  
• Special topics courses: Advanced inorganic chemistry; stereochemistry; supramolecular chemistry; fluorine chemistry; medicinal inorganic chemistry, etc.
  
• Mentoring: 16 PhD students, 16 postdocs, 16 master’s students, & >50 undergraduate researchers
  
• Invited lectures: >100 plenary, keynote & invited lectures
  
• Scicomm: https://en.uit.no/project/softmatter/scicomm
  
• DEI initiatives: https://en.uit.no/project/susstemed/diversity-and-inclusion