Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dipak Ghosh received his PhD in the area of High Energy Physics and is a University Gold medalist in Physics, both in Graduation and Post-Graduation. He has published more than four hundred papers in international journals and Conference proceedings. Prof. Ghosh was the Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science, Head, Department of Physics Jadavpur University . He has the experience of working as Principal Investigator (from India) with prestigious research institutes like CERN (Switzerland) FermiLab (USA) in various international collaborative research programs. He has supervised over 75 PhD theses and is still continuing in doing so. From 2004, he started to work in the area of physics and music and established the Sir C .V. Raman Center for Physics and Music, in Jadavpur University. Prof Ghosh worked as the coordinator of the Center till his retirement in 2010, during which he has published more than hundred papers on music information retrieval and clinical psychology. Presently he is the Emeritus Professor at the Centre. His current area of interest is on the study of the effect of music on the human brain from the neuro-physics perspective and has authored 3 books on the same topic published from Springer Nature. Prof. Ghosh is the recipient of many awards including Sir C.V. Raman Award by U.G.C, Govt. of India, M.N. Saha Memorial Gold Medal by Asiatic Society and Tagore Scholarship by Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, for his in-depth research work in various disciplines. Apart from academic publications, Prof Ghosh has published several books on popular Science, one of which, Krishna Kana (The Dark Matter) was awarded with the Rabindra Smriti Puraskar by the Govt. of West Bengal in 2017.