NAME: Dr. Tilak Kumar Ghosh
NATIONALITY: Indian
PRESSENT OCCUPATION:
# "Scientific Officer (H) " ( ~ Staff Scientist), Experimental Physics Group, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
# Dean (Students' Affairs) VECC- Homi Bhabha National Institute
EDUCATION:
# PhD. (1999-2005): Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, INDIA
(Degree awarded by Jadavpur University, Kolkata in March, 2006)
# Post M Sc. (1998-1999): Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, INDIA
# Master of Science (1995-1997): University of Burdwan, Burdwan, INDIA
# Post Graduate Certificate Programme in General Management (2021-22) : Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, India
PhD THESIS:
"Study of heavy ion induced fission fragment angular and mass distribution at near and sub-coulomb barrier energies". (download)
(Adjudged the "Best thesis presentation award" by the Indian Physics Association in the 50th year of the DAE symposium on Nuclear Physics held at BARC, Mumbai)
AWARDS/OTHER RECOGNITIONS RECEIVED:
# 1998: Qualified National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET) for Lectureship
# 2005: Best thesis award by the Indian Physics Association
# 2006: K.S. Krishnan Award by the Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt of India
# 2008: Young Scientist Award by the Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt of India
# 2009: Indo-US Science and Technology Forum Research Fellowship Award
# 2014: Member, DAE Group Achievement Award (for the development of gas based detector)
# 2017: Scientific and Technical Excellence Award 2016
PROFFESIONAL PREPARATION:
# Junior Research Fellow: (1999-2002) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
# Senior Research Fellow: (2002-2006) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
(Thesis Advisor: Prof. Pratap Bhattacharya)
# K.S. Krishnan Reasearch Associate : (2006-2007) Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata.
(Post doc Mentor: Dr. Saila Bhattacharya)
# Scientific Officer : (2007- till date) Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India.
# Visiting Scientist (IUSSTF Fellow): (2009-2010) National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, Michigan State University, USA.
(Host: Prof. Betty Tsang)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
# Heavy ion induced fission studies at near barrier energies
# Nuclear reaction and dynamics studies with intermediate energy beam
# Instrumentation and detector development
TEACHING:
# Lecturer : HBNI pre-doc (PhD) course work (2012-26) for VECC students. Lecture Notes
# Lecturer : IUAC School on Nuclear Reactions . 3 lectures on Heavy Ion Induced Fission Lecture Notes
# Lecturer in the SERC School (2008) on “Exploring symmetries in nuclei using the National accelerator facilities” held at IUAC, New Delhi: Click for the lecture slides.
SUPERVISION:
# PhD Supervision: Completed PhD: 4, continuing : 2
# Post doc Supervision: 2
# Served as Chairperson/Member of 35 Doctoral Committees at leading research institutions including BARC, SINP, and VECC.
# No. of Publication (Peer reviewed Journals): 93
OTHER PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE:
# Referee of papers submitted to journals:
Physical Review C, European Physical Journal A, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A , Physica Scripta, Scientific Reports (Nature) , Pramana , Journal of Radio-analytical and Nuclear Chemistry (Springer)
# Project Reviewer:
- ANRF Proposals
- DAE BRNS proposals
- Collaborative Research Scheme (CRS) proposals of UGC DAE CSR
# Reviewer of PhD theses : INFN-Italy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Benaras Hindu University, Baroda University, Calicut University, Central University of Kerala, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology etc.
# Academic administration:
Dean of Students' Affairs, VECC
Convenor of Student Grievance Redressal Committee, VECC
Convenor of VECC Anti-ragging Committee
Chairman of VECC-HBNI Placement Cell for students
Worked as a Member of several academic committees:
- Standing Committee of Deans (SCD), Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai
- Ad-hoc Faculty Council of UG Studies in Science, Murshidabad University, West Bengal
- Standing Academic Committee (SAC), VECC
- Standing Selection Committee (SSC) of Research fellows and Post docs, VECC
- VECC Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
- VECC Library Committee
- VECC Information Security Committee
Worked as a Member of committees related to the operation of national facilities
- VECC Cyclotron Local User Committee
- National Level FRENA User Committee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
- User Committee, UGC-DAE-CSR, Kolkata Centre
School coordinator, Summer School on Nuclear Fission and Related Phenomena held at VECC to celebrate the 75th Year of the discovery of Nuclear fission.
Scientific Secretary, 6th Asian Nuclear Physics Association Symposium
Member of the advisory committees of several Conferences/Workshops
# Public Outreach Activities
- Worked as the Social Media Coordinator at VECC