NAME: Dr. Tilak Kumar Ghosh
NATIONALITY: Indian
PRESSENT OCCUPATION:
# "Scientific Officer (G) " ( ~ Staff Scientist), 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 Jadavapur 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 in-stitutions 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)
# Co-convener, Awareness workshop on "Research opportunities using the facilities using beam at VECC, DAE, Kolkata" held at SSSIHL, Prashanti Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2013. [jointly organised with UGC-DAE-CSR-KC]
# Scientific Secretary, 6th Asian Nuclear Physics Association Symposium, held at VECC, Kolkata, India, 2014.
# School coordinator, Summer School on Nuclear Fission and Related Phenomena held at VECC, Kolkata, India, 2014.