Curriculum Vitae

Name: Debashis Mukherjee

Date of birth: 17th December, 1946

Current work address: S N Bose Chair Professor

S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

Salt Lake

Kolkata 700-106

Telephone number: +(91) 93310 19518 (M)

Email: pcdemu@gmail.com , pcdm@iacs.res.in


Education:


PhD in Chemistry from University of Calcutta (1972).

MSc in Chemistry from University of Calcutta (1967).

BSc with Honours in Chemistry from Presidency College, Kolkata (1965).


Positions held:


  • Lecturer in Chemistry in IIT Mumbai (1975-77).

  • Reader in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (1978-84).

  • Professor in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (1985-1998).

  • Director of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (1999-2008).

  • Chair Professor of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2008-2010).

  • Emeritus Chair Professor of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2011-2018).

  • S N Bose Chair Professor, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (2019-).


Research interests:


Formulation and Applications of non-relativistic and relativistic coupled-cluster and allied non-perturbative many-body theories applied to atoms and molecules, theoretical precision spectroscopy, development of finite temperature non-perturbative many-body theories such as cluster-cumulant theories.


Teaching experience:


Taught Advanced Theoretical Chemistry Courses in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, Integrated PhD and Masters courses in IIT Mumbai, Masters Courses in Presidency College, Kolkata and in a large number of International Workshops in Theoretical Chemistry and Many-Body theory.


Supervision of graduate and post doctoral students:


PhD students:


Prof. Sourav Pal.

Prof. M. Durgaprasad.

Prof. Kamal Bhattacharya.

Dr. M. A. Haque.

Prof. Somnath Ghosh.

Prof. Dhiman Sinha.

Dr. Rajat Chaudhuri.

Dr. Saroj Mukhopadhyay.

Prof. Debasis Mukhopadhyay.

Prof. Uttam Sinha Mahapatra

Prof. Sudip Chatopadhyay.

Prof. Debashis Jana.

Prof. Ratin Ghosh.

Prof. Hannan Mandal.

Dr. Gautam Sanyal.

Dr. Dipayan Dutta.

Dr. Sanghamitra Das.

Dr. Avijit Sen

Dr. Rahul Maitra.

Dr. Debalina Sinha.

Dr. Sangita Sen.

Dr. Avijit Shee.


Post-doctoral students:


Prof. Seiichiro Ten-no, Kobe University, Kobe.

Prof. Holger Merlitz, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden.

Dr. Barnali Dutta.

Dr. Sumita Sengupta.

Dr. Krishna Das.


A selection of awards and honors:


  • Gold Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India, the Lifetime Achievement, Award, 2019.

  • SERB Distinguished Fellow, 2015.

  • Senior Medal of Distinction of the Centre of Applied Wave Mechanics (CMOA, France), 2015.

  • Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany, 2010.

  • Fukui Medal of the Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC), 2008.

  • J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology, 2007.

  • Charles Coulson Memorial Lecture Award, Centre for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, 2007.

  • Kapuy Memorial Lecture Award, Eotvos University, Budapest, 2005.

  • Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture Award, Indian National Science Academy, 2005.

  • Jagadish Shankar Memorial Award in Chemistry of the Indian National Science Academy, 1994.

  • Senior JSPS Visiting Professor, 1992.

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, 1988.

  • Humboldt Fellow, 1985.

  • Asutosh Mukherjee Medal, Presidency College, 1964.


Fellowship/Membership of learned bodies:

  • Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Chemical Physics(Elsevier),2008- .

  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, of India, Allahabad, 2006.

  • Fellow, The Asian-Pacific Consortium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 2008.

  • Fellow, The World Academy of Science (TWAS), 2001.

  • Member, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, 1997.

  • Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 1991.

  • Past Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (Springer - Verlag), 1989-92.

  • Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1987.

  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet, Government of India, 2008-2011.

  • Past Member, Sectional Committees for Chemistry of Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy

  • Past Member of Advisory Bodies of several learned institutions of India, including past membership of the SERC, DST( PAC), Council Member of other DST-funded Institutes and of the various Advisory Bodies of CSIR .


Membership of the Board of Directors:

  • Honorary Board Member, Quantum International Frontiers, Asia-Pacific Region, 2018- .

  • Member, Board of Directors, International Society of Theoretical Chemical Physics, 2013- .

  • Board Member, The Asian-Pacific Consortium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry,2004- .


Professorships:


  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay, 2017-2020, 2021- .

  • Visiting Professor, University of Bochum, Germany, as a Humboldt Prize Awardee, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018.

  • Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University, 2008.

  • Past Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.

  • Honorary Professor, Department of Chemistry, Beijing University, 2004-2007.

  • Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, 2001.

  • Honorary Professor of the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, 1994-98.

  • Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 1992.

  • Visiting Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, 1980-81.


Publications:


More than 230 papers, and 2 edited volumes.


Selected Plenary and Invited talks and lectures (from about 170 of them):


  • Plenary Lecture, Conference on Strongly Correlated Electrons, Qingdao, China, 2019.

  • Invited Lecture, APCTCC-9, Sydney, Australia, 2019.

  • Inaugural lecture, Computation and understanding in quantum molecular sciences, Toulouse, France, 2019.

  • Keynote lecture, 22nd International Symposium on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, Changsha, China, 2017.

  • Plenary lecture, APCTCC-8, Mumbai, India, 2017.

  • Inaugural lecture, 15th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Hyderabad, India, 2016.

  • Plenary lecture, ISTCP-IX, Grand Forks, USA, 2016.

  • Invited lecture, Open shells, open questions, Denmark, 2015.

  • Invited lecture, Recent Advances in Electronic Structure Theory, Nanjing, 2015.

  • Invited lecture, International Conference on Valence Bond Theory, Xiamen, 2015.

  • Invited talk, QSCP, Taiwan, 2014.

  • A colloquium on ' Recent developments in multi-reference many-body methods' delivered in Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of UPMC Sorbonne University, Paris, 2014.

  • A series of lectures on 'Development of new field theoretical methods for non-perturbative many body theory' delivered in Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of UPMC Sorbonne university, Paris, 2014.

  • Invited lecture in the VIII th Congress of the International Society of Theoretical Chemical Physics, Budapest, Hungary, 2013.

  • Evening lecture at the Magnus-Haus Berlin of the German Physical Society, Germany, 2012.

  • Invited lecture in the Conference 'Theory and Application of Computational Chemistry', Pavia, Italy, 2012.

  • Colloquium talk in Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Oslo, Norway, 2012.

  • Invited lecture in ICQC Satellite 'Coupled Cluster Theory and Related Techniques', Boulder, USA, 2012.

  • Prof. MacBain Memorial Endowment Lecture in National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 2011.

  • Plenary Lecture in the Seventh Congress of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics (ISTCP-VII), Waseda University, Japan, 2011.

  • Evening talk in German Chemical Society, 2011.

  • Invited talk in 14th European Symposium on Gas Phase Electron Diffraction, Moscow, Russia, 2011.

  • Invited talk in the 15th Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, Cambridge, UK, 2010.

  • Invited talk in the 2010 Symposium on Relativistic Theory of Heavy Elements (REHE) , Beijing, 2010.

  • Plenary Talk: Fukui Memorial Medal Lecture in the Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Port Dickson, Malaysia, 2009.

  • Plenary talk: European Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Dobogoke, Hungary, 2009.

  • Invited Lecture: Workshop on range-separated hybrids (RSH), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2008.

  • Plenary Lecture, 10th National Conference on Quantum Chemistry, Nanjing University, China, 2008.

  • Invited talk: Workshop on Nuclei and Mesoscopic Physics, Michigan State University, 2007.

  • Invited Lecture: Symposium in honor of Professor Wilfried Meyer, University of Kaiserslautern, 2007.

  • Invited Lecture: 47th Sanibel Symposium, St Simons Island, Georgia, 2007.

  • Invited Lecture, International Conference honoring Professor Peter Pulay, Budapest, Hungary, 2007.

  • Charles Coulson Memorial Lecture, Centre for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, 2007.

  • Invited Lecture, International Conference on Many Body Theory, Mesoscopic Theory Centre, Michigan State University, USA, 2007.

  • Colloquium Lecture, Computational Materials Seminar, Cornell University, USA, 2007.

  • Invited Lecture, National Symposium on Electronic Structure and Properties of Atoms and Molecules, School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, 2008.

  • Invited lecture: XIth European Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics (QSCP-11), St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006.

  • Invited Talk: WATOC, Cape Town, South Africa, 2005.

  • Invited talk: 40th IUPAC Congress, Beijing, China, August, 2005.

  • Keynote Address: XVth National Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, PRL, Ahmedabad, 2004.

  • Plenary talk:Theoretical Chemistry Session, Physical Chemistry Division, ACS Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, 2004.

  • Kapuy Memorial Lecture, Eötvos University, Budapest, 2004.

  • Shing-Da Endowment Lecture, Beijing University, 2003.

  • INSA Special Lecture on “Aspects of Reductionism in Chemistry”, 2003.

  • Plenary Talk, European Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Meeting, Barcelona, July, 2002.

  • Invited talk : The 125th Anniversary Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Symposium on Accurate Description of Low-Lying Electronic States, San Diego, CA, 2001.

  • Invited talk : The Xth International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Menton, France, 2000.

  • Plenary talk and Concluding remarks : The Millennium Meeting on Theoretical Chemistry, Okazaki, Japan, 1999.

  • Jagdish Shankar INSA Endowment Lecture, 1994.

  • Plenary Talk : Nagoya Symposium on Reaction Theory, Nagoya, Japan, 1993.

  • Plenary Lecture and Summary Talk: Harvard Conference on Coupled Cluster Theory at the Interface of Chemistry and Physics, Harvard, 1990.