Dr. Shirsendu Ghosh did his graduation from Jadavpur University with honors in Chemistry (2009). Then he obtained his master’s degree in Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur (2011). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata in 2016. After a Postdoctoral stint at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2016-2021) he joined as a research associate at Cornell University, USA (2021-2022). After that, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry, GITAM Hyderabad for two years (2022-2024). Then he joined as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry with a joint affiliation in the Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering at IIT Jammu on December 2024. His area of research revolves around the development and use of new optical spectroscopy and microscopy techniques to decipher the dynamics of biological systems and live cells. More specifically, he developed total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy-based super-resolution microscopic techniques to investigate the role of plasma membrane topography in cancer biology and immunology (such as T-cell signaling pathways and Mast cell signaling pathways). He is also interested in deciphering the consequences of long-range charge reorganization within a protein on the allosteric signaling of proteins which may lead to the development of a pathway to control allosteric signaling. He employs single-molecule fluorescence microscopy and time-resolved confocal microscopy techniques to decipher the changes in polarity, viscosity, and dynamics of different regions of biomolecules (such as proteins, DNA, lipid vesicles, etc.) and live cells. He is also interested in the development of low-cost protein-coated copper nanoclusters for drug delivery and ion sensing. He is the recipient of the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship (SERB), DST-inspired faculty fellowship, Koshland Prize (Koshland Foundation, Israel), and CSIR-Research Fellowship.