Prof. P. Ghosh

Dr. Prasenjit Ghosh is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India.He received his PhD in bioinorganic chemistry under the supervision of Professor Gerard Parkin from Columbia University, New York, in 1998. Following two post-doctoral stints in the laboratories of Dr. R. Morris Bullock(Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1998–2001) and Professor Guillermo C. Bazan (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001–2003), he joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Bombay as an Assistant Professor in 2003 and was finally promoted to Professor in June, 2012. He received the CRSI Bronze Medal (2014) of the Chemical Research Society of India and The Distinguished Lectureship Award (2011) of the Chemical Society of Japan among many others in the recent years. He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the ACS journal Organometallics from 2017 for a three-year period and of Polyhedron since 2011. His current research focuses on the synthesis and application-oriented studies of transition metal complexes of the N/O-functionalized N-heterocyclic carbene ligands with particular emphasis on C–X (X = C, N) bond forming reactions and biomedical applications. Apart from N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry,his other research interests are in the areas of enzyme active-site modeling and transition-metal-catalyzed selective oxidation reactions.