Group Members

Debabrata Goswami

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Center for Lasers and Photonics, IIT Kanpur

Present Positions

• Professor (HAG), Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
• Faculty, Center for Lasers and Photonics (CELP), IIT Kanpur
• Visiting Professor, Center for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (since October 2025), as a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow

Previous Positions

• Dr. S. Sampath Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur (2018–2021)
• Faculty, Department of Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (1998–2004)
• Director of Laser Laboratories, Center for Laser Technology, Princeton University (1998)
• Senior Scientist, R&D Division, Excel-Quantronix, New York (1997)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory (1996) and Harvard University (1995)

Education

• Ph.D., Princeton University, USA (1994)
  • Advisor: Prof. Warren S. Warren
  • Thesis: Control of Chemical Dynamics using Arbitrary Shaped Optical Pulses and Laser Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy
• M.A., Physical Chemistry, Princeton University, USA (1990)
• M.S., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1988)
  • Advisor: Prof. S.K. Dogra
  • Thesis: Fluorescence Quenching of Aromatic Amino Compounds by Chloromethanes
• B.Sc. (Hons) Jadavpur University, Calcutta First Class Honors in Chemistry with Distinction in Physics and Mathematics (1986)