Debabrata Goswami is currently the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of
Chemistry, at IIT kanpur. He became Professor (Higher Administrative Grade) of
The Department of Chemistry, The Center for Lasers & Photonics, The Design Program, and The Center
of Cognitive Sciences at IIT Kanpur in 2017. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Prof.
Goswami attended Princeton University, USA with multiple scholarships for his
PhD (1994) where his thesis was Adjudged Excellent and won the HST fellowship.
This was followed by PDFs at Harvard University (1995) and Brookhaven
National Lab (1996). He was a Senior Scientist in the R&D Division of
Excel-Quantronix, New York (1997) and subsequently the Director of Laser
Laboratories at the Center for Laser Technology, Princeton University (1998). He
returned to India at the end of 1998, to join the Physics Faculty of TIFR
Mumbai. In 2004, he joined IIT Kanpur to also focus on pedagogy. Over the years,
he has also been invited to several reputed Institutes worldwide as a visiting
Professor. His research work spans across several interdisciplinary frontiers of
science and engineering. Specifically, he is an ultrafast laser spectroscopist
who has pioneered the use of coherent control with femtosecond pulse shaping in
spatiotemporal control, quantum computing, microscopy, etc. He has received
several academic & research accolades, some of which are the Hoechst Advanced
Technology Division Industrial Affiliates Fellowship for outstanding academic
record in Princeton, the International Senior Research Fellowship award of the
Wellcome Trust (UK), the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science
and Technology (Govt. of India), Thathachary Science Award (India). He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics, the Optical
Society of America, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
(SPIE). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is on the board as a life member for
several affiliate Indian societies. He has published over two hundred research
articles, several book chapters, edited conference proceedings and books. He is
on the Editorial Board of several journals including PeerJ and has been the Editor-in-charge of
Journal of Spectroscopy and Dynamics. He is an ardent supporter of Science Education and is a
popular K12 teacher on Indian television. He is a faculty of the Fab-academy,
which champions the worldwide spread of hands-on Fab-lab education.
