Rupamanjari Ghosh

Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh is a researcher, teacher, orator and an academic administrator par excellence. Professor Ghosh has B.Sc.(Physics honors) and M.Sc.(Physics) degrees from the University of Calcutta renowned campus - Rajabazar Science College, and a very well-recognized Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester, NY in Quantum Optics where she worked as a Rush Rhees Fellow, chosen for "outstanding scholarly ability and the promise of exceptional contributions to scholarship and teaching." [3] Her research interests are in Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Information. Her pioneering work with Prof Leonard Mandel on two-photon interference (using the nonlinear optical process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion) has yielded a new direction in quantum optics and quantum information, in the creation and use of a source of entangled photon pairs, and of single photons, at the forefront of research.[4][5] After her Ph.D., she returned to India and joined the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she held many important academic and administrative positions over a span of 24 years. She has also held several Visiting Positions on invitation at Université Paris-Sud, Universite de Rennes I and École Normale Supérieure among others.

Professor Ghosh is a former Dean, School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has held several Visiting Faculty / Scientist positions on invitation abroad, and delivered numerous invited research seminars in India and abroad. Recipient of the Stree Shakti Science Samman for her "original contribution to Science",[6] she serves as an expert in crucial DST (Government of India) committees in Physical Sciences, and in many Central and State universities and institutes. She has also served as the Chief Advisor for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Science textbooks for Classes IX and X, developed afresh under the National Curriculum Framework-2005.

Besides her contribution to science research and training from the university to the school level, she is also well known for her stand and efforts to bring in gender justice and environment consciousness in the higher education system.

She joined the Shiv Nadar University in 2012 as the Founding Director of the School of Natural Sciences. Over the years, she has shaped the vision and mission of the School, which has started drawing attention of the world community in this very short period of time. She also took charge as the Dean of Research & Graduate Studies, the Head of the Faculty Development Center, and later, as the Director of the School of Engineering. She became the Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University in early 2016.

Ghosh was awarded the Streeshakti Science Samman[7] in 2008.