Welcome To
Ghosh Research Group
About Me
Tapas was born and raised in Ranaghat, Nadia, West Bengal, India. He obtained his Masters degree in Chemistry (2008) from the University of Kalyani, West Bengal. In 2008, he qualified the NET (CSIR-UGC) and enrolled for his Ph.D. in the group of Professor K. C. Majumdar in the University of Kalyani, India. In 2014, he was awarded TÜBITAK postdoctoral fellowship from Govt. of Turkey and worked at Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey in the group of Professor Levent Artok. He then moved to the Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan for his next postdoctoral research stay with Professor Okiko Miyata Group (2014-2015). In 2015, he joined the research group of Professor Matthias Lehmann in University of Würzburg, Germany with prestigious Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship. Returning back to India, he joined Sree Chaitanya College, Habra, West Bengal as an Assistant professor in 2017. In 2018, he joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal, India. Since, August 2022, he has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry Section), Jadavpur University. Dr. Ghosh has more than 45 international publications in reputed journals. His research interest includes the development of new synthetic methodologies to design and synthesis of small drug molecules of biological relevance along with the application of advanced Liquid Crystalline materials in Organic Photovoltaic (OPV). 
Dr. Tapas Ghosh
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry Section),
Jadavpur University
Kolkata-700 032, W.B., INDIA
Email: tapasghosh.chem@gmail.com
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ph.D. / Synthetic Organic Chemistry, (Advisor – Professor K. C. Majumdar), Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, W.B., India.​
M.Sc. (Chemistry) (Organic Specialization), Department of Chemistry, University of Kalyani, W.B., India
B.Sc. (Chemistry) (Honours), Chakdaha College, (University of Kalyani), W.B., India.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
HONOUR AND AWARDS
-
2024: TARE Fellowship from SERB, India.
-
2015: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
-
2015: Marie-Skłodowska-Curie actions Postdoctoral fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014).
-
2015: BELSPO Postdoctoral fellowship, Belgium.
-
2014: Postdoctoral fellowship by Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
-
2013: TÜBITAK Postdoctoral fellowship, Turkey.
-
2013: Research Associateship (RA), CSIR, New Delhi, India.
-
2010: Senior Research fellowship (SRF), CSIR, New Delhi, India.
-
2008: Junior Research fellowship (JRF), CSIR, New Delhi, India
-
2022 – Present: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry Section), Jadavpur University, West Bengal.
-
2018 – 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry (Erstwhile Department of Natural Sciences), M.A.K.A.U.T., West Bengal.
-
2017 – 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sree Chaitanya College, Habra, West Bengal.
-
2015 – 2017: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
-
2014 – 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan.
-
2014 – 2014(November): TÜBITAK Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey.