Avishek Ghosh

About

Physical Chemist and Molecular Spectroscopist by profession. Research Interests: Application of Nonlinear Optics and Nonlinear Spectroscopy to characterize and investigate in-situ for molecular mechanisms in heterogeneous catalytic systems, energy transfer and coherence transport processes and mechanisms in light harvesting materials and hydrogen-bond structural dynamics in various condensed matter systems. Specialized in Ultrafast (Time-resolved) Spectroscopy in UV-Visible, IR, THz, Raman, Sum Frequency Generation and Second Harmonic Generation.

My previous employers have been: AMOLF Amsterdam (2005-2009 PhD research), Leiden University (2005-2009 PhD research), Fritz Haber Institute der MaxPlanck Gesellschaft in Berlin (2010-2011, Postdoc), ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company in NJ USA (2011-2013, Member of Technical Staff).

Employment

• Microsoft (Finland) Senior Optical Engineer
  2020 - Present
• Applied Materials Inc Senior Technologist
  2015 - Present
• Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology Senior Research Fellow
  2015 - 2015
• Nanyang Technological University
  2013 - 2015
• ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Member of Technical Staff
  2011 - 2013
• Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Postodoctoral Fellow
  2010 - 2011

Education

• Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen PhD
  2005 - 2009
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi M.Sc
  2001 - 2003
• University of Delhi St. Stephen's College B.Sc. (Hons)
  1998 - 2001

Projects & Funding

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Publications (12)

• Effects of Gas Feed Ratios and Sequence on Ethylene Hydrogenation on Powder Pt Catalyst Studied by Sum Frequency Generation and Mass Spectrometry
  ACS Catal. 2014 DOI: 10.1021/cs500109b
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• Structural Inhomogeneity of Interfacial Water at Lipid Monolayers Revealed by Surface-Specific Vibrational Pump−Probe Spectroscopy
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010 DOI: 10.1021/ja106194u
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• Ultrafast inter- and intramolecular vibrational energy transfer between molecules at interfaces studied by time- and polarization-resolved SFG spectroscopy
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010 DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00538j
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• Interface-Specific Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy
  Acc. Chem. Res. 2009 DOI: 10.1021/ar900016c
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• Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of a molecular monolayer
  Ultrafast Phenomena XVI 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_166
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• Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of interfacial water
  Chemical Physics 2008 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2007.12.022
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• Ultrafast Two Dimensional-Infrared Spectroscopy of a Molecular Monolayer
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008 DOI: 10.1021/ja710099c
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• Femtosecond time-resolved and two-dimensional vibrational sum frequency spectroscopic instrumentation to study structural dynamics at interfaces
  Rev. Sci. Instrum. 2008 DOI: 10.1063/1.2982058
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• Ultrafast energy flow in model biological membranes
  New J. Phys. 2007 DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/9/10/390
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• Membrane-Bound Water is Energetically Decoupled from Nearby Bulk Water:  An Ultrafast Surface-Specific Investigation
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007 DOI: 10.1021/ja073130h
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