Abhik Ghosh

About

Abhik Ghosh grew up in India and Sweden. He did his B. Sc. (Honours) in chemistry at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and his Ph. D. at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Paul G. Gassman, while also collaborating with Jan Almlöf. After postdoctoral stints with Lawrence Que Jr. and David Bocian, he joined UiT as Associate Professor in 1996, rising to full professor in 2000. He has been a Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (1997-2004) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland (on several occasions) and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2024-2025). Since 2021, he has led UiT’s Center for Sustainable STEM Education.

Abhik won a number of awards including (a) the PROSE Award in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (2015) for the textbook Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry, (b) the Hans Fischer Career Award for Lifetime Achievement in Porphyrin Chemistry (2022), and (c) the Olav Thon Prize for Outstanding Teaching (2024). He is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, the Academia Borealis (The North-Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters), the European Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Europaea. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, and Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.

As a queer chemist, he has spearheaded several projects promoting diversity and inclusion in science. He is also an amateur Sanskrit scholar and a fluent speaker of the ancient language.

Employment

• UiT The Arctic University of Norway Professor
  1996 - Present
• University of California Riverside Research Associate
  1995 - 1996

Education

• University of Minnesota PhD / X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Ab Initio Computational Study of Substituent Effects in Tetrapyrroles. Dissertation Abstracts Intl. no. 9308714 / Advisor: Regents Prof. Paul G. Gassman
  1987 - 1992
• Jadavpur University B. Sc. Honours in Chemistry / Gold Medal 1987
  1983 - 1987

Projects & Funding

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Publications (317)

• Periodic Trends in Low-Valent Group 14 and Group 15 Compounds: Theoretical Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Tetrylenes, Tetrylones, and Singlet Pnictinidenes
  ACS Omega 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6c04637
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• Solid-State Structural Chemistry of Gold Corroles: Nonplanar Distortions, Packing, and Aurophilic Interaction
  Crystal Growth & Design 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6c00328
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• Metal-centered X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy of iron corroles: implications for ligand non-innocence
  Chemical Science 2026 DOI: 10.1039/D6SC00669H
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• Reduced Cobalt Corroles: Isolation, Reactivity, and Electronic Structure
  Inorganic Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c02758
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• Electronic Manifestations of Scandide Contraction: Theoretical Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Monovalent Group 13 Compounds
  Inorganic Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c02000
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• Rhenium-Selenido Corroles: Reflections on 5d Metalloporphyrins and Metallocorroles as Triplet Emitters and Photosensitizers
  Inorganic Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c01593
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• Doubly Stereogenic Sandwich Frameworks: Diastereomeric Metallobiscorroles
  Inorganic Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c00598
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• The Type D hyperporphyrin effect
  Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2025 DOI: 10.1142/s1088424625500518
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• The Enemark-Feltham formalism at 50: An interview with John Enemark and a personal reflection
  Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2025.112897
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• Understanding Anionic Hyperporphyrins: TDDFT Calculations on Peripherally Deprotonated meso-Tetrakis(4-hydroxyphenyl)porphyrin
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07216
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