Scientist's Profile

AWARDS:

1. Best paper award in National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry (NSRP-2009) organized by DAE-BRNS, Govt. of India.
2. Best paper award in Asia Pacific Symposium on Radiation Chemistry (APSRC-2010) &Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry (TSRP-2010) by DAE-BRNS, Govt. of India, Japan, and China.
3. MRSI Young Scientists Award (2012) in Young Scientists Colloquium 2012 organized by the Material Research Society of India (MRSI), Kolkata Chapter.
4. Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2014) Marie Curie Cofund, RBUCE-UP No.246556, awarded by the European Commission and PRES UniverSud Paris University Chairs of Excellence of Paris.
5. Young Investigator Award (2014) in Gordon Radiation Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Radiation Chemistry (GRC), New Hampshire, USA.
6. GOT ENERGY TALENT COFUND Marie Curie Fellow (3^rd position), 2019, co-funded by the EU as part of the H2020-MSCA-COFUND programme (Grant Agreement number 754382), run by the University of Alcalá (UAH) in collaboration with the University Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain.
7. Society of Materials Chemistry (SMC) Bronze Medal-2024, outstanding contribution to Materials Chemistry, DAE-Convention Centre, Mumbai.
8. MRSI Medal for 2024 by the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), in recognition of significant contributions to Materials Science and Engineering.
9. CRS Silver Medal for excellent achievements in Research and Innovation, the societyChirantan Rasayan Sanstha^® (CRS), 2025.

HONORS:

10. Chair a technical session during ICNN 2014: International Conference on Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, held in Venice, Italy, 2014.
11. Visiting Assistant Professor (2014-2015) at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
12. Visiting Professor (2016) in Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, University of Paris-SUD, CNRS, France.
13. Represent as a Women Scientist from India at the ASEAN-INDIA Women Scientists Conclave (AIWSC), from 24-26^th April 2024, Singapore, co-organized by Singapore’s Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) with India’s Department of Science & Technology and Anushandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF).
14. Chair a technical session during the International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) 2024 and 35^thAnnual General Meeting (AGM) of MRSI held in Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore on 3-6^th December 2024.
15. Poster Presentation Judgement during the International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) 2024 and 35^thAnnual General Meeting of MRSI held in Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore on 3-6^th December 2024.

OTHER RECOGNITIONS:

16. Invitation for an adjudicative review for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Chemical Communications since 2016.
17. Selected as one of top 10% of highly cited authors in the Royal Society of Chemistry Materials portfolio of journals, 2019.
18. Selected as top 5% of highly cited authors in Royal Society of Chemistry Materials portfolio of journals, 2020.
19. Mentor, Newton Bhava Fellowship, Liverpool University
20. Outstanding Reviewer for Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry in 2021.
21. Moderator position, 3^rd Edition of International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering, September 21-22, 2022, Virtual Event.
22. Top 2% Most Influential Scientist, 2019-2023, Sandford University (Analysis of Indian Researchers).
23. The nanoscale article is included in the collection, Celebrating International Women’s Day: Women in Nanoscience, 2024.
24. “Band Edge Engineering of BiOX/CuFe₂O₄ Heterostructures for Efficient Water Splitting” 10.1021/acsaem.2c00296, published in ACS Applied Energy Materials in 2022, is one of the top-cited publications that contributed to the 2023 Journal Impact Factor™.
25. Invited to an Early Career Forum celebrating the contributions of early career investigators in ACS Applied Energy Materials in

Awards from Ph. D. Students

• Best paper award in the International Conference on Energy Options for Tomorrow: Technology to Sustainability held on 17- 19^th April 2017, Kolkata, presented by Susmita Bera.
• First Prize in poster presentation in Commemoration of the 156^th Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, The Indian Chemical Society, 2017, presented by Susmita Bera.
• Best oral presentation award at 85^th Annual Session of Indian Ceramic Society on “Advances in Ceramics & Cement Technologies: Materials & Manufacturing” held on 13-14^th December 2021, presented by Susmita Bera.
• Best oral presentation award by Susmita Bera at a one-day workshop on ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS & DEVICES (AEMD), held on 3^rd March 2022.
• S S Bhatnagar Young Scientist Award for Oral Presentation by Soumita Samajdar in the Celebration of the 161^st Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, 30^th–1^st July 2022.
• First Prize for E-poster presentation by Dipendu Sarkar in The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Jharkhand Chapter, in association with CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, “Workshop on Materials for Energy and Sustainability”, 20^th January 2023.
• Third Prize for E-poster presentation by Soumita Samajdar in (NASI), Jharkhand Chapter & CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, Materials for Energy and Sustainability”, 20^th January 2023.
• Best oral presentation award by Soumita Samajdar in 37^th National Science Day Celebration & Global Science for Global Wellbeing‒Lab to the Land, 3^rd – 5^th March 2023.
• Best oral presentation award by Sourabh Pal in 37^th National Science Day Celebration & National Seminar, Global Science for Global Wellbeing‒Lab to the Land, 3^rd – 5^th March 2023.
• Best oral presentation award by Soumita Samajdar in 4^th International Conference on Emerging Smart Materials in Applied Chemistry (ESMAC-2023), Interdisciplinary Science for Sustainability, 18^th-20^th November 2023.
• Best poster presentation by Dipendu Sarkar in ESMAC-2023 Interdisciplinary Science for Sustainability, 18^th-20^th November 2023.
• Best poster presentation by Dipendu Sarkar in the International Conference on Exploring The Emerging World of Ceramic and Glass, 87^th Indian Ceramic Society, 19^th-21^st December 2023.
• “MRSI Young Scientist Award 2024” Tanushri Das at MRSI Young Scientist Colloquium 2024, organized by the MRSI Kolkata Chapter on 11^th December 2024.
• Third Prize for E-poster presentation by Dipendu Sarkar in International Conference on Advances in Sustainable Solutions for Energy Transitions (ASSET 2025), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, January 2-4^th, 2025.
• Best poster presentation by Jishu Pramanik, Emerging Trends in Advanced Materials (ETAM), organized by the Functional Materials & Devices Division as part of Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, during 6^th-7^th February 2025.
• Best poster presentation by Tanushri Das, ETAM, CSIR-CGCRI, 6^th-7^th February 2025.
• Young Scientist Award, Dipendu Sarkar, 39^th National Science Day of India, online National Conference on “Photobiology Research towards Achieving Sustainable Development”, organized by Indian Photobiology Society, during 1-2^nd March 2025.
• Best poster presentation by Soumita Samajdar, CGTME, at CGCRI, 8^th-9^th August 2025.
• Best poster presentation by Jishu Pramanik, CGTME, at CGCRI, 8^th-9^th August 2025.

FELLOWSHIP:

• CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship (2009)
• CSIR-Research Associate Fellowship (CSIR 2012-2013)
• CSIR-Senior Research Associateship (Scientists’ Pool Scheme) (2015-2018)
• Advanced Postdoctoral position in Bremen University, Germany (2014)
• Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (UGC 2015-2018, 2018-2021)

Membership in organizational/national/international committees

• Life Member of Material Research Society India (Life Membership No. LMB2717 Since 2016)
• Member of Material Research Society, USA (MRS) (2013-2014)
• Life Member of Marie Curie Alumni Association, Europe (Since 2014)
• Life Member of Society for Materials Chemistry – SMC India (Life Membership No LM 2069)
• Life Member of Chemical Research Society of India- CRSI (Life Membership No LM4267)
• Life Member of The Indian Ceramic Society (Life Membership No EL-868)
• Affiliate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024-2025)
• Affiliate member of the American Chemical Society (2024-2025)
• Indian Photobiology Society (Life Membership No IPS/LM/00355)
• Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (Life Membership Code 164)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0739-2831

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=1orRg_MAAAAJ&hl=en

Publication Summary: In SCI Journals – 122; Book Edited – 07; Book chapters – 30 (Full list attached)

Total citations:  7212; h-index: 48; i10-index: 99

Conference Presentations Summary: 143 (Invited – 27; Oral – 50; Poster – 66)

Selected Publications (* as corresponding author)

1. Srabanti Ghosh, Debasmita Ghosh, Prasanta Kumar Bag, Subhas Chandra Bhattacharya and Abhijit Saha*, “Facile Synthesis of Water-soluble, Highly Fluorescent ZnTe/Dendrimer Nanocomposite and its antimicrobial activity” Nanoscale, 3 (2011) 1139–1148. (Feature Article) (I.F. = 5.1, Citation: 71)
2. Srabanti Ghosh, Kouame Amoin Natalie, Laurence Ramos, Samy Remita, Alexandre Dazzi, Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Fabrice Goubard, Pierre-Henri Aubert and Hynd Remita *, “Conducting polymer nanostructures for photocatalysis under visible light” Nature Materials,14 (2015) 505–511. (I.F. = 38.5, Citation: 695)
3. Srabanti Ghosh*, Maiyalagan Thandavarayan, and Rajendra N. Basu,* “Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Energy Applications: Towards a Sustainable Platform” Nanoscale, 8 (2016) 6921–6947. (I.F. = 5.1, Citation: 270)

4. Srabanti Ghosh*, Susmita Bera, S. Bysakh and R. N. Basu,* “Highly Active Multimetallic Palladium nanoalloys Embedded in Conducting Polymer as Anode Catalysts for Electrooxidation of Ethanol” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9 (2017) 33775–33790. (I.F. = 10.383, Citation: 91)
5. Srabanti Ghosh*, Hynd Remita and Rajendra N. Basu*, “Significantly enhanced photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) on ZnO-conducting polymeric nanofibers heterojunction under visible-light irradiation” Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 239 (2018) 362-372. (I.F. = 21.1, Citation: 117)
6. Srabanti Ghosh*, Georgiana Amariei, Marta E. G. Mosquera* and Roberto Rosal, “Polymeric Ruthenium Precursor as a Photoactivated Antimicrobial Agent” Journal of Hazardous Materials, 402 (2021) 123788. (I.F. = 14.224, Citation: 24)
7. Susmita Bera, Srabanti Ghosh*, Maiyalagan, and Rajendra N. Basu, “Band Edge Engineering of BiOX/CuFe₂O₄ Heterostructures for Efficient Water Splitting” ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5 (2022) 3821–3833. (I.F. = 6.959, Citation: 85) (Top cited paper, 2023)
8. Yaovi Holade,*Srabanti Ghosh, and Teko W. Napporn, “Best practices for hydrogen peroxide (photo)electrosynthesis” Nature Sustainability,7 (2024) 1085–1087. (I.F. = 27.1) (Citation: 09)
9. Dipendu Sarkar, Maitrayee Biswas, Swarup Ghosh, Joydeep Chowdhury, Biswarup Satpati, and Srabanti Ghosh*, “Nanoscale Level Interfacial Bi-S Bond Assisted Direct Z-Scheme BiOCl/Cu₂SnS₃ Heterostructured Photocatalyst for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution” ChemSusChem, 18 (2025) e202402655. (F. = 6.2) (Very Important Paper) (Citation: 04)
10. Dipendu Sarkar, Jishu Pramanik, Sirsendu Ghosal, Swadesh Paul, -K. Giri, Anuja Datta, Sudarson Sekhar Sinha, Gourisankar Roymahapatra, and Srabanti Ghosh* Synergistic Effect of Atomic-Scale Interface Engineering and Built-in Electric Field at S-Scheme Bi₂WO₆/ZnIn₂S₄ Heterojunctions for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution” Small, 21 (2025) 2505315. (I.F. = 12.1) (Citation: 04)
11. Jishu Pramanik, Dipendu Sarkar, Pravin G. Ingole, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, and Srabanti Ghosh^* “Exfoliated Sr₃FeCoO₇₂ modified TiO₂ based Cathode Material for Ammonia Production via Nitrogen Reduction Reaction and Mechanistic Insights into Charge Transport” ChemCatChem., 17 (2025) e00737 (I.F. = 3.9)

Book Edited

1. Srabanti Ghosh (Editor), “Visible-Light-Active Photocatalysis: Nanostructured Catalyst Design, Mechanisms, and Applications” by Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmbh & Co. KGaA, April 2018, ISBN: 978-3-527-34293-8.
2. Srabanti Ghosh (Editor),“Heterostructured photocatalysts for solar energy conversion” published by Elsevier Inc., 20^th October 2020, ISBN:9780128200728.
3. Srabanti Ghosh (Editor), “Conjugated Polymer Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage” published by Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmbh & Co. KGaA, Germany, March 2021, 59553, ISBN: 978-3-572-34557-1.
4. Srabanti Ghosh, Aziz Habibi-Yangjeh, Sweta Sharma, Ashok Kumar Nadda (Editors), “Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Remediation” published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, December 2021, ISBN: 9780367633073.
5. Srabanti Ghosh, Qian Wang (Editors), “Recent Developments in Functional Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis; In Energy and Environment Series” published by THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY, 8^th March, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-83916-442-2.
6. Valentina Sessini, Srabanti Ghosh, Marta E. G. Mosquera (Editors), “Biopolymers: Synthesis, properties, and emerging applications” published by Elsevier Inc., 21^st April, 2023, ISBN: 9780323909402.
7. Srabanti Ghosh, A. K. Tyagi (Editors), “Heterostructured Photocatalysts For Efficient Solar Energy Conversion: Materials, Methods, and Mechanisms” will be published by Elsevier Inc., 1^st December 2025.

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