Rupamanjari Ghosh was the second Vice-Chancellor (1 February 2016 – 31 January 2022) of

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, Uttar Pradesh, India. She is also the former founding Director of School of Natural Sciences and founding Dean of Research & Graduate Studies at Shiv Nadar University, and a former Professor of physics and Dean at the School of Physical Sciences,

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, New Delhi. Her research areas include Experimental and Theoretical

Quantum Optics Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry that studies the behavior of photons (individual quanta of light). It includes the study of the particle-like properties of photons and their interaction ...

, Laser Physics,

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, Quantum Measurement and Magneto-Optics.

Education and career

Ghosh is a researcher, teacher, orator and an academic administrator. Ghosh has B.Sc.(Physics honors) and M.Sc.(Physics) degrees from the University of Calcutta campus -

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, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the

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, NY in Quantum Optics where she worked as a Rush Rhees Fellow. Her research interests are in Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Information. Her work with Prof

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on two-photon interference (using the nonlinear optical process of

spontaneous parametric down-conversion Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (also known as SPDC, parametric fluorescence or parametric scattering) is a nonlinear instant optical process that converts one photon of higher energy (namely, a ''pump'' photon) into a pair of photons (name ...

) involved the creation and use of a source of entangled photon pairs, and of single photons. After her Ph.D., she returned to India and joined the School of Physical Sciences,

, where she held academic and administrative positions over a span of 24 years. She has also held several Visiting Positions at

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, Universite de Rennes I and

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among others. Ghosh is a former Dean, School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Recipient of the Stree Shakti Science Samman for her "original contribution to Science", she serves as an expert in DST (Government of India) committees in Physical Sciences, in UGC, CSIR, 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. She joined the Shiv Nadar University in 2012 as the founding Director of the School of Natural Sciences. She also took charge as the founding Dean of Research & Graduate Studies, the founding 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 February 2016.

Awards

Ghosh was awarded the Streeshakti Science Samman in 2008.

References

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