Academic Qualifications:

College/ Institute/University Degree Presidency College, Kolkata: B.Sc.(Hons)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur: M.Sc.

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science: Ph. D.

Position held/holding:

Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calcutta 15/7/ 2014 onwards

Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calcutta 15/7/ 2011 – 14/7/2014

Reader, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calcutta 15/7/ 2008 – 14/7/2011

Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calcutta 05/10/ 2005– 14/7/2008

Lecturer & Sr. Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, R.K. Mission Vidyamandira 15/7/ 1999– 4/10/2005

Research Interests:

Stochastic Optimization based study of Atomic and Molecular Clusters.

Optimal Control in Quantum Dynamics of Molecules.

Stochastic study of chemical kinetic processes.

Research guidance:

Number of researchers awarded Ph.D. degree: 5

Number of researchers who have submitted Ph.D. thesis: 1

Number of researchers pursuing Ph.D. : 4

Select list of publications:

Controlling the isomerisation dynamics of iodide acetonitrile dimer complex by optimally designed electromagnetic field: a wave packet based approach; Pulak Naskar, Srijeeta Talukder, Subhasree Ghosh and Pinaki Chaudhury ; Int. J. Quant. Chem.; DOI: 10.1002/qua.25927 ; (2019)

Role of the vibrational contribution in Coulomb explosion in dicationic neon gas clusters: a parallel tempering based study; Sankar Ghorai, Pulak Naskar and Pinaki Chaudhury; Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.; 20 ( 2018 ) 22379-22386

An adaptive mutation simulated annealing based investigation on coulombic explosion and identification of dissociation patterns in (CO2 )n +2 cluster ; Pulak Naskar, Srijeeta Talukder and Pinaki Chaudhury ; Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.; 19 (2017) 9654 - 9668

Structural and spectroscopic studies of iodine dimer radical anion hydrated clusters : An approach using a combination of stochastic and quantum chemical method' Pulak Naskar and Pinaki Chaudhury; RSC Advances ; 6 (15), (2016) 12315-12325