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 Dr. Saurabh Ghosh joined the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Teleology, Tamil Nadu, India, as an Assistant Professor (Research) in June 2017. Now, he works as an Associate Professor (Research) in the same department.

Dr. Ghosh completed his doctoral work at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata and earned his PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, in 2011. Before joining SRM, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the USA from April 2011 to May 2017 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and then at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN /Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Nashville, TN.

In SRM, he has formed and, at present, is leading the ‘Functional Materials by Design’ (FMD) group. The objective of the FMD group is to design functional materials from first-principles Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculation, Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and Machine Learning (ML), guided by group theoretical techniques and supported by phenomenological models.  Understanding a material's ‘structure-property’ relation is key in designing new materials. The group is focused on developing functional materials by tailoring ‘structure-properties’ relations that impact oxide electronics, spintronics, and energy research. The FMD group is forming strong collaborations with other experimental and theory groups (in the USA, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and India) for research activities. The group is productive in publishing high-quality journal papers, i.e., in Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature Communication, Phys. Rev. B., Chemistry of Materials, etc. and funded by various funding schemes by the Government of India. Two PhD scholars have successfully graduated from the FMD group, and one is now working as a postdoc in the US. Dr . Ghosh has given over 40 invited talks. He is the convener of the international workshop and conference “Evolution of Electronic Structure Theory and Experimental Realization (EESTER)”, jointly organised by SRMIST and IIT Madras in India every two years, and that is one of the leading workshops and conferences in India.

Currently, Dr Ghosh is on sabbatical leave and visiting as a scientist in the Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, USA, with host Prof. Brian D. Wirth, Governor’s Chair Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, and working on "machine learning on nuclear materials”