Prof Pratik Sen

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Professor Pratik Sen, Dean of Student Affairs ​ Prof. Pratik Sen is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry and holds the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship. He received his BSc and MSc degrees from the Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India, in May 2006. He joined IIT Kanpur as a faculty in December 2008. Prof. Sen’s primary research interest is to gain physical insight into how and why dynamics in various length and timescale control chemistry. His group studies systems ranging from small molecules (Ultrafast-Spectroscopy) to complex biosystems (Biophysical-Chemistry) and simple solutions (Solution-Chemistry). His group mainly uses ultrafast laser and single molecular level spectroscopies as a tool for this endeavour. Further, he intends to develop new methodologies in fluorescence spectroscopy. Prof. Sen has received several awards and recognition for his research including, Young Scientist Medal from Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Young Faculty Research Fellowship from IIT Kanpur, Member, Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), 2016-2020; Young Faculty Research Fellowship, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). For more information please visit: You do not have permission to view link please Log in or Register . Dean of Student Affairs (DOSA) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-208 016 Phone: +91-512-2597297 Email: dosa@iitk.ac.in