Deepak Mathur

Deepak Mathur
Born	(1952-04-08)8 April 1952 India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	University of London Birkbeck, University of London
Known for	Studies onelectron scatteringandLasers
Awards	Eminent Mass Spectrometrist Prize 1991Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular physics Atomic physics Biological physics
Institutions	Birkbeck, University of London Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Manipal Academy of Higher Education Oxford University Swansea University University of British Columbia Aarhus University Tohoku University Imperial College London
Doctoral advisor	John Hasted

Deepak Mathur(born 8 April 1952) is an Indian molecular and atomic physicist and was a Distinguished Professor at theTata Institute of Fundamental Research.He has been the J C Bose National Fellow at the Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics atManipal Academy of Higher Education(MAHE) and founding director of the UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Science at the University of Mumbai. Known for his research onmolecularandbiological physics,Mathur is an elected fellow of theIndian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science AcademyandThe World Academy of Sciences.TheCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1991.Amongst other awards, he has been the Royal Society's Guest Fellow at Oxford University and winner of the European Union's Erasmus-Mundus prize in optical science which he held at Imperial College London. Currently he is an adjunct professor at MAHE and is also learning to fly. His initial training was on a Grob G-115 2-seater training aircraft but he has now moved on to flying PA-28 4-seater aircraft.

Biography

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Deepak Mathur was born on 8 April 1952and completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at theUniversity of Londonin 1973.He continued his doctoral studies in the UK atBirkbeck Collegeunder the guidance ofJohn Hasted.Securing his PhD in 1976, he did his post-doctoral research underHarrie Masseyat the department of physics and astronomy of the University of London during 1976–78 and started his career as a research officer at his alma mater, Birkbeck College, in 1978. Three years later, he returned to India to take up a faculty position atTata Institute of Fundamental Research.He serves there as the principal investigator at the Atomic and Molecular Sciences Laboratoryand as a distinguished professor of the institute.When theCentre for Excellence in Basic Scienceswas established in 2007 as an autonomous institute under theUniversity of Mumbai,he became its founding director and held the post for a while.He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Centre for Atomic and Molecular Physics,MAHE(formerly Manipal University), and as a visiting professor at several universities and institutions which includeOxford University,Swansea University,University of British Columbia,Aarhus University,Tohoku UniversityandImperial College London.

Legacy

During his post-doctoral work in Sir Harrie Massey's laboratory at University College London, Mathur's focus was on electron-ion collision experiments within an ion trap.Later, he furthered his experiments by developing an energy spectrometric technique.He has also developed other laboratory instruments and is credited with a class ofisolated metastable multiply-charged molecular ionswhich have a lower rate of dissociation.His studies have been documented by way of a number of articlesand the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 225 of them.He has edited one book,Physics of Ion Impact Phenomenaand has contributed chapters to books edited by others.He served as the editor ofRapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry,as the co-editor ofEPL (journal)and sat in the advisory boards ofJournal of Physics Band EPL (journal).

As the founder director of theCentre for Excellence in Basic Sciences,Mathur is known to have established a research-based integrated master's program at the institute.He has been associated with a number of national and international organizations and has held the vice chair of the Commission on C-15 on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of theInternational Union of Pure and Applied Physics.He has co-chaired the Asian Intense Laser Network and has served as the secretary of the International Committee for Ultra Intense Lasers. He has been a member of the International Committee for Intense Laser Science, executive committee of the International Conference on Photonics, Electronic and Atomic collisions, the council of theRaja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technologyand the executive committee ofNehru Science Centre.

Awards and honors

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize,one of the highest Indian science awards in 1991.He is also a recipient of the Eminent Mass Spectrometrist Prize and the Indian Physics Association's N.S. SatyaMurthy Memorial Award. The award orations delivered by him include M. N. Saha Memorial Lectures, T. K. Rai Dastidar Memorial Lecture, L. K. Ananthakrishnan Memorial Lecture and R. S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture.

Mathur was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1992and in 1999, the Indian National Science Academy made him their elected fellow.The World Academy of Scienceselected him as a fellow in 2013.He has also held several research fellowships such as Royal Society Guest Fellowship atOxford University,Fulton Fellowship of theAssociation of Commonwealth Universities,Erasmus Mundus Scholarship in optical science and technology of European Union and holds the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of theScience and Engineering Research Boardof the Government of India.

Selected bibliography

Books

• —— (6 December 2012).Physics of Ion Impact Phenomena.Springer Science & Business Media.ISBN978-3-642-84350-1.
• Vasa, P.; —— (2016).Ultrafast Biophotonics.Springer Science & Business Media.ISBN978-3-319-81923-5.

Chapters

• —— (2009). "Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics: Progress and Opportunities". In Asoke Nath Mitra (ed.).India in the World of Physics: Then and Now.Pearson Education India. pp. 131–156.ISBN978-81-317-1579-6.

Articles

• ——; Dharmadhikari, Aditya; Dharmadhikari, Jayashree A; Vasa, Parinda (2017). "Hydrogen migration within a water molecule: Formation of HD+ upon irradiation of HOD with intense, ultrashort laser pulses".Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.50(15): 154004.Bibcode:2017JPhB...50o4004M.doi:10.1088/1361-6455/aa7c85.S2CID126119065.
• Kumar, G. Ravindra; Gross, P.; Safvan, C. P.; Rajgara, F. A.; —— (1996). "Molecular pendular states in intense laser fields".Physical Review A.53(5): 3098–3102.Bibcode:1996PhRvA..53.3098K.doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.53.3098.PMID9913248.
• —— (1993). "Multiply charged molecules".Physics Reports.225(4): 193–272.Bibcode:1993PhR...225..193M.doi:10.1016/0370-1573(93)90006-Y.

See also

• Mass spectrometry
• Asoke Nath Mitra

External links

• "DTH in Asia with Deepak Mathur".SES. 9 May 2014.
• Mathur, Deepak (23 August 2017)."List of Articles".TIFR Academia.Retrieved23 August2017.