| Profile |
Prof.
Manoj Kumar Mishra, a professor of Chemistry at the Indian
Institute of Technology Mumbai is a scientist in the field of
physical chemistry. He completed his bachelor’s degree from
St. Xaviers' College, Ranchi in 1972 and masters degree from
IIT Delhi in 1974. He did his Ph.D. in Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida, USA in 1981 and post doctoral work at
Uppsala University, Sweden, Aarhus University, Denmark,
University of Florida, USA and Princeton University, USA
between 1981 and 1986. Prof. Mishra joined IIT Mumbai as an
Assistant professor in 1996 and rose from this position to
Associate Professor, Professor and
was Head of the Department
of Chemistry from September 2002 to September 2005. He has
also been a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton
University, USA. He was the Convener, Physical Chemistry Group
IIT Bombay from 1999 -2002. Prof Mishra was the Chairman of
GATE (Graduate
Aptitude Test for Engineering) IIT Bombay in
2009. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of
Quantum Chemistry and a member of the editorial board of
Advances in Quantum Chemistry. One of his main areas of
interest has been Laser Assisted Control of Chemical Reaction.
Here the use of Field optimized initial state (FOIST) based
selective control of elementary chemical reactions using laser
attributes for practical convenience has been advocated. This
has provided new insight into the application of FOIST based
selective control to bond breaking in IBr, HI and HOD. Another
area in which Prof Mishra has worked is Electron Scattering
Resonances. Here dilated electron propagator for treatment of
shape resonances in electron - atom/molecule scattering has
been developed. Since Electron Attachment resonances are the
only rigorous probe of LUMOs this work has provided definitive
characterization of LUMOs in molecules. Prof. Mishra’s work
has been published in reputed national and international
journals. Prof. Mishra has been awarded the JSPS Fellowship at
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, M. N. Saha Award for
Theoretical Sciences by UGC and S.C. Bhattacharya award of IIT
Bombay for excellence in pure sciences. He Phi Beta Kappa, and
Fellows of The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, The
National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and Maharashtra
Academy of Sciences, Mumbai. He has been invited to deliver
the
prestigious Lowdin Memorial lecture in 2010 at Quantum
Theory Project, University of Florida, USA.
|
