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Abhik Ghosh is a professor of chemistry at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway. As an author, he is held in libraries worldwide.
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Early life and education
An Indian national, Ghosh obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Paul Gassman at the University of Minnesota in 1992.
Career
After a brief stint in California, he moved to Norway in 1996, where he has remained ever since. During 1997-2004, he was a Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego. During the 1990s, he worked in the field of computational bioinorganic chemistry, where he reported some of the first high-level ab initio calculations on porphyrins and some of the first DFT studies on metalloporphyrins and high-valent iron intermediates of heme and nonheme iron enzymes.
He served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (1999-2001, 2005-2007) and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (2000-) and Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2007-present). In addition, he has edited numerous special issues and volumes in the areas of bioinorganic chemistry and computational chemistry, including a three-part series on Computational Bioinorganic Chemistry in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology].
Much of Ghosh's research is concerned with fundamental questions of molecular geometric and electronic structure and of reaction mechanisms, which he addresses with including chemical synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical methods, and density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio calculations.
From 2006, he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, on many occasions. In recent years, his experimental work has focused on corroles. Along with his student Jan Capar, he invented the reductive demetallation protocol for metallocorroles. For a number of metallocorroles, he identified the corrole ligand as noninnocent and determined key spectroscopic signatures for the phenomenon of ligand noninnocence. In recent years, the Ghosh group has reported gold, platinum, and osmium corroles for the first time.
Among Professor Ghosh's edited works are The Smallest Biomolecules: Diatomics and their Interactions with Heme Proteins (Elsevier, 2008), a monograph on the subject, and Letters to a Young Chemist (Wiley, 2011), a popular science book on careers in chemistry research which is his largest library-collected book. In 2014, he cowrote Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main Group Elements (Wiley), the first textbook to apply arrow pushing to inorganic chemistry.