February 3 2016, 16.01 PM IST || Pocket News Alert
February 3, 2016, New Delhi: Shiv Nadar University today announced that Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of the University. She has been the Director of the School of Natural Sciences at SNU since 2012 and now holds the additional responsibility of heading the School of Engineering. She will succeed Dr. Nikhil Sinha the Founding Vice-Chancellor, who played an important role in designing the blueprint of the Shiv Nadar University and laying down its vision and mission.
Announcing the appointment, Dr. S.N. Balakrishnan, Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University said, “Dr. Rupamanjari Ghosh is an extremely capable leader and has been part of the University since its inception and clearly understands its mission. We needed somebody like her at the helm to lead the University. She brings with her significant academic knowledge, research excellence and institution building capabilities. We are confident that she will prove to be a distinguished Vice-Chancellor and help Shiv Nadar University achieve greater recognition as an institution of advanced learning and research.”
Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh said, “I feel honored to be given this new role at the University. This is a great responsibility! I look forward to working with the Foundation, the Leadership and the faculty, staff & students of SNU towards our ambitious goal of building a student-centric, research-focused institution that will be counted among the best of the world in times to come.”
Professor Ghosh holds a PhD from the University of Rochester, New York, where she worked as a Rush Rhees Fellow, chosen for "outstanding scholarly ability and the promise of exceptional contributions to scholarship and teaching." Her research interests are in Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Information. Her pioneering work with Prof. L. Mandel on two-photon interference (using the nonlinear optical process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion) has yielded a new direction in quantum optics and quantum information, in the creation and use of a source of entangled photon pairs, and of single photons, at the forefront of research today.
She has held several Visiting Faculty / Scientist positions on invitation abroad, and delivered numerous invited research seminars in India and abroad. Recipient of the Stree Shakti Science Samman for her “original contribution to Science”, she serves as an expert in crucial DST (Government of India) committees in Physical Sciences, and in many Central and State universities and institutes. She has also served as the Chief Advisor for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Science textbooks for Classes IX and X, developed afresh under the National Curriculum Framework-2005.
Besides her contribution to science research and training from the university to the school level, she is also well known for her stand and efforts to bring in gender justice and environment consciousness in the higher education system.
