Debabrata Goswami Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2017, he was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America “for seminal and significant contributions in ultrafast optical instrumentation for exploitation in cross-disciplinary fields like quantum information and biomedical applications as well as pedagogy in optics and photonics and voluntary services to OSA” (Engineering and Science Research).

After graduating, he spent two years at the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1994-1996 before spending a year at Quantronix Corporation in 1997. He returned to the Princeton University Center for Ultrafast Laser Labs in 1998. He returned to India to join the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as a Fellow-E in 1998 as part of the DNAP (Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics). In 2003, He moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, his alma-mater, to join the Department of Chemistry as an associate professor and has remained there since, currently as a professor (Higher Administrative Grade). He was awarded the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professorship of Chemistry in 2018. He also holds a joint appointment at the same institute in The Center for Lasers & Photonics.

1964. B.Sc. Jadavpur University, 1986. M.Sc. IIT Kanpur, 1988.Princeton University, M.A. 1990; Ph.D. 1994. PDF at Harvard University, 1993-94. His work at Princeton overlapped with future Nobel laureate in physics Donna Strickland.