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Professor Sujit Ghosh from the Department of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, has been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This recognition is awarded to distinguished scientists and scholars every year in recognition of outstanding research contributions.
The prize is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. and is named after Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), a prominent German astronomer and mathematician.
Key selection criteria for the prize include: excellent scientific achievements that have already shaped the scientific field and reasonable prospect of future outstanding top performance with appeal beyond a narrow field of expertise, among others.
The award carries prize money and enables collaborative research projects at German research institutions. Ghosh will be visiting the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany for collaborative research as part of this prize.
Ghosh’s research group is working on the development and functional studies of various advanced porous materials like Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs), Metal-organic Polyhedra (MOPs), Porous organic polymers (POPs), Hydrogen-bonded Organic Frameworks (HOFs), Nano-composites of porous materials etc. for chemical industry, energy, and environmental applications.
