Education
• Ph.D. Physics, 2004, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
• Five year Integrated MSc in Physics. 1997, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Experience
• Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 2020 – current.
• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, August 2016 – December 2020.
• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2009 – 2016.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, USA, 2005 – 2009.

Research Interests
• Magnetic nanoswimmers for nanobiotechnology and microfluidics
• Electron bubbles in quantum fluids
• Quantum sensing with NV-centres
• Driven colloids and active matter
• Plasmonics and 2D materials

Research Area
Nanorobotics, Quantum Fluids, Liquid and Superfluid Helium, Active matter, Nanobiotechnology, Biophysics, Quantum sensing, Plasmonic metamaterials, 2D materials, Optoelectronics

Recent Publications

• A roadmap for next-generation nanomotors, Shuqin Chen, Donglei Emma Fan, Peer Fischer, Ambarish Ghosh, Kerstin Göpfrich, Ramin Golestanian, Henry Hess, Xing Ma, Bradley J. Nelson, Tania Patiño Padial, Jinyao Tang, Katherine Villa, Wei Wang, Li Zhang, Ayusman Sen & Samuel Sánchez, Nature Nanotechnology (2025)

• Directed Self-Assembly of Magnetic Bioceramic Deep Inside Dentinal Tubules May Alleviate Dental Hypersensitivity, Shanmukh Peddi, Prajwal Hegde, Prannay Reddy, Anaxee Barman, Arnab Barik, Debayan Dasgupta, and Ambarish Ghosh, Advanced Science, 12, e07664, 2025

• Technology Roadmap of Micro/Nanorobots, Xiaohui Ju et al., published in ACS Nano, 2025

• Frequency-Chirped Actuation of Chiral Magnetic Microbots for Viscosity Mapping in Heterogenous Media: From Model Fluids to Living Cells, Sayanta Goswami, Souravi Mukherjee, Nahid Ahmed, M Sreepadmanabh, Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, Ramray Bhat, Deepak Saini, Ambarish Ghosh, ACS Nano 2025

• Stable and highly steerable magnetic nanorobots demonstrate therapeutical functionality in crowded biological media, Jyotiprakash Behera^#, Suvra S. Laha^#, Debayan Dasgupta^#, Sayanta Goswami, Souravi Mukherjee, Ankur Jaiswar, Paramita Modak, Mallar Banerjee, Reshma V. Ramachandran, Konstantin I. Morozov, Alexander M. Leshansky, Ramray Bhat, Deepak K. Saini, Ambarish Ghosh*, ACS Nano, 19, 18, 17785–17795, 2025

• Externally controlled intermittent randomization enables complex navigation of multiple nanobots, Rahul Goyal, Jyotiprakash Behera, Pranay Mandal, Ambarish Ghosh, Nature Communications 16, 2700 (2025)

• Controlling the Growth and Collapse of Multielectron Bubbles in Liquid Helium by Engineering the Convective Flow, Dillip Pradhan, Soutik Sur, Neda Shamim, Vaisakh Vadakkumbatt, and Ambarish Ghosh, Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 1-11. 10.1007/s10909-025-03307-1, 2025

• Mobile Nanotweezers for Active Colloidal Manipulation, Souvik Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh, Science Robotics, 3, 14, eaaq0076, 2018

Key Publications

• Using the Thermal Ratchet Mechanism to Achieve Net Motility in Magnetic Microswimmers, Gouri Patil, Pranay Mandal, Ambarish Ghosh, Physical Review Letters, 129, 198002, 2022

• Bubbles in Superfluid Helium Containing Six and Eight Electrons: Soft, Quantum Nanomaterial, Neha Yadav, Prosenjit Sen, Ambarish Ghosh, Science Advances, 7 (28), eabi7128, 2021

• All optical dynamic nanomanipulation with active colloidal tweezers, Souvik Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh, Nature Communications, 10, 1, 4191, 2019.

• Manoeuvrability of Magnetic Nanomotors Inside Living Cells, Malay Pal, Neha Somalwar, Anumeha Singh, Ramray Bhat, Sandeep M. Eswarappa, Deepak K. Saini, and Ambarish Ghosh, Advanced Materials, 30, 1800429, 2018.

• Mobile Nanotweezers for Active Colloidal Manipulation, Souvik Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh, Science Robotics, 3, 14, eaaq0076, 2018

Patents

• A Method And A System For Manipulation Of Materials With Light In Fluids, Souvik Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh, PCT/IB2019/059782, Feb 2020

• Controlling motion of magnetically driven microscopic particles, Shanmukh Srinivas, Debayan Dasgupta, Ambarish Ghosh, Indian patent (provisional) application 201941021608, May 2019

• A method for locomotion of a nanorobot and implementations thereof, Debayan Dasgupta, Ambarish Ghosh, Indian patent (provisional) application 201941031224, July 2019

• Charge-based methods for studying a biochemical micro-environment, Debayan Dasgupta, Dharma Tejashwar Reddy Pally, Deepak Saini, Ramray Bhat, Ambarish Ghosh, Indian patent (provisional) application 201941042707, August 2019

• Magnetically Augmented Plasmonic Tweezers, PCT Application No.: PCT/IN2018/050566; Sep 2018A Method and a System for Rheological Measurements, Arijit Ghosh, Pranay Mandal and Ambarish Ghosh, (2015), 715/CHE/2015

• A Method and a System for Rheological Measurements, Arijit Ghosh, Pranay Mandal and Ambarish Ghosh, (2015), 715/CHE/2015

• Vertical Integration of Nano and Microparticle Assemblies With Atomically Thin Membranes, Debadrita Paria, Srinivasan Raghavan, Arindam Ghosh and Ambarish Ghosh, (2014), 6746/CHE/2014

• Three dimensional plasmonic substrates for sensing applications, Ambarish Ghosh and Haobijam Johnson Singh, (2012), # 1979/CHE/2012

• Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers, Peer Fischer and Ambarish Ghosh, (2010), US 20110270434 A1

• Circular birefringence refractometer: method and apparatus for measuring optical activity, Peer Fischer and Ambarish Ghosh, (2007), PCT/US2007/072248