CORE FACULTY

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

• Choudhury, S., Joshi, A., Dasgupta, D., Ghosh, A., Asthana, S., & Chatterjee, K. (2024). 4D printed biocompatible magnetic nanocomposites toward deployable constructs. Materials Advances, 5(8), 3345-3356.
  https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/ma/d3ma00958k

• Vashist, E., Ghosh, S., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Spatial manipulation of fluorescent colloidal nanodiamonds for applications in quantum sensing. Advanced Physics Research, 3(2), 2300082.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/apxr.202300082

• Suri, P., Vashist, E., Sai, T. P., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Polarization-Independent Plasmon-Exciton Strong Coupling in a Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide-Plasmonic Heterodimer Sandwich. ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2(8), 1573-1579.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.4c00212

• Rath, P. K., Pradhan, D. K., Leiderer, P., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Kinetics of electrohydrodynamic instability of a charged liquid helium surface. Physical Review B, 110(9), 094510.
  https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.094510

• Pradhan, D., Neeramoole, S., Yadav, N., & Ghosh, A. (2023). Using a cylindrical piezoelectric transducer to focus ultrasound in superfluid helium. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 232(6), 949-955.
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-00764-1

Key Publications

• Yadav, N., Sen, P., & Ghosh, A. (2021). Bubbles in superfluid helium containing six and eight electrons: Soft, quantum nanomaterial. Science advances, 7(28), eabi7128.
  https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abi7128

• Dasgupta, D., Pally, D., Saini, D. K., Bhat, R., & Ghosh, A. (2020). Nanomotors sense local physicochemical heterogeneities in tumor microenvironments. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(52), 23690-23696.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202008681

• Ghosh, S., & Ghosh, A. (2019). All optical dynamic nanomanipulation with active colloidal tweezers. Nature communications, 10(1), 4191.
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12217-2

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 2018

• 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