Materials Science :(i) Development of New and Novel Chemical Methodologies for preparation of Nanostructured materials, (ii) Mesoporous Materials, (iii) Graphene-based multifunctional nanocomposite, (iv) Polymer-based Nanocomposites, (v) Applications of Nanomaterials: Advanced Catalysis, Nanosensors, Separations, Microwave absorption, supercapacitor, electrocatalysis, etc., (vi) Use of Density Functional Theory (DFT) to explain the properties of the nanomaterials.
Dr Narendra Nath Ghosh received his M.Sc. (1994) and PhD degree (1999) in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India. He has pursued his post-doctoral study in the Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware (USA), the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (USA) and the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington (USA). He joined BITS, Pilani K K Birla Goa campus on 13th December 2004.
Prof Ghosh is one of the editors of the Journal of Materials Science (published by Springer Nature). He is also one of the Guest editors in Frontiers in Materials (Impact Factor 3.515) for the research topic "Dielectric Microwave Absorbing Structures" and a reviewer of more than 35 international journals.
From 2020 to this year Prof Ghosh has been placed among the top 2% of most cited scientists in the world for both categories (“career-long database” and “single recent year dataset”). This database is created by researchers from Stanford University, USA based using Scopus publication data provided by Elsevier through ICSR Lab (https://www.elsevier.com/icsr/icsrlab).
He is the recipient of
(i) TUBITAK visiting scientist fellowship award for the years 2006 and 2009, sponsored by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
(ii) “Research Exchanges with China and India award” in 2010 and in 2015, the Newton Research Collaboration award, from The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), jointly with Professor Gerard F Fernando of the University of Birmingham, UK.
(iii) In (2015- 2016) and (2018-19) Visiting Scholar award to teach a course on Nanotechnology at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Tartu, Estonia in a two-year international Master's degree program Éxcellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) under the Eramus+ program.
(iv) “Vice Chancellor’s Award: Most Consistent Researcher Award” presented by the Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani, Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, on National Science Day, February 28, 2026, at BITS Hyderabad.
(v) CRS Silver medal conferred by Medal Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha® (CRS) (August 2025)
(vi)“Research Excellence Award 2023” in the Basic Science category conferred by BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus.
Dr Ghosh has been nominated to the committee for reviewing the R&D Proposals under CSIR-Fundamental & Innovative Research in Science of Tomorrow [CSIR-FIRST] Scheme. As one of the subject experts, he has also served on the following committees (i) Chemistry for selection of candidates for Commonwealth Scholarship and (ii) subject expert (Materials Science) of SRF/ RA selection committee of CSIR (iii) for the evaluation of several research schemes of UGC.
Dr. Ghosh has published more than 145 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals, invited book chapters, and International conference proceedings. His research work has been reported as a Special Report "Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" in Chemical Weekly, which is a leading magazine for Chemical and related industries.
As of December 2024, under Dr. Ghosh's guidance, eleven students have received PhD degree. The last two students have received the best PhD thesis award.
Dr Ghosh’s research activity is sponsored by several national as well as international funding agencies such as the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Defence Research and Development Organization, Board of Research in Nuclear Science, CSIR, DAE-UGC consortium, The Royal Academy Of Engineering (UK) and British Council (DST- UKIERI), etc.
Dr Ghosh is collaborating with national and international researchers at the University of Birmingham UK, the University of Leeds UK, Drexel University USA, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA, BMIT, Australia, the University of Limoges France, Istanbul Technical University Turkey, USA, DRDO labs (such as Defence Lab Jodhpur, DMSRD Kanpur), CCCM- BARC Hyderabad, NIIST Tiruvantapuram, IGCAR Kalpakkam, Assam University, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, etc.
