25 Facts About Debashis Mukherjee

Debashis Mukherjee is a theoretical chemist, well known for his research in the fields of molecular many body theory, theoretical spectroscopy, finite temperature non-perturbative many body theories.

Debashis Mukherjee has been the first to develop a rigorously size-extensive state-specific multi-reference coupled cluster formalism, and its perturbative counterpart which is getting increasingly recognized as a very promising methodological advance.

The attractive aspects of Debashis Mukherjee's formalisms are compactness and high accuracy.

Debashis Mukherjee has developed a rigorous finite-temperature non-perturbative field theory to study thermodynamics of strongly interacting many body systems, which is being applied extensively to study dynamics of vibronic coupling at finite temperature.

Debashis Mukherjee has coauthored more than 200 papers on various aspects of theoretical chemistry and edited Aspects of Many-Body Effects in Molecules and Extended Systems, Lecture Notes in Chemistry, Vol.

Debashis Mukherjee has been the earliest developer of a class of many-body methods for electronic structure which are now standard and highly acclaimed works in the field.

Debashis Mukherjee developed a linear response theory based on coupled cluster formalism, which is similar in scope to the SAC-CI and done independently of it.

Debashis Mukherjee has formulated an electron correlation theory for strongly correlated systems by starting from a combination of reference functions using a generalization of the usual Ursell-Meyer cluster expansion.

Recently Debashis Mukherjee has developed a suite of state-specific many-body formalisms like coupled cluster and perturbative theories which bypass the difficulty of the notorious intruder problem for computing potential energy surfaces.

Debashis Mukherjee has developed one of the most versatile many-body methods which can predict with quantitative accuracy the energetics, hyperfine interactions and transition probabilities of heavy atoms and ions where relativistic effects are important.

Debashis Mukherjee is currently Professor Emeritus at the Raman Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, the oldest centre for scientific research in the whole of Asia.

Debashis Mukherjee served as a lecturer at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Debashis Mukherjee rose through the ranks to Professor in 1985, and served as department Head.

Debashis Mukherjee has served as the Director of IACS from 1999 to 2008.

Debashis Mukherjee retired from IACS as a Chair Professor in 2010.

Debashis Mukherjee is a fellow of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Debashis Mukherjee is a recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Prize, the first Theoretical Chemist from India to be conferred this distinction.

Debashis Mukherjee has received the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemistry, and has been elected as its Fellow.

Debashis Mukherjee has been awarded the Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1987, and of the Indian National Science Academy in 1991.

Debashis Mukherjee became a Founder Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology in 1988.

Debashis Mukherjee is a founder member of the Asia-Pacific Association for THeoretical Chemistry and has been elected its fellow.

Debashis Mukherjee has been awarded the prestigious Fukui Medal for his outstanding contributions in Theoretical Chemistry.

Debashis Mukherjee has received the Senior Medal of the CMOA.

Debashis Mukherjee has delivered several named international lectures such as the Charles Coulson Memorial Lecture of the Centre for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia and the Kapuy Memorial Lecture at the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest apart for the several plenary talks and keynote addresses at important international theoretical chemistry meetings.

Debashis Mukherjee has many other honors and awards to his credit including the Jagadish Shankar Memorial Award and the Sadhan Basu Memorial Award in Chemistry from the Indian National Science Academy, and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.