15 Facts About Deepak Mathur

Deepak Mathur was born on 8 April 1952 and is an Indian molecular and atomic physicist and was a Distinguished Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Deepak Mathur has been the J C Bose National Fellow at the Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics at Manipal Academy of Higher Education and founding director of the UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Science at the University of Mumbai.

Deepak Mathur was born on 8 April 1952 and completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at the University of London in 1973.

Deepak Mathur continued his doctoral studies in the UK at Birkbeck College under the guidance of John Hasted.

Deepak Mathur serves there as the principal investigator at the Atomic and Molecular Sciences Laboratory and as a distinguished professor of the institute.

Deepak Mathur serves as an adjunct professor at the Centre for Atomic and Molecular Physics, MAHE, and as a visiting professor at several universities and institutions which include Oxford University, Swansea University, University of British Columbia, Aarhus University, Tohoku University and Imperial College London.

Deepak Mathur has developed other laboratory instruments and is credited with a class of isolated metastable multiply-charged molecular ions which have a lower rate of dissociation.

Deepak Mathur's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 225 of them.

Deepak Mathur has edited one book, Physics of Ion Impact Phenomena and has contributed chapters to books edited by others.

Deepak Mathur served as the editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, as the co-editor of EPL and sat in the advisory boards of Journal of Physics B and EPL.

Deepak Mathur has been associated with a number of national and international organizations and has held the vice chair of the Commission on C-15 on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Deepak Mathur has co-chaired the Asian Intense Laser Network and has served as the secretary of the International Committee for Ultra Intense Lasers.

Deepak Mathur has been a member of the International Committee for Intense Laser Science, executive committee of the International Conference on Photonics, Electronic and Atomic collisions, the council of the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology and the executive committee of Nehru Science Centre.

Deepak Mathur was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1992 and in 1999, the Indian National Science Academy made him their elected fellow.

Deepak Mathur has held several research fellowships such as Royal Society Guest Fellowship at Oxford University, Fulton Fellowship of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship in optical science and technology of European Union and holds the J C Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Government of India.