Rate My Professor Ambarish Ghosh

Ambarish Ghosh is Professor and Chair at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, with an association to the Department of Physics. He earned a five-year Integrated MSc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1997 and a PhD in Physics from Brown University in 2004. Following his doctorate, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2005 to 2009 before joining IISc as Assistant Professor in 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016 and to Professor in December 2020.

His research focuses on magnetic nanoswimmers for nanobiotechnology and microfluidics, electron bubbles in quantum fluids, quantum sensing with NV-centres, driven colloids and active matter, and plasmonics and 2D materials. Ghosh has received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2018, election as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2023, the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2020, the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences India in 2024, the Tata Transformation Prize in 2025, and the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering from IISc in 2026. Key publications include works in Nature Nanotechnology (2025), ACS Nano (2025), Nature Communications (2025 and 2019), Science Robotics (2018), Physical Review Letters (2022), Science Advances (2021), and Advanced Materials (2018). He is also co-founder of Theranautilus.