Rate My Professor Suchi Guha

Suchi Guha is Professor of Physics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri, Columbia, a position she has held since 2013 following promotions from Associate Professor (2007-2013) and Assistant Professor (2003-2007) at the same institution. Earlier in her career, she served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Missouri State University from 2000 to 2003 and at Marquette University from 1998 to 2000, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 1996 to 1998. Guha earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Arizona State University in 1996, with a thesis on Raman spectroscopic studies advised by José Menéndez. She holds an M.S. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1990, where her project focused on fabrication and characterization of amorphous silicon solar cells, and a B.S. in Physics (Honours) from Miranda House College, University of Delhi in 1988.

Her research centers on experimental condensed matter physics, specifically organic optoelectronics and optical spectroscopy of organic and inorganic semiconductors, including halide perovskites and peptide nanocomposites. Her group investigates molecular and organic electronics such as field-effect transistors, solar cells, photodiodes, and light-emitting diodes, employing techniques like Raman scattering, photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy, modulation spectroscopy with high-pressure studies, non-linear optical spectroscopy, and device fabrication methods including spincasting, thermal evaporation, inkjet printing, and self-assembly. Ongoing projects address improving field-effect transistor performance through polymer-dielectric interface control, charge transfer in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells, triplet excitations in charge transport, and high-pressure spectroscopy of donor-acceptor heterojunctions. Guha's key publications include 'Understanding charge transport in lead iodide perovskite thin-film field-effect transistors' (Science Advances, 2017), 'Electronic structures and spectral properties of endohedral fullerenes' (Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2005), 'Temperature dependent photoluminescence of organic semiconductors with varying backbone conformation' (2002), and recent works such as 'Structure–function coupling in pyridyl-triazole copolymers for neuromorphic synaptic transistors' (ACS Appl. Electron. Mater., 2026) and 'Impact of Aging Temperatures on the Ostwald Ripening Crystallization and Optical Properties in CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystals' (ACS Omega, 2026). She has garnered awards including Physics Alumni Faculty Fellow (2023, 2017, 2009), Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education (2018), Excellence in Education Award (2017), Brazil-US Professorship (American Physical Society), Pesquisador Visitante Especial (Brazil, 2014-2017), Extraordinary Professor at University of Western Cape (2019-2025), and Mark Anderson Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (1996).