Professional Background
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. He served as a lecturer at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Then, in 1978, he returned to Calcutta as Reader in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) where he has stayed to this day. He rose through the ranks to Professor in 1985, and served as department Head. He has served as the Director of IACS from 1999 to 2008. He retired from IACS as a Chair Professor in 2010.
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