FACULTY PROFILE

Dr Tanmoy Ghosh is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Sciences and Humanities at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology. He received his Ph D degree from the University of Calcutta by working on condensed matter physics at S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata. Prior to joining RGIPT, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at JNCASR (Bengaluru), IST Austria, and as a Humboldt fellow at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He also briefly worked as an Associate Scientific Editor of the leading energy journal Joule from Cell Press.

His main interest is to explore thermal and thermoelectric transports in solids and develop novel devices for thermal energy conversion and management.

Education
B Sc 2007 Burdwan Raj College, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan
M Sc 2009 The University of Burdwan, Burdwan
Ph D 2018 S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 
Experience
October 2023 – Till Date Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
March 2023 – September 2023 Associate Scientific Editor, Joule, Cell Press
September 2021 – February 2023 Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
February 2021 – August 2021 Postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria
April 2017 – February 2021 Postdoctoral research associate, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
  • Undergraduate
    • Classical Physics (B.Tech 1st year, Odd Semester)
    • Modern Physics (B.Tech 1st year, Even Semester)
    • Physics Lab Course
Research Interest
  • Thermoelectric materials and devices for “waste heat” to “electrical energy” conversion
  • Thermal transport in quantum materials
  • Thermal management of electronic and optoelectronic devices
  • Layered materials: dielectric and magnetic properties
  • Exploratory synthesis of inorganic materials
Projects
  • Development of High-performance Thermoelectric Materials Employing High-entropy Alloying (Funded by ANRF) - PI, 2025 - 2027 (approx. 71 Lakhs), ongoing
  • Development of High-performance GeSe-based thermoelectric materials for ‘waste heat’ to ‘electrical energy’ conversion (Funded by CST-UP) - PI, 2025-2027 (approx. 15 Lakhs), ongoing
Scientific Reviewer

  • Scientific Reviewer of Science, Advanced Materials, JACS, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Materials Today Physics, Materials Today Energy, International Journal of Energy Research

Google Scholar: Tanmoy GhoshJournal Publications
  • 2026
  1. U. Valaparla, S. Sau, M. Moorthy, S. Haque, T. Ghosh, A. R. Allu, S. Chatterjee, V. Kanchana and S. Perumal, Off-stoichiometry-driven electronic structure modulation leads to high thermoelectric performance in n-type InSb: an experimental study with theoretical insights. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2026 (DOI: 10.1039/D5TA08992A)
  • 2025
  1. P. Negi, S. Wu, T. K. Panigrahi, K. Samanta, A. Pancholi, A. K. Pathak, S. Das, T. Ghosh, Y. Pan and S. Roychowdhury, Breakdown of Wiedemann–Franz Law and Large Transverse Thermoelectric Conductivity in the Topological Semimetal, TaSb2. Chemistry of Materials 2025, 37, 8383 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02076)
  2. P. Acharyya, A. Das, R. Arora, M. Samanta, S. Das, T. Ghosh, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Electronic Structure Modulation in GeTe by Hg and Sb Codoping Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147, 19296 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05116)
  • 2024
  1. O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, Y. Yu, J. Köttgen, T. Ghosh, C.-F. Schön, S. Han, C. Zhou, M. Zhu and M. Wuttig, Atom probe tomography: a local probe for chemical bonds in solids. Advanced Materials 2024, 36, 2403046 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202403046)
  2. N. Lin, S. Han, T. Ghosh, C.-F. Schön, D. Kim, J. Frank, F. Hoff, T. Schmidt, P. Ying, Y. Zhu, M. Häser, M. Shen, M. Liu, J. Sui, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, C. Zhou, R. He, M. Wuttig and Y. Yu, Metavalent Bonding in Cubic SnSe Alloys Improves Thermoelectric Properties over a Broad Temperature Range. Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 34, 2315652 (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202315652)
  3. V. Taneja, S. Das, K. Dolui, T. Ghosh, A. Bhui, U. Bhat, D. K. Kedia, K. Pal, R. Datta and K. Biswas, High Thermoelectric Performance in Phonon-Glass Electron-Crystal Like AgSbTe2. Advanced Materials 2024, 36, 2307058 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307058) 
  4. I. Maria, P. Acharyya, D. Voneshen, M. Dutta, A. Ahad, M. Etter, T. Ghosh, K. Pal and K. Biswas, Evidence of Lone Pair Crafted Emphanisis in the Ruddlesden–Popper Halide Perovskite Cs2PbI2Cl2. Advanced Materials 2024, 36, 2408008 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202408008)
  • 2023
  1. A. Bhui, S. Das, R. Arora, U. Bhat, P. Dutta, T. Ghosh, R. Pathak, R. Dutta, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Hg Doping Induced Reduction in Structural Disorder Enhances the Thermoelectric Performance in AgSbTe2. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 25392 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09643)
  2. Y. Yu, C. Zhou, T. Ghosh, C. F. Schön, Y. Zhou, S. Wahl, M. Raghuwanshi, P. Kerres, C. Bellin, A. Shukla, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin and M. Wuttig, Doping by Design: Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of GeSe Alloys Through Metavalent Bonding. Advanced Materials 2023, 35, 2300893 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202300893)
  3. R. Pathak, L. Xie, S. Das, T. Ghosh, A. Bhui, K. Dolui, D. Sanyal, J. He, K. Biswas, Vacancy Controlled Nanoscale Cation Ordering Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance. Energy & Environmental Science 2023, 16, 3110 (DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01033C)
  • 2022
  1. D. Sarkar, M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, K. Dolui, S. Das, K. Saurabh, D. Sanyal and K. Biswas, All-scale hierarchical nanostructures and superior valance band convergence lead to ultra-high thermoelectric performance in cubic GeTe. Energy & Environmental Science 2022, 15, 4625 (DOI:  10.1039/D2EE02752F)
  2. P. Acharyya, T. Ghosh, K. Pal, K. S. Rana, M. Dutta, D. Swain, M. Etter, A. Soni, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Glassy thermal conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 single crystal. Nature Communications 2022, 13, 5053 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32773-4)
  3. T. Ghosh, M. Dutta, D. Sarkar and K. Biswas, Insights into low thermal conductivity in inorganic materials for thermoelectric (Perspective). Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144, 10099 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02017)
  4. A. Bhui, T. Ghosh, K. Pal, K. S. Rana, K. Kundu, A. Soni and K. Biswas, Intrinsically low thermal conductivity in n-type vacancy-ordered double perovskite Cs2SnI6: octahedral rotation and anharmonic rattling. Chemistry of Materials 2022, 34, 3301 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00084) 
  5. Y. Liu, M. Calcabrini, Y. Yu, S. Lee, C. Chang, J, David, T. Ghosh, M. C. Spadaro, C. Xie, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, J. Arbiol and M. Ibáñez, Defect engineering in solution-processed polycrystalline SnSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. ACS Nano 2022, 16, 78 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06720)
  6. R. Freer, D. Ekren, T. Ghosh, K. Biswas, P. Qiu, S. Wan, L.-D. Chen, S. Han, C. Fu, T.-J. Zhu, AKM Ashiquzzaman Shawon, A. Zevalkink, K. Imasato, G. J. Snyder, M. Ozen, K. Saglik, U. Aydemir, R. Cardoso-Gil, E. Svanidze, R. Funahashi, A. V. Powell, S. Mukherjee, S. Tippireddy, P. Vaqueiro, F. Gascoin, T. Kyratsi, P. Sauerschnig, and T. Mori, Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials – tables (version 1) (Topical Review). Journal of Physics: Energy 2022, 4, 022002 (DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/ac49dc)
  • 2021
  1. S. Roychowdhury, T. Ghosh (equal first author), R. Arora, M. Samanta, L. Xie, N. K. Singh, A. Soni, J. He, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2. Science 2021, 371, 722 (DOI: 10.1126/science.abb35)
  2. M. Dutta, M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, D. J. Voneshen and K. Biswas, Evidence of highly anharmonic soft lattice vibrations in zintl rattler. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 4259 (DOI: 10.1002/ange.202013923)
  3. T. Ghosh, S. Roychowdhury, M. Dutta and K. Biswas, High-performance thermoelectric energy conversion: A tale of atomic ordering in AgSbTe2. ACS Energy Letters 2021, 6, 2825 (DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01184)
  4. D. Sarkar, S. Roychowdhury, R. Arora, T. Ghosh, A. Vasdev, B. Joseph, G. Sheet, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Metavalent bonding in GeSe leads to high thermoelectric performance. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 10350 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202101283)
  • 2020
  1. P. Acharyya, T. Ghosh, K. Pal, K. Kundu, K. S. Rana, J. Pandey, A. Soni, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Intrinsically ultralow thermal conductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper 2D perovskite Cs2PbI2Cl2: localized anharmonic vibrations and dynamic octahedral distortions. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, 142, 15595 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c08044)
  2. D. Sarkar, T. Ghosh, S. Roychowdhury, R. Arora, S. Sajan, G. Sheet, U. V. Waghmare  and K. Biswas, Ferroelectric instability induced ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in rhombohedral p-type GeSe crystal. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, 142, 12237 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03696)
  3. M. Dutta, T. Ghosh and K. Biswas, Electronic structure modulation strategies in high-performance thermoelectrics. APL Materials 2020, 8, 040910 (DOI: 10.1063/5.0002129)
  4. M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, S. Chandra and K. Biswas, Layered materials with 2D connectivity for thermoelectric energy conversion. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2020, 8, 12226 (DOI: 10.1039/D0TA00240B)
  5. D. Sarkar, T. Ghosh, A. Banik, S. Roychowdhury and K. Biswas, Highly converged valence bands and ultralow lattice thermal conductivity for high-performance SnTe thermoelectric. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 11115 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202003946)
  6. P. Acharyya, T. Ghosh, S. Matteppanavar, R. K. Biswas, P. Yanda, S. R. Varanasi, D. Sanyal, A. Sundaresan, S. K. Pati and K. Biswas, Broadband colossal dielectric constant in the superionic halide RbAg4I5: role of inter-cluster Ag+ diffusion. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124, 9802 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02118)
  • 2019
  1. T. Ghosh, M. Samanta, A. Vasdev, K. Dolui, J. Ghatak, T. Das, G. Sheet and K. Biswas, Ultrathin free-standing nanosheets of Bi2O2Se: room temperature ferroelectricity in self-assembled charged layered heterostructure. Nano letters 2019, 19, 5703 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02312)
  2. M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, R. Arora, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Realization of both n-and p-type GeTe thermoelectrics: electronic structure modulation by AgBiSe2 alloying. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 19505 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11405)
  3. S. Perumal, M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, U. S. Shenoy, A. K. Bohra, S. Bhattacharya, A. Singh, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Realization of high thermoelectric figure of merit in GeTe by complementary co-doping of Bi and In. Joule 2019, 3, 2565 (DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2019.08.017)
  4. A. Banik, T. Ghosh, R. Arora, M. Dutta, J. Pandey, S. Acharya, A. Soni, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Engineering ferroelectric instability to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in Sn1−xGexTe. Energy & Environmental Science 2019, 12, 589 (DOI: 10.1039/C8EE03162B)
  5. S. Mukherjee, R. Chetty, P. V. P. Madduri, A. K. Nayak, K. Wojciechowski, T. Ghosh, K. Chattopadhyay, S. Suwas and R. C. Mallik, Investigation on the structure and thermoelectric properties of CuxTe binary compounds. Dalton Transactions 2019, 48, 1040 (DOI: 10.1039/C8DT04351E)
  6. T. Ghosh, T. Fukuda, T. Kakeshita, S. N. Kaul and P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Magnetic properties of disordered interacting electron system FeAl2-xGax (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5): Origin of local moment behaviour and the stabilization of an antiferromagnetic phase by weak interplanar magnetic interaction. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2019, 782, 915 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.12.249)
  7. Md. S. Hossain, T. Ghosh, B. R. Kanth and P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Effect of annealing on the structural and magnetic properties of CoNiAl FSMA. Crystal Research and Technology 2019, 54, 1800153 (DOI: 10.1002/crat.201800153)
  • 2018
  1. S. Roychowdhury, T. Ghosh, R. Arora, U. V. Waghmare and K. Biswas, Stabilizing n-Type cubic GeSe by entropy-driven alloying of AgBiSe2: ultralow thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 15167 (DOI: 10.1002/ange.201809841)
  • 2017
  1. T. Ghosh, T. Fukuda, T. Kakeshita, S. N. Kaul and P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Concomitant antiferromagnetic transition and disorder-induced weak localization in an interacting-electron system. Physical Review B (Rapid Communications) 2017, 95, 140401 (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.140401)
  • 2016
  1. T. Ghosh, S. Agarwal and P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Structural and magnetic properties of Mn50Fe50-xSnx (x = 10, 15 and 20) alloys. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2016, 418, 260 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2016.04.022)
  • 2015
  1. T. Ghosh, A. P. Jena and A. Mookerjee, Effects of chemical ordering and composition on the magnetic properties of disordered FeAl alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2015, 639, 583 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.03.186)
  • 2014
  1. T. Ghosh, A. P. Jena, B. Sanyal, H. Sonomura, T. Fukuda, T. Kakeshita, P. K. Mukhopadhyay and A. Mookerjee, Effect of short range ordering on the magnetism in disordered Fe:Al alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2014, 613, 306 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.05.113)
  2. P. K. Mukhopadhyay, T. Ghosh and A. Mookerjee, Interesting magnetic behavior of Fe:Al disordered alloys. Physica B: Condensed Matter 2014, 448, 226 (DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2014.03.041)
  • 2013
  1. T. Ghosh, S. Ganguly, P. K. Mukhopadhyay and A. Mookerjee, Electronic and magnetic properties of disordered AuCr alloys: A first-principles study. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2013, 332, 199 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2012.12.007)

 
Book Chapters
  1. High-performance thermoelectrics based on metal selenides, T. Ghosh, M. Dutta and K. Biswas in the book “Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: Theories and Mechanisms, Materials, Devices, and Applications”, Eds R. Funahashi, Woodhead Publishing (Elsevier) 2021, 217, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818535-3.00017-7
Patents
  1. K. Biswas, S. Roychowdhury and T. Ghosh, A lead-free p-type material, and implementations thereof. Indian Patent (Patent Number: 563425). US Patent: (Patent Number: 12414467)

 

 

  • Convener, DUGC (E&HS department) - 2025 till date
  • Member, DPGC (E&HS department) - 2025 till date
  • Member, Purchase committee (E&HS department) - 2025 till date
  • Hostel Warden, CV Raman Hostel - 2025 till date
  • Member, Institute Admission Committee - 2026-2027
  • Member of the Cultural Council - 2024 - 2025
  • Member, Council of Wardens - 2024-2025
  • Member, DUGC (E&HS department) - 2024 till date
  • Invited Talk (Online), World Conference on Hybrid Materials: Micro and Nano Length Scales (WCHM 2026), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, March 2026
  • Invited Talk, International Conference on Advanced Materials‌ and Critical Minerals for Energy Transition (IIM ATM 2025), IIT Hyderabad, December 2025 
  • Oral Presentation, SEFCO - 2025 (International Conference), IIP Dehradun, April 2025
  • Humboldt fellowship for postdoctoral researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2021
  • Qualified Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST), 2009
  • Qualified UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship, June 2009
  • PhD Student
    • Aloke Kumar Pathak - Joined 2024 (MSc - Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal)

    • Jagdish Sahani - Joined 2025 (MSc - Central University of Haryana)

  • Alumni

    • Ankit Khari - Junior Research Assistant (2025 - 2026): Presently at Ariel University, Israel

Dr Tanmoy Ghosh

Assistant Professor
Physics
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