Prof. Amitava Adhikary

Amitava Adhikary is a research associate professor at the Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Delhi in 1998. He did his experimental work as a DAAD fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchime at Mülheim a.d Ruhr/FRG with (late) Prof. Dr. C. von Sonntag and Dr. E. Bothe and at the Physikalisch Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, with Prof. Dr. M. Sauer. Before joining Oakland University (2004), he worked as an assistant professor (tenured) at the Department of Chemistry, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He received the Marie Curie Award for his research work from the Radiation Research Society in 2007. He also received the STE International Achiever Award, 2021, and delivered the STE International Achiever Award, 2021, lecture during the 3rd Annual Meet of STE and International Conference on “Environment, Water, Agriculture, Sustainability and Health (EWASH-2021): United Together in The Battle Against Pandemic” held online on 21–22 January 2022. He was the councilor (chemistry) of the Radiation Research Society in 2017–2020 and now is the president of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS). He is an associate editor of (a) Radiation Research and (b) Radiation Physics & Chemistry and (c) a review editor (Frontiers in Chemistry). His research interest is to unravel the chemical pathways involved in radiation damage to biomacromolecules, including DNA.