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Deepak Mathur (born 8 April 1952) is an Indian molecular and atomic physicist and was a Distinguished Professor at the
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. He has been the J C Bose National Fellow at the Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics at
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(MAHE) and founding director of the UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Science at the University of Mumbai. Known for his research on
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, Mathur is an elected fellow of the
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,
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and
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. The
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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the
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, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1991. Amongst other awards, he has been the Royal Society's Guest Fellow at Oxford University and winner of the European Union's Erasmus-Mundus prize in optical science which he held at Imperial College London. Currently he is an adjunct professor at MAHE and is also learning to fly. His initial training was on a Grob G-115 2-seater training aircraft but he has now moved on to flying PA-28 4-seater aircraft.


Biography

Deepak Mathur was born on 8 April 1952 and completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at the
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in 1973. He continued his doctoral studies in the UK at
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under the guidance of John Hasted. Securing his PhD in 1976, he did his post-doctoral research under
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at the department of physics and astronomy of the University of London during 1976–78 and started his career as a research officer at his alma mater, Birkbeck College, in 1978. Three years later, he returned to India to take up a faculty position at
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a leading research Institute under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is a public deemed university located at Navy Nagar, Colaba in Mumbai. It also has a centres in ...
. He serves there as the principal investigator at the Atomic and Molecular Sciences Laboratory and as a distinguished professor of the institute. When the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences was established in 2007 as an autonomous institute under the
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, he became its founding director and held the post for a while. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Centre for Atomic and Molecular Physics, (formerly Manipal University), and as a visiting professor at several universities and institutions which include
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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.


Legacy

During his post-doctoral work in Sir Harrie Massey's laboratory at University College London, Mathur's focus was on electron-ion collision experiments within an ion trap. Later, he furthered his experiments by developing an energy spectrometric technique. He has also developed other laboratory instruments and is credited with a class of ''isolated metastable multiply-charged molecular ions'' which have a lower rate of dissociation. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 225 of them. He has edited one book, ''Physics of Ion Impact Phenomena'' and has contributed chapters to books edited by others. He served as the editor of
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, as the co-editor of
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and sat in the advisory boards of
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and EPL (journal). As the founder director of the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mathur is known to have established a research-based integrated master's program at the institute. He has been associated with a number of national and international organizations and has held the vice chair of the Commission on C-15 on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the
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. He has co-chaired the Asian Intense Laser Network and has served as the secretary of the International Committee for Ultra Intense Lasers. He has been a member of the International Committee for Intense Laser Science, executive committee of the International Conference on Photonics, Electronic and Atomic collisions, the council of the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology and the executive committee of Nehru Science Centre.


Awards and honors

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the
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, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1991. He is also a recipient of the Eminent Mass Spectrometrist Prize and the Indian Physics Association's N.S. SatyaMurthy Memorial Award. The award orations delivered by him include M. N. Saha Memorial Lectures, T. K. Rai Dastidar Memorial Lecture, L. K. Ananthakrishnan Memorial Lecture and R. S. Krishnan Memorial Lecture. Mathur was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1992 and in 1999, the Indian National Science Academy made him their elected fellow.
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elected him as a fellow in 2013. He has also held several research fellowships such as Royal Society Guest Fellowship at
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, Fulton Fellowship of the
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Selected bibliography


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See also

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Mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is used ...
* Asoke Nath Mitra


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