CINE WEBINAR: PhD and Beyond: Laying the Foundation for a Successful Career

Prof. Prashant Kamat

Editor-in-Chief of the ACS Energy Letters

University of Notre Dame, USA

Prashant V. Kamat  is a Rev. John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Professor of Science in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Radiation Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Concurrent Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.  He earned his doctoral degree (1979) in Physical Chemistry from the Bombay University, and postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and University of Texas at Austin (1981-1983).  He joined Notre Dame in 1983. Professor Kamat has for more than three decades worked to build bridges between physical chemistry and materials science to develop advanced nanomaterials that promise cleaner and more efficient light energy conversion.

He has directed DOE funded solar photochemistry research for the past 35 years.  In addition to large multidisciplinary interdepartmental and research center programs, he has actively worked with industry-sponsored research. He has served on many national panels on nanotechnology and energy conversion processes.  He has published more than 450 scientific papers that have been well recognized by the scientific community (70,000 citations, h-index 135 – source Web of Science). Thomson-Reuters has featured him as one of the most cited researchers each year during 2014-2020.

He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of ACS Energy Letters. He has also served as the deputy editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. He is a member of the advisory board of several scientific journals (Chemical Reviews, Journal of Colloid & Interface Science, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, NPG Asia Materials, Research on Chemical Intermediates, and Applied Electrochemistry).  He was awarded Honda-Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japanese Photochemical Society in 2006, CRSI medal by the Chemical Research Society of India in 2011 and Langmuir lectureship award in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Pravasi Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.