:Deb Shankar Ray

D. S. Ray was born on 2 January 1954 in the Indian state of West Bengal. After securing a PhD from the Rajabazar Science College, Calcutta University for his thesis on Time resolved spectroscopy,{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Ray=3ADeb_Shankar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} he started his career as a lecturer at Jadavpur University in 1984.{{Cite web |url=http://mailweb.iacs.res.in/physchem/pcdsr/carrier.html |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=IACS |access-date=27 November 2016 |archive-date=27 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127154353/http://mailweb.iacs.res.in/physchem/pcdsr/carrier.html |url-status=dead }} He worked at the university for two years when he was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1986 where he spent the rest of his career. During this period, he held various positions such as that of a reader (1991–97), professor (1997–2002), head of the department (2002–05), senior professor (2005–09) and dean of academics (2009–10). He also serves as an honorary faculty member at the University of Calcutta and Vidyasagar University.

Ray is known to have done extensive research on theoretical spectroscopy and nonlinear dynamics.{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}{{cite book|author1=Subhasish Dutta Gupta|author2=Nirmalya Ghosh|author3=Ayan Banerjee|title=Wave Optics: Basic Concepts and Contemporary Trends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXi9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA345|date=15 October 2015|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4822-3774-0|pages=345–}} He is also known to be an inspiring teacher. His later research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science was focused on spin bath processes on which he has written numerous articles. His research has been published in one book, Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications,{{Cite book |title=Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications |last= Debashis Barik, Dhruba Banerjee, Deb Shankar Ray |year=2005 |publisher=Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |isbn=978-1594546112 |publication-date=30 December 2009 |page=125}} also as chapters in books authored by other authors{{cite book|author=R. Inguva|title=Recent Developments in Quantum Optics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baHfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA347|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4615-2936-1|pages=347–}} as well as several peer-reviewed scientific articles. Google Scholar, an online repository of science articles, has listed 181 of these.{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uStgXIwAAAAJ&hl=en |title=Ray on Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}} He has mentored several doctoral scholars in their studies{{Cite web |url=http://iacs.res.in/alumni_physical_chemistry.html |title=Alumni details |date=2016 |publisher=IACS}}{{cite book|author1=S. H. Lin|author2=A. A. Villaeys|author3=Y. Fujimura|title=Advances in Multiphoton Processes and Spectroscopy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7y5qDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA191|year=1993|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-1543-9|pages=191–}} and is a member of the national organizing committee of the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD).{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncnsd.org/noc.php |title=National Organizing Committee |date=2016 |publisher=Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD) |access-date=27 November 2016 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810194144/http://ncnsd.org/noc.php |url-status=dead }}

Ray, a national scholarship holder during 1970–73, received the Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1984.{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |title=Young Scientist Award |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=27 November 2016 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511084357/https://www.insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |url-status=dead }} The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999.{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=7 November 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=12 September 2012 }} He was elected by the Indian Academy of Sciences as their fellow in 1995. and he became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2014. He is also an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Sciences. He was the Acting Director of IACS, Kolkata from 2013 to 2015.

• Spectroscopy
• Nonlinear system

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