Biography

Prem Bisht is a professor (HAG) in the Physics department of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) at Chennai. He is heading a center of excellence in Biosensing at IITM. He has been associated with IITM since 1997 after completing a JSPS fellowship program at Kyoto. Prof. Bisht has taught several courses in photonics as well as undergraduate level courses in physics at IITM during last 26 years. Prem has been a visiting scientist at universities in Europe and Japan. A member of Indian Laser and Physics Teachers Associations, Indian Science Congress, and senior member of OPTICA & SPIE, he was awarded the “Platinum Jubilee Lecture award for Physical Sciences at 101st Indian Science Congress. He has over 100 peer- reviewed Journal publications, and over 180 conference publications with over 1500 citations (H-index 20). He has delivered over 100 talks at national and international universities. Prem has trained 16 Ph.D. students, several post-doctoral fellows and over 35 undergraduate students. Currently, 5 students and a post doctoral fellow are working under his guidance.

His current research interests are ultrafast laser fluorescence spectroscopy of low dimensional materials with a particular interest in working with non-collinear optical parametric amplifiers and quantum imaging and, whispering gallery modes (WGMs) of nano-micro-cavities as well as photonic nano jet.