PI -Suchi Guha

Professor of Physics

Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Editor - ACS Applied Electronic Materials

422 Physics Bldg.

Department of Physics and Astronomy

U. Missouri, Columbia MO 65211


Phone: (573) 884-3687

E-mail: guhas "at"missouri.edu


Ph.D . Physics, 1996

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Major Area: Experimental condensed matter physics.

Thesis: Raman spectroscopic studies of Buckminsterfullerene and related compounds.

Advisor: José Menéndez, Professor.


M.S. Physics, 1990

Indian Institute of technology, New Delhi, India

Project: Fabrication and characterization of amorphous silicon solar cells.


B.S. Physics (honours), 1988

Miranda House College, University of Delhi, India

(Physics honours with electives in Mathematics, Chemistry and English)

EMPLOYMENT

September 2013-present: Professor of Physics

University of Missouri, Columbia MO


September 2007-2013: Associate Professor of Physics

University of Missouri, Columbia MO


September 2003-August 2007: Assistant Professor of Physics

University of Missouri, Columbia MO


August 2000-August 2003: Assistant Professor of Physics

Missouri State University, Springfield MO


August 1998-July 2000: Assistant Professor of Physics*

Marquette University, Milwaukee WI


August 1996-July 1998: Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Missouri, Columbia MO


* Marquette University announced the closure of their Physics major program in February 2000.

HONORS

  • Extraordinary Professor – Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, U. Western Cape – Cape Town, South Africa, 2019-2021

  • Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education- U. Missouri, 2018

  • Physics Alumni Faculty Fellow, U. Missouri (2017, 2009)

  • Excellence in Education Award - MU Division of Student Affairs, 2017

  • Pesquisador Visitante Especial (Visiting Researcher, CNPq - Brazil), (2014-2017)

  • Brazil-US Professorship (American Physical Society award) – July 201

  • Outstanding Referee Recognition (Certificate of Appreciation) – ACS Journals (Dec. 2011)

  • Visiting Scientist –JNCASR and IISc, Bangalore –India, (Jan 2011-April 2011)

  • Excellence in Research College Award-Missouri State University, 2002

  • Mark Anderson Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, Arizona State University (1996)

ACADEMIC GENEALOGY (from JM's Website)

Suchismita Guha (Arizona, 1996)

José Menéndez (Stuttgart, 1985)

Manuel Cardona (Harvard, 1959)

William Paul ( Aberdeen, 1951)

R.V. Jones ( Oxford, 1934)

F.A. Lindemann ( Berlin, 1910)

W.H. Nernst (Würzburg, 1887)

Friedrich Kohlrausch (Göttingen, 1863)

Wilhelm Weber ( Halle, 1826)

Johann Schweigger ( Erlangen, 1800)

Georg Hildebrandt (MD, Gottingen , 1783)

Johann Gmelin (MD, Tübingen, 1769)

Philipp Gmelin (MD, Tübingen, 1742)

Burchard Mauchart (Lic. Med., Tübingen, 1722)

Elias Camerarius Jr., (MD, Tübingen, 1691)

Elias Camerarius Sr., (MD, Tübingen, 1663)