Biography:Shohini Ghose

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Shohini Ghose
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Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
Miami University
Scientific career
InstitutionsWilfrid Laurier University
University of Calgary
ThesisQuantum And Classical Dynamics Of Atoms In A Magneto‐optical Lattice (2003)

Shohini Ghose is a multi-award-winning quantum physicist and Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.[1] She is the President (2019-2020) of the Canadian Association of Physicists[2], the Co-Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Physics[3], and the Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science.[1] She was a 2014 TED Fellow[4] and is a 2018 TED Senior Fellow.[5] In 2019 she was featured on the Star TV show TED Talks India Nayi Baat hosted by Shah Rukh Khan.[6] In 2017 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.[7]


Early Life and Education

Ghose grew up in India where she dreamed of becoming an astronaut after finding out about the first Indian astronaut in space.[8] She moved to Miami University for her undergraduate studies, where she majored in physics and mathematics.[8] She received her PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico in 2003.[8] Her PhD thesis, "Quantum And Classical Dynamics Of Atoms In A Magneto‐optical Lattice", which won the Chairman's Award for best dissertation,[9] explored the quantum chaotic behavior of atoms interacting with lasers and magnetic fields.[10]

Research and Professional Activities

In 2003, Ghose moved to the University of Calgary where she held a prestigious Alberta Ingenuity Postdoctoral Fellowship.[11] After only one year of postdoctoral research, accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2005.[8] She continued her research in the field of quantum physics, working on quantum entanglement, chaos and tunneling. She is best known for her work with her colleague Poul Jessen's team at the University of Arizona to make the first ever observations of individual cesium atoms that showed the effect of chaos on quantum entanglement.[12] Her research on quantum chaos was selected for the 2011 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology – an annual collection of amazing breakthroughs in science and technology.[13]

In 2012 Ghose co-authored the first introductory astronomy textbook in Canada for university students.[14] Today her research is focused on quantum information science. She has published on the topics of quantum communication, teleportation, multiparty quantum correlations and quantum chaos.[1] She is a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs,[15] and is the Co-Editor in Chief (2018-) of the Canadian Journal of Physics.[3]

In 2019, Ghose's  TED talk “A beginners guide to quantum computing” was featured on TED.com.[16] In 2014 she gave a TEDx talk at Nickel City titled "Breaking barriers with quantum physics", in 2015 "How Quantum Physics Can Help Us Fight Climate Change" in TEDxVictoria, and in 2016 "The Surprising Power of Uncertainty" at Thunder Bay.[17][18][19] She spoke at the 2015 Smithsonian Institution Future is Here Festival on "Alice in Quantum Wonderland".[20] She has been featured in several online science videos including on BBC and PBS Nova.[1][21][22][23]

Ghose was one of few women in her PhD physics program. Her experiences led her in 2012 to found Laurier's University Research Centre for Women in Science (WinS), whose mission is to build a strong community for women in science through research, communication, and action.[24] The Centre supports research in science and social science, provides resources and mentorship to other organizations, organizes and sponsors conferences, workshops and outreach activities, facilitates networking, and helps develop policy and actions to address structural and social barriers in science. In the WinS research exhibit #DistractinglyHonest, Wilfrid Laurier University researcher Eden Hennessey explored sexism in science.[25] The WinS platform #MySTEMStory explores women's lives in physics. In 2015 Ghose gave a TEDx talk titled, "What if Einstein had been a woman?".[26] In 2016 she delivered an INKTalk "Women scientists you've never heard of",[27] and created a TED-Ed video on Marie Curie.[28]

Ghose serves on various advisory councils and panels, and has served as a consultant to academia, industry and government on the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in science.[1] She is an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and served as the Institute's first Equity Diversity and Inclusion Specialist from 2018-2019.[29] She was part of the advisory team that developed the Dimensions Charter - the Canadian national charter on EDI, and spoke at the launch of the charter in 2019 with Canada's Minister of Science.[30] She is the first Canadian member of the Working Group on Women in Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.[31] This group has organized the largest global surveys of the status of women in physics.[32] Ghose is the first person of color to be elected President of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP).[2] In this role she has created and chaired a standing committee to embed EDI in all activities of the CAP across Canada.[2]

Awards and Honors

Ghose has won the Wilfrid Laurier University Merit Award several times (2010, 2015, 2016, 2018) for outstanding research/teaching/service.

2004 - Alberta Ingenuity Fellowship[11]

2011 - Shera Bangali Award[33]

2014 - Gifted Citizen[34]

2014 - Mahatma Gandhi Global Achievers award[35][36]

2014 - Women of Waterloo (WOW) Education Award[37]

2014 - American Physical Society Women Physicist of the Month[38][39]

2014 - TED Fellow[4]

2015 - Indo-Canadians The A List[40]

2016 - Rogers Woman of the Year Award[41][42]

2017 - Hoffman-Little Award[43]

2017 - Inductee, Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists[7]

2018 - Faculty of Science Award for Teaching Excellence, Wilfrid Laurier University[44]

2018 - Senior TED Fellow[5]

2019 - Featured among 25 women from around the world in UNESCO exhibit, Paris, France: ‘Remarkable Women in Technology[45]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Dr. Shohini Ghose". https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-science/faculty-profiles/shohini-ghose/index.html?ref=science%2Fsghose. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Home" (in en-US). https://www.cap.ca/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Canadian Journal of Physics". https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/loi/cjp. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "TED Fellows Program" (in en). https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-fellows-program. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Laurier Professor Shohini Ghose named TED Senior Fellow | Wilfrid Laurier University". https://www.wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2018/jan/laurier-professor-shohini-ghose-named-ted-senior-fellow.html. 
  6. ↑ "TED Talks India Nayi Baat" (in en). https://www.hotstar.com/ca/tv/ted-talks-india/s-1346. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Laurier professors selected for the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada | Wilfrid Laurier University". https://www.wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2017/sept/laurier-professors-selected-for-the-college-of-new-scholars-artists-and-scientists-of-the-royal-society-of-canada.html. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Women in Physics: Dr. Shohini Ghose" (in en-US). http://blog.cdnsciencepub.com/women-in-physics-dr-shohini-ghose/. 
  9. ↑ "Meet Laurier's Quantum Woman: Shohini Ghose" (in en-US). https://www.universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/look-stage-quantum-woman/. 
  10. ↑ Ghose, Shohini (2003). "Quantum and classical dynamics of atoms in a magneto-optical lattice" (in en). Ph.D. Thesis 676: 283–294. doi:10.1063/1.1612224. Bibcode: 2003PhDT........63G. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lee, Brian L.; Sykes, Brian D.; Fliegel, Larry (2013). "Structural and functional insights into the cardiac Na+/H+ exchanger". Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 61: 60–67. doi:10.1016/j.yjmcc.2012.11.019. ISSN 0022-2828. 
  12. ↑ "Quantum signatures of chaos in a kicked top". https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08396?. 
  13. ↑ Quantum signatures of chaos. doi:10.1036/1097-8542.yb110098. 
  14. ↑ "UWinnipeg Prof Co-Authors Canada's First Intro Astronomy Textbook | University of Winnipeg | News Centre" (in en). https://news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca/all-posts/uwinnipeg-prof-co-authors-canadas-first-intro-astronomy-textbook/. 
  15. ↑ bsia (2017-09-09). "Shohini Ghose" (in en-CA). https://www.balsillieschool.ca/shohini-ghose/. 
  16. ↑ Ghose, Shohini (in en), A beginner's guide to quantum computing, https://www.ted.com/talks/shohini_ghose_quantum_computing_explained_in_10_minutes, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  17. ↑ (in en) Breaking barriers with quantum physics | Dr. Shohini Ghose | TEDxNickelCity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmwLyeWv5M, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  18. ↑ (in en) How Quantum Physics Can Help Us Fight Climate Change | Shohini Ghose | TEDxVictoria, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02ZKWkexeo, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  19. ↑ (in en) The surprising power of uncertainty | Shohini Ghose | TEDxThunderBay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hizqph2qKQ, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  20. ↑ "Alice in Quantum Wonderland" (in en). http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/future-is-here/future-is-here-festival-2015-shohini-ghose/. 
  21. ↑ "BBC Two - Horizon, 2018, How to Build a Time Machine" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bb33ht. 
  22. ↑ "BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Why the race to build a quantum computer?" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csytgh. 
  23. ↑ "BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Why the race to build a quantum computer?" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csytgh. 
  24. ↑ "Laurier Centre for Women in Science | Wilfrid Laurier University". https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/centre-for-women-in-science/index.html. 
  25. ↑ "Laurier's #DistractinglyHonest photo-research exhibit addresses sexism in science | Wilfrid Laurier University". https://www.wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2016/sept/lauriers-distractinglyhonest-photo-research-exhibit-addresses-sexism-in-science.html. 
  26. ↑ (in en) What if Einstein had been a woman? | Shohini Ghose | TEDxWaterlooWomen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IZmDPm8yJ8, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  27. ↑ (in en) Shohini Ghose: Women scientists you've never heard of, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qpeEJCUeZ8, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  28. ↑ (in en) The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JFRi0Qm_s, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  29. ↑ "Perimeter ramps up efforts to support greater diversity | Perimeter Institute". https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/news/perimeter-ramps-efforts-support-greater-diversity. 
  30. ↑ "$5.3M in federal funding to help universities improve equity, diversity and inclusion". https://www.cbc.ca/news/5-3m-in-federal-funding-to-help-universities-improve-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-1.5130884. 
  31. ↑ "WG5: Women in Physics | IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics". http://iupap.org/working-groups/wg5-women-in-physics/. 
  32. ↑ "Global Survey of Physicists" (in en). 2012-02-19. https://www.aip.org/statistics/reports/global-survey-physicists. 
  33. ↑ "Shera Bangali 2011" (in en). https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/shera-bangali-2011/cid/368190. 
  34. ↑ "GIFTED CITIZEN COMMUNITY - YouTube" (in en). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4FvZzvOvAPin80kjF5b-GqFOnfiFyQ8_. 
  35. ↑ "Ghose seen as a 'global' achiever". https://thecord.ca/ghost-seen-as-a-global-achiever/. 
  36. ↑ "Winter 2014 Campus Magazine" (in en). https://issuu.com/wilfridlaurieruniversity/docs/campus_winter_2014_web/41. 
  37. ↑ (in en) Dr Shohini Ghose - Education, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYUQBMIzZM, retrieved 2019-11-17 
  38. ↑ "SHOHINI GHOSE NAMED PHYSICIST OF THE MONTH FOR APRIL 2014". https://services.cap.ca/drupal/sites/cap.ca/files/article/2917/pic-70-1-congratulations.pdf. 
  39. ↑ "Committee on the Status of Women in Physics Newsletter". https://www.aps.org/programs/women/reports/gazette/upload/spring15.pdf. 
  40. ↑ "Carleton Celebrates New A-List of Indo-Canadians and Friends of India" (in en-US). 2015-02-06. https://newsroom.carleton.ca/archives/2015/02/06/carleton-celebrates-new-list-indo-canadians-friends-india/. 
  41. ↑ "K-W Oktoberfest Rogers Women of the Year: 2016 Award Recipients". http://womenoftheyear.oktoberfest.ca/award-recipients/. 
  42. ↑ staff, Record (2016-10-07). "Oktoberfest Women of the Year" (in en-CA). https://www.therecord.com/news-story/6901572-oktoberfest-women-of-the-year/. 
  43. ↑ "Awards of Excellence" (in en). https://www.laurieralumni.ca/s/1681/15/social.aspx?sid=1681&gid=2&pgid=1232&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=1241. 
  44. ↑ "Faculty of Science recognizes Shohini Ghose for excellence in teaching | Wilfrid Laurier University". https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-science/news/2018/fall/faculty-of-science-recognizes-shohini-ghose-for-excellence-in-teaching.html. 
  45. ↑ Equality, UNESCO's Priority Gender (2019-03-06), 19 Shohini Ghose, https://www.flickr.com/photos/153162102@N06/32355786937/, retrieved 2019-11-17 




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