Ayusman Sen

He received his B.Sc from University of Calcutta after which he obtained his M.Sc from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1978 under the direction of Jack Halpern followed by a year of postdoctoral research with John E.Bercaw at the California Institute of Technology.

He joined the faculty at the Penn State in 1979, where he served as the Head of the Chemistry Department from 2004-2009.

Sen was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005 and the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015.

He was the Iberdrola Visiting Professor at the University of Valladolid, the Coochbehar Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, and Distinguished Scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science.