Bio

Prabir K. Dutta received his BS degree in Chemistry from Calcutta University in 1972 and an MS degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1974. In 1978, he received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Princeton University. After a year of post-doctoral study at Princeton and four years of industrial research at Exxon Research and Engineering Company, he joined The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988, and to Professor of Chemistry in 1992. In 1998, he became the Robert K Fox Professor of Chemistry. He was named Distinguished University Professor in 2010. He received several research and teaching awards, including a Society for Applied Spectroscopy Award in 1993, Ohio State Distinguished Scholar Award in 2000, and a Teaching Award in 2000. He was also the Deputy Director of the multidisciplinary NSF-funded Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements in the College of Engineering and directed the basic research program on ceramic sensors. Professor Dutta was the Department Chair from 2003 through 2007. In 2018, Dr. Dutta retired from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University and was awarded emeritus status.