Sourav Pal

Sourav Pal (born 12 May 1955) is an Indian theoretical chemist, former professor of chemistry at IIT Bombay, and former director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He was a director of the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune and an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

He has made contributions in the field of coupled cluster-based methods of quantum chemistry. He also developed expectation value and the response properties to multi-reference coupled cluster theory, as well as extended coupled-cluster functions. He has developed a non-iterative approximation to coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theoretic equations to calculate non-linear properties.

He has also made contributions in the area of reactivity descriptors; he established Hirshfeld population in the calculation of Fukui functions and developed the local hard-soft-acid-base principle for molecular recognition. He also studied anti-aromaticity in metal clusters. Provided by Wikipedia