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Premamoy Ghosh, Former Professor and Head, Department of Polymer Science and Technology, Calcutta University, is the author/coauthor of several books and nearly 300 research papers and review articles published in different journals, particularly in the area of polymer science and technology. His research interests cover polymer synthesis and characterization; polymer modification, polymerization kinetics and mechanistics, photopolymerization, polymer end groups and microstructure; graft and block copolymerization; rubber compounding and vulcanization; modification of cotton, wool, jute and related fibres; fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, polymer rheology and polymer morphology; paper and textile finishing; polymer blends and interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) and conducting polymers. He has also contributed chapters in several edited volumes on polymer science and applied chemistry and in the Encyclopedia of Polymeric Materials.

Prof Ghosh is currently the head of "Polymer Study Centre," instituted by him in Kolkata in 1996. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Polymer Materials, M D Publications, New Delhi, and Chairman of the editorial board of the journal Indian Science Cruiser, published by the Institute of Science, Education and Culture (ISEC), Kolkata. He is a former member of the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Technology, CSIR, New Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, London, and of the Institution of Engineers, India; a life member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Kolkata and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.

Prof Ghosh's contributions in Bengali literature include a collection of poems titled "SUPARNA" (2005), a book on polymer science Polymer Vijnan O Manab Samaj (2005) and a 350-page memoir "Esho Chairasundar" (2001).