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PI: Dr. Debdas Dhabal
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Office Address:
Room No: 106, First Floor, Center for Education Technology (CET) Building, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781039, India
email: ddhabal@iitg.ac.in, debdas.dhabal@utah.edu, ddhabal@seas.upenn.edu
Academic Profile
Sept. 2023 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam-781039, India
June 2020 - Aug. 2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA, Advisor: Prof. Valeria Molinero
Dec. 2017 - May 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, Advisor: Dr. Amish J. Patel
Aug. 2011 - May 2017: Ph. D. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Advisors: Late Prof. Charusita Chakravarty and Dr. Hemant K. Kashyap, Co-advisor: Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy (JNU, New Delhi)
2009 - 2011: M. Sc. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, Project Advisor: Prof. Charusita Chakravarty
2006-2009: B. Sc. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
Awards and Fellowships
2023: Trusted Reviewer Status by IOP in recognition of an exceptionally high level of peer review competency.
2022: Distinction in Doctoral Research Award for 2017: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
2022: Review Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry "Theoretical and Computational Chemistry" Section.
2021: DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award: Department of Science and Technology, India. Field: “Chemical Sciences".
2014: Best Poster Award, Conference: “Dynamics of Complex Chemical & Biological Systems (DCCBS14)”, IIT Kanpur, India.
2012: Qualified National Eligibility Test combined CSIR-UGC (All India rank-58).
2011: Qualified National Eligibility Test combined CSIR-UGC (All India rank-440).
2011: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (Chemistry).
2010: Merit-cum-means Scholarship during M.Sc. at IIT Delhi.
2009: Qualified JAM-2009 in Chemistry (All India rank-141).
Journal Reviewer
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (21) | Nature Physics (3) Nature Communications (2) | Physical Review letters (1) | Scientific Reports (3) | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (3) | The Journal of Chemical Physics (1) | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2) | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (1) | Langmuir (1) | Journal of Molecular Liquids (1) | Journal of Non-crystalline Solids. (1) | Journal of Solution Chemistry (1) | Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A (1) | Physical Biology (1) | New Journal of Phys. (1) | Frontiers in Chemistry (1) | Elsevier Book Chapter (1) | Physica Scripta (1) | Physical Review B (3) | Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (2) | Physical Review E (1) | Physical Biology (1) | Material Research Express (1)
Graduate Scholars
Adyasa Sahoo
VSS University of Technology, Burla, Odisha
Joined: January 2023
Research Area: De-icing and Anti-icing
Project Students
Vedant Subhas Phad
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
BTech Project Student (Feb. 2024-current date)
Research Area: Free energy calculations, Liquid-liquid phase separation
Shreya Anand
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
BTech Project Student (March 2024-current date)
Research Area: Polymer phase behavior
Duranta Darshan Daimari
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
MSc Project Student (Nov. 2023-current date)
Research Area: De-icing and Anti-icing
Pintu Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
MSc Project Student (Nov. 2023-current date)
Research Area: Water and aqueous solutions
Suboshmita Sharma
Guwahati University, Assam
Project Intern (Nov. 2023-current date)
Research Area: Ionic liquids