Dr. Suman Mandal (HOD) suman.mandal@basirhatcolle.org

Specialization in Physical Chemistry

Dr. Suman Mandal, Assistant Professor, M.Sc.,Ph.D.

Dr. Mandal joined Basirhat College in the year 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He obtained B.Sc and M.Sc from the University of Kalyani. His doctoral research is on "Synthesis and stabilization of metal nanoparticles and its application in dye reduction catalysis" for which he was awarded Ph.D by the University of Kalyani in 2014.

Dr. Swastik Karmakar, Associate Professor, M.Sc.,Ph.D.

swastik.karmakar@basirhatcollege.org

Specialization in Organic Chemistry

Dr. Karmakar received his M. Sc. from the University of Kalyani securing the position First-Class-First in 1999. He started his Ph. D. research on ‘Asymmetric Synthesis of some Natural Products’ with Professor Shital K. Chattopadhyay, University of Kalyani as a CSIR-JRF in 2000 and also qualified GATE-2000 (All India Rank-95). He joined Basirhat College as a ‘Lecturer in Chemistry’ in 2003 and awarded his Ph. D. in 2006. He then moved to Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea with Brain Korea-21 post-doctoral fellowship (BK21) to carry out transition metal catalysed organic synthesis with Professor C. H. Oh. After coming back in 2008, he started independent research work in the College on transition metal catalysed synthesis of medicinally interesting heterocycles being awarded a major research project from the DST-SERB, Govt. of India, under the Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists. He is a life member of ‘Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science’ (IACS). His current research interest includes transition metal catalysed asymmetric synthesis of bio-active heterocycles.

Dr. Monojit Sarkar,Assistant Professor, M.Sc., Ph.D

monojitsarkar@basirhatcollege.org

Specialization in Physical Chemistry

Dr. Sarkar joined the Department of Chemistry on 08.11.2006. He received his B.Sc. degree from University of Calcutta and M.Sc. degree from the University of Kalyani. He obtained his Ph.D degree from University of Kalyani. His research area was about various nano scale systems.

Dr. Bidyut Debnath, Assistant Professor, M.Sc.,Ph.D.

bidyut.debnath@basirhatcollege.org

Specialization in Physical Chemistry

Dr. Bidyut Debnath joined the Department of Chemistry on 1st April, 2015. He has done M.Sc from North Bengal University with specialization in Physical Chemistry in the year 1999. He was awarded Ph.D degree from North Bengal University in the year 2010. He is interested in polymer and surface chemistry.

Mr. Prasanta Das, State Aided College Teacher, M.Sc.

prasanta.das@basirhatcollege.org

Specialization in Organic Chemistry

Prof. Prasanta Das joined Basirhat College on 29.08.2017. He completed his B.Sc and M.Sc degree from West Bengal State University.