EDUCATION

2007: Ph.D in Chemistry, IIT-Bombay, India

2002: M.Sc in Chemistry, Burdwan University, India

2000: B.Sc in Chemistry, Burdwan University, India

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

2023 - Till date: Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India

2020 - 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India

2010 - 2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India

2018 - 2019: Researcher, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany

2009 - 2010: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Uppsala University, Sweden

2007 - 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

2021 - Till date: Member, OWSD, Italy

2019 - 2024: Member, Global Young Academy 

2012 - 2016: Max Planck India Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany

2012: Visiting Scientist, Uppsala University, Sweden

2011: Visiting Scientist, Uppsala University, Sweden

2005: Visiting Researcher, Stuttgart University, Germany

AWARDS AND HONOURS

CSIR Travel Grant for attending international conference in Singapore, July-2014

Max-Planck India Fellowship, from DST & Max Planck Group for Research in Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg-Germany (2012-2016)

Indo-US Research Fellowship, from Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF) (2011) (Not Availed)

Wenner Gren Stiftelserna (Fellowship), Wenner Gren Foundation-Sweden for Postdoctoral Research(2010)

Member (26 students) of the Indian team, selected by the Lindau Nobel Laureates Committee, Germany and DST, New Delhi, India for participation in the 56th Nobel Laureates Meeting in Chemistry at Insel Halle - Lindau, Germany, June-2006

Best speaker award (By Royal Society of Chemistry, West India section) at the 17th Research Scholars Meet (11th-12th February, 2005), organised by the Indian Chemical Society at K. J. Somaiya College, Mumbai

CSIR & DST Travel Grant for attending 229th ACS meeting in San Diego, USA, March -2005

Junior (2002) and Senior Research Fellowship (2004) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India

Qualified all India level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2002)

Burdwan University Gold Medal, M.Sc examination (2000-2002)

Gouri Kanta Mukherjee Memorial Gold & Dr. Panchanan Roy and Late Surendra Kr. Roy Prize, M.Sc examination Burdwan University (2000-2002)

National Scholarship (2000 - 2001)