Dr. Sasanka Deka is a Professor of Chemistry, Nanochemistry, and Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (ECS) in the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi. He serves as the Joint Director, University Instrument Science Centre, Delhi. He received his Ph.D. degree from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL-Pune) under the supervision of Prof. P.A. Joy. He did his postdoctoral research from National Nanotechnology Laboratory, CNR-INFM, Lecce, Italy and Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy under the mentorship of Prof. Liberato Manna. He has been awarded the TMS Foundation 2008 SHRI RAM ARORA AWARD, by the TMS, Warrendale, USA; DAE-BRNS Young scientist research award, RSC best talk-2015, Institute of Physics (IOP), UK best-cited paper-India 2019, RSC best-cited paper in 2020, IIREA Award 2021, DU-IoE research publication award 2023. Dr. Deka has published more than 80 highly cited research papers in different international high impact journals, 3 patents, and also wrote 2 books and 3 book chapters published by international publishers. He has successfully handled several extramural research projects from DST, CSIR, SERB, DBT, DAE, DAAD, IoE-DU, etc. He has been a visiting fellow of SPS, JNU, and Adjunct Faculty at the Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST), Kashmir in the past. He is also actively involved in many of the academic/administrative work at the University and National level and acted as chair/executive member in various committees. 

His research interests include Synthetic Nanochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Manipulation at the Interface and crystal facets, Advanced nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage (green hydrogen, sustainable development, supercapacitors); Single atom for catalysis.

Recent news:

Congratulations to Saloni and Dharmendra Yadav for their recent publication in "Advanced Functional Materials ". (2025)

Congratulations to Dharmendra Yadav and Saloni for their recent publication in "Small ". (2025)

Congratulations to Susmita Mazumdar for best poster award in SEFCO_2025, IIP-CSIR, Dehradun  

Welcome Ms. Mayini Krichena to the group as new entry, Feb 2025.

Congratulations to Abhinav Yadav for best poster award in International “Conference on Electrochemistry in Industry, Health and Environment" (EIHE-2025), January 21 to 25, 2025. BARC, Mumbai. 

Congratulations to Abhinav Yadav for his recent publication in "Small". (2025)

Congratulations to Md. Javed for his recent publication in "Small". (2024)

Congratulations to Md. Javed for his recent publication in "Energy & Fuels".(2024)

Congratulations to Ankur Kumar for his recent publication in "ACS Catalysis".(2023)