Associate Professor (02/2025-present): School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Assistant Professor (03/2020-01/2025): School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (07/2018-02/2020): Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) Tarragona, Spain (Supervisor: Prof. Ruben Martin)
Leibniz Postdoctoral Fellow (10/2015-06/2018): Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Beller)
Educational Background
PhD (10/2011 - 08/2015): Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Frank Glorius), Grade - summa cum laude (highest grade)
M.Sc. in Chemistry (08/2009-05/2011): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India (Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai)
Summer Internship (05/2010-06/2010): Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India (Supervisor: Prof. Munna Sarkar)
B.Sc. in Chemistry (07/2006-07/2009): Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India
Member of Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) of ChemCatChem (2025-present)
"Thieme Chemistry Journals Award" from Thieme Verlag (2022)
Marie Curie Fellowship (MSCA-IF) from European Commission (07/2018 - 02/2020)
Annex Postdoctoral Fellowship from Leibniz Society (Germany) (10/2015 - 06/2018)
Springer Thesis Prize (2016) for PhD research
Urkunde (Certificate of Honor) by the Rector of WWU Münster, Germany (December, 2015)
PhD Fellowship from the NRW International Graduate School of Chemistry (GSC-MS), Münster, Germany (2011-2014) (selected among 18 from 503 applicants worldwide)
GATE-2011 (All India Rank = 1) by IITs for PhD Fellowship (February, 2011)
NET-2010 (December) (All India Rank = 14) by Joint CSIR – UGC, India for JRF & invited for interview for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) fellowship
Summer Internship fellowship by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata (5/2010 – 6/2010)
MCM Scholarship from IIT Kanpur (2009-2011)
Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (IIT-JAM) (All India Rank = 22) conducted by IITs (2009)
Membership(s)
Life membership of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), India
Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (11/2024 - present)
Inter IISER-NISER Chemistry Meet (IINCM'25), IISER Pune, India, 20-22nd March 2025 (invited talk).
Sustainable Chemistry – III, IIT Indore, India, 18-20th March 2025 (invited talk).
30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC), Agra, India, 14-18th July 2024 (invited).
Emerging Trends in Catalysis and Synthesis (ETCS), IIT Kharagpur, India, 7-9th March 2024 (flash).
3rd International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC), Goa, 30th Oct - 2nd Nov 2023 (flash)
Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences - 2023, NEHU, Shillong, India, 2-4th March 2023 (invited).
4th EuCheMS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (EUGSC-4), Tarragona, Spain, 22-25th September 2019 (oral presentation).
International Conference “Catalysis and Organic Synthesis” (ICCOS-2019), Moscow, Russia, 15-20th September 2019 (oral presentation).
Contact
Dr. Basudev Sahoo Assistant Professor, School of Chemistry IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Maruthamala PO, Vithura , Thiruvananthapuram-695551 , Kerala , India Emali : basudev<at>iisertvm.ac.in, Phone : +91 (0) 471-2778253