Professional Experience

• Feb-2026-Present 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

• March-2026-Present 

Nodal Officer for Safety and Disaster Management Committee at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur

• Oct 2025-Jan 2026 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Patliputra University, Patna, Bihar

• Oct 2023-Sept 2025 

Postdoc École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (Supervisor Prof. Marinella Mazzanti)

• March 2020-Sept 2023 

Postdoc University of Pennsylvania (Supervisor Prof. Eric J. Schelter)

Education

• Ph.D Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 2020 (Supervisor: Jitendra K. Bera)

• M.Sc. Banaras Hindu University (2012) (Project Supervisor: Prof. Kaushal K Upadhyay)

• B.Sc.(Hons.) Banaras Hindu University (2010) 

Honors and Awards

• Member of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2025

• Best Poster award in 29th Rare Earth Research Conference (RERC29) held in Philadelphia,

PA, USA, June (2022).

• 2022 Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize 

• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR, India) 2015-2017

• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR, India) 2013-2015

Invited Talks/Conferences/Workshops

• Faculty Poster Presentation: “Accessing Homoleptic Neutral and Anionic Fivecoordinate Pr(IV) Siloxide Complexes.” in International Conference on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC XXII-DU) held in Delhi, India December (2025).

• Invited talk at Pre-Examination Training Centre Nalanda -2 (Rajgir) by BC & EBC Welfare Department, Govt. of Bihar (17th Nov 2025) to motivate underprivileged students for better future.

• Poster Presentation: “Photochemical route for synthesis and reactivity of uranium nitride complexes. ” in International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC-2024) held in Agra, India July (2024).

• Workshop at the University of Bern, Switzerland on: ”Fix the Leaky Pipeline (FLP) 2024” (June 4th 2024) for Female Representation in STEM.

• Invited talk at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) For Foreign Expert Guest Lecture in Concern to 8th Module (17th April 2024). Tittle of the talk: ”Organocerium Complexes and their application towards fulleride based molecular materials and photocatalysis.

• Invited Talk at University of Missouri USA for Future Faculty Development Program December 2022

• Poster Presentation: “Towards Organocerium Based Fulleride Molecular Materials” in 29th Rare Earth Research Conference (RERC29) held in Philadelphia, PA USA June (2022). (Best Poster awarded).

• Invited talk in the ‘2nd ACS-CRSI meeting’ at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, on 18th July 2019. Title: “Direct Hydrosilylative Reduction of Primary Amides to Primary Amines Catalysed by A Terminal [Ni-OH] Complex.”

• Poster Presentation: “Directed Bifunctional Double Hydrogen Transfer (BDHT) Pathway for Alcohol Dehydrogenation” in 28th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC-2018) held in Florence, Italy July (2018).

• Invited talk on ‘Research Scholar’s Day’ at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, on 27th February 2016. Title: “A b protic N-Heterocyclic Carbene. (NHC) Ru(II) Complex for Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of Alcohols.”

• Poster Presentation: “Triflamide Tethered NHC‒Ru(II) Complex for Bifunctional Hydrogenation of Ketones” in National Organic Symposium Trust (J-NOST) at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, December (2014).

• Poster presentation: “Triflamide Tethered NHC‒Ru(II) Complex for Bifunctional Hydrogenation of Ketones” in ‘Chemfest’ at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, October (2014).

• Poster presentation: ‘Triflamide Tethered NHC‒Ru(II) Complex for Bifunctional Hydrogenation of Ketones’ in Indo-French conference , at NISER, Bhubaneswar, Odisha India, February (2014).

• Poster presentation: ‘Bifunctional N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Complexes and their Catalytic Evaluation’ in International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium (4th ICCC), at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, October (2013).

• Science Academies’ Lecture Workshop on “Molecular Spectroscopy Theory, Instrumentation and Applications.” at Department of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India, March (2012).