Research Experience

2020 - Present Assistant Professor

School of Chemical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswar, India

2018 - 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Twente, The Netherlands

2015 - 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow

Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel

Advisor: Prof. Rafal Klajn

Education

2014 Ph. D.: Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly                                                                                  

  Thesis Title: Self-Assembled Coordination Cages for Catalysis and Proton Conduction

  Supervisor: Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

   Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India                                                            

2009 M. Sc.: Chemistry                                                                                                               

  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India

2007 B. Sc.: Chemistry (Hons.)                                                                                              

                Presidency College, Kolkata (Now Presidency University), West Bengal, India

Awards

1. Inspire Faculty Award in Chemistry on 2019 call by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India

2. Recipient of a Travel Fellowship at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC 2016)

3. Poster award at International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and Materials (SCOMM-2014)

4. Recipient of “Shyama Prasad Mukherjee” (SPM) Fellowship (2009)

5. Qualified GATE in 2009 securing 99.73 percentile (All India Rank - 18)

6. Qualified CSIR-NET (December, 2008 and June, 2009)

7. Institute Merit Scholarship for outstanding academic performance throughout all four semesters in MSc at IIT Madras

8. Qualified JAM (Joint Admission Test for MSc. at IITs), 2007, All India Rank – 131