Dr. Himansu Sekhar Biswal

Himansu Biswal is a Professor of Chemistry at the School of Chemical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar. He was born to Mr. Hrushikesh Biswal and Mrs. Sushama Biswal. He belongs to a small village Ramp, P.O: Bari, Dist.: Jajpur, Odisha, India. After finishing his high school at Krupasindhu Bidybhaban (KSBB), Bari, he moved Bhadrak College, Bhadrak where he completed his 10+2 science and BSc. He received his M.Sc. degree from the Department of Chemistry, Utkal University in 2002. He did his Ph.D. with Prof. Sanjay Wategaonkar from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, in 2009. Then he moved to Commissariat à l Energie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, Paris, France, for his first postdoctoral research with CNRS postdoctoral fellowship and worked with Prof. Michel Mons. During his second postdoc, he worked on 2D Electronic spectroscopy of photosynthetic reaction centers with Prof. Jennifer Ogilvie at the University of Michigan (UoM), Ann Arbor, USA. He joined the School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) at NISER, Bhubaneswar, in 2012. He loves to teach chemistry. He involves in building scientific instruments. His current research interests include solvation and isomerization of peptides, conformational landscape of flexible biomolecules in jet-cooled condition, sulfur/selenium/carbon center hydrogen bonds and their role in the structure and function of biomolecules. He is passionate about poetry and occasionally writes short odia poems.

• Post Doctoral Associate: (2011 - 2012) with Prof. Jennifer Ogilvie, University of Michigan (UoM), Michigan, USA

• Post Doctoral Associate: (2009 - 2011) with Prof. Michel Mons, Commissariat à l´Énergie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France

• Ph.D. (2003-2009) with Prof. Sanjay Wategaonkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India

• MSc. (2000 - 2002) with Organic Chemistry Specialization from Utkal University, Vanivihar, Bhubaneswar, India

• BSc. (1997-2000) with Chemistry Hons. from Bhadrak College, Bhadrak, India.

• 2022 - Present: Professor at School of Chemical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswar

• 2018 - 2022: Associate Professor at School of Chemical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswar

• 2015 - 2018: Reader-F at School of Chemical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswar

• 2014 - 2015: Assistant Professor at School of Chemical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswa

• 2012 - 2014: DST INSPIRE Faculty at School of Chemical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneswar

Students' achievements and accomplishments are my awards.

• Affiliated Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of India

• Indian Association of Chemistry Teachers

• Indian Society of Atomic and Molecular Physics

• Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences

• Orissa Chemical Society

• Indian Science Congress Association

Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Chemical Communications, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Chemistry- A European Journal, ChemPhysChem, J. Phys. Chem. A, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, RSC Advances, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letter, Spectrochimica Acta, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Journal of Chemical Science, Current Science, ACS Omega, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Sulfur Chemistry, QRB Discovery, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, Polyhedron, Scientific Reports, Environmental Science & Technology, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Chemistry Select

I love to read literature books. In my leisure time I write Odia poems. Here are few of them