Associate Professor, IIT-Hyderabad September 2023-
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad July 2017-
Research Associate, Northwestern University, USA, January 2016-June 2017
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, USA November 2011-December, 2015
Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur May 2011- October 2011
Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur October 2005-March, 2011
Master's student, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University 2001-2003
2017 Funded place in UK-India Newton Researcher Links Workshop-IIT-Kanpur (not availed)
2016 Travel Award, Gordon Research Seminar, USA
2011 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Award-First Prize
2007 CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship, India
2006 Ranked among top 20% JRF-NET awardees for the year 2005
2005 CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET)
2004 CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET)
Research Associate, Northwestern University, USA
Advisor: Prof. Frederick D. Lewis
Continued working on DNA charge transport studies. Current focus is on exploring new chromophore(s) and non-natural base analogues for better efficiency.
Post doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, USA
Advisor: Prof. Frederick D. Lewis
Research focus on investigating dynamic and mechanism of photoinduced charge transport in DNA. Explored the effect of non-aqueous environment around DNA; use of diphenylacetylene as hole-donor to observe the spectroscopic evidence for the elusive hole-carriers, etc. Work involves synthesis of organic donor/acceptor, solid-phase DNA synthesis, purification, characterization and their transient spectroscopic studies
Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur
Advisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma
This short tenure exposed me to the synthetic methodology used to synthesize short peptide motifs and their morphological investigation.
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur
Advisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma
Thesis Title: Scalable structural complexities in metal-adenine interactions
Research focus on chemical modification(s) around purine skeleton to investigate their metal ion interactions, especially with coinage metal ions. Judicially designed analogues resulted in examples of unprecedented supra-molecular architectures and rare coordination modes for adenine. Potential applications such as catalytic phenol oxidation and DNA cleavage; selective metal sensing, facile deposition onto surface and paramagnetic behavior of a decanuclear copper motif, establishes the versatile utility of these constructs.