Debdas Dhabal

Academic Profile

• Sept. 2023 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam-781039, India

• June 2020 - Aug. 2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA, Advisor: Prof. Valeria Molinero 

• Dec. 2017 - May 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, Advisor: Dr. Amish J. Patel 

• Aug. 2011 - May 2017: Ph. D., Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, Advisors: Late Prof. Charusita Chakravarty and Dr. Hemant K. Kashyap, Co-advisor: Prof. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy (JNU, New Delhi) 

• July 2009 - July 2011: M. Sc., Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, Project Advisor: Prof. Charusita Chakravarty

• June 2006 - May 2009: B. Sc., Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

Awards and Fellowships

• 2023-2025: Young CAS Fellow from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway 

• 2023: Trusted Reviewer Status by IOP in recognition of an exceptionally high level of peer review competency.

• 2022: Distinction in Doctoral Research Award for 2017: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

• 2022: Review Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry "Theoretical and Computational Chemistry" Section.

• 2021: DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award: Department of Science and Technology, India. Field: “Chemical Sciences". 

• 2014: Best Poster Award, Conference: “Dynamics of Complex Chemical & Biological Systems (DCCBS14)”, IIT Kanpur, India.

• 2012: Qualified National Eligibility Test combined CSIR-UGC (All India rank-58).

• 2011: Qualified National Eligibility Test combined CSIR-UGC (All India rank-440).

• 2011: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (Chemistry).

• 2010: Merit-cum-means Scholarship during M.Sc. at IIT Delhi.

• 2009: Qualified JAM-2009 in Chemistry (All India rank-141).

Academic Responsibilities 

• 2025: Convener, One-day symposium celebrating 30 years of Chemistry @IIT Guwahati, 8 March 2025 

Journal Reviewer 

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (21) | Nature Physics (3) | Scientific Reports (3) | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (4) Nature Communications (4) | Physical Review B (4) | Physical Review letters (4) | Physical Review E (2) | The Journal of Chemical Physics (5) | Journal of Applied Physics (1) | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (4) | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2) | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (1) | Langmuir (2) | Journal of Physical Chemistry B (4) | Crystal Growth & Design (1) | Journal of Computational Chemistry (1) | The Chemical Record (2) | Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (4) | Journal of Molecular Liquids (1) | Journal of Non-crystalline Solids. (1) | Journal of Solution Chemistry (1) | Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A (1) | Physical Biology (1) | New Journal of Phys. (1) | Frontiers in Chemistry (1) | Elsevier Book Chapter (1) | Physica Scripta (1) | Material Research Express (3) | International communications in heat and mass transfer (1) | Separation and Purification Technology (2) | Discover Chemistry (1) | Frontiers in Nanotechnology (1)