Profile

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Academics and Professional

Associate Professor (Feb 2024 - Present), Special Centre for Nano Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India
Assistant Professor (Mar 2016 - Feb 2024), Department of Chemistry, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India
DST Young Scientist (Jan 2016 - Feb 2016), IISc, Bangalore, India
Research Associate (Dec 2014 - Dec 2015), IISc, Bangalore, India
JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (May 2012 - May 2014), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
PhD in Materials Science, Chemistry (July 2007 - April 2012), JNCASR, Bangalore, India. Thesis Title: Investigations of Structure-Property Relationships in Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks
R&D Assistant (Jan 2006 - June 2007), Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India
Master of Science, Chemistry (2005), Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (2003), Karimganj College, Assam, India

Nominated as Young Scientist by Vice-Chancellor, CUH to attend IISF-2018 held in Lucknow, October 2018.
Admitted as an Associate Member of Royal Society of Chemistry, London in Sept. 2018.
Early Career Research (ECR) Grant, June 2017 from SERB, India (duration 3 years).
Start-Up Research Grant, June 2015 from Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, India (duration 3 years).
DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2018), March 2015, from UGC, India.
JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Awarded by JSPS, Japan 2012-2014.
ICAM-I2CAM Junior Travel Award for attending a Gordon Research Conference held at Holderness, NH, USA.
Poster Award in International Winter School jointly organized by JNCASR, Bangalore and University of Cambridge, UK.
Foreign Travel Grant from CSIR, India for Attending International Conference in Marseilles, France.
Awarded JRF by CSIR, Govt. of India in 2007-2008 (Senior Research Fellowship from 2009-2012).
Qualified GATE - 2007 (AIR 45, Percentile, 99.04).
Certificate of appreciation by Govt. of India for witnessing Republic Day Parade 2006 at Rajpath.
Awarded Gold Medal by Assam University, Silchar for securing 1st class 1st position in MSc Chemistry.

Regular reviewer of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Dalton Transactions, CrystEnggComm, RSC Advances.
Coordinator, UGC-NET Cell at the Central University of Haryana (Coordinating classes for around 100 students conducted by 7/8 teachers)
Coordinator, International Students Admission at the Central University of Haryana
Co-convener, Equal Opportunity Cell at the Central University of Haryana
Member for publishing information Bulletin 2019 of Central University of Haryana