Other Responsibilities of Dr. Chakraborty
Along with teaching and research responsibilities, I have other responsibilities as well - which I listed below. Those experienced, would know that the workload for each responsibility in newer IITs differ quite a lot from their older counterpart. This list does not include my duties as member/chair of several doctoral committees.
Dr. Chakraborty worked as a Member of Chemical Dynamics Group (1997-2004) at the Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Dr. Chakraborty is probably the one who gave maximum number of talks and attended maximum number of talks in this group.
Dr. Chakraborty was an active Member of “Landau and Lifshitz - Electrodynamics” Reading Group’ (2005-09) at Oregon centre for optics of University of Oregon, Euegene, USA. This reading group was lead by Ptof. J. A. Cina of University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Dr. Chakraborty served as the first Sports Advisor (2010 - 2012) of the Institute & lead the institute sports team to inter-IIT sports meet held at IIT Delhi, Delhi, India.
Dr. Chakraborty served as a Member of Institute Purchase Committee (July - September, 2010 ) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty worked as Chair of Institute Colloquium Committee (2010 -11, 2013 - 14 ) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty Chaired the first Web Development Committee (2010 - 12) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty was an active Member of Institute of Theoretical Sciences (2005 - 09) of University of Oregon, USA.
Dr. Chakraborty worked as a Member of the faculty shortlisting commitee for Mathematics in School of Basic Sciences at IIT Mandi (2012-13).
Dr. Chakraborty was the first Course Coordinator of M. Sc., Chemistry (2014 - 17) – progm. of the institute. M.Sc ordinance of IIT Mandi was drafted by Dr. Chakraborty.
Dr. Chakraborty worked as a member of Library Advisory Committee of the Institute (12013 -16).
Dr. Chakraborty worked as Course Coordinator of all Institute Core Courses (2017 - 21) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty was the Faculty Adviser of M. Sc., Chemistry (2016 - 18) batch of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty served as a Member of 'B(2015 - 2021) of the institute, since it's inception.
Dr. Chakraborty served as a Member of 'Board of Academics' (2015 - 2021) of the institute, since it's inception.
Dr. Chakraborty served as a Member of Senate (2012-20) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty served as a Member of IIT System Web Portal Committee (2011 - 12).
Dr. Chakraborty served as Faculty Advisor, Alumni Affairs Society (2013-15) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty served as Chair of Class Committee Meetings for B. Tech. 2nd year courses (2012-17) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty worked as Chair of course interest group of M. Sc. Chemistry Progm. (2015-18) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty is currently a Member of course interest group of M. Sc. Chemistry progm. (2018 - 20) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty served as Member of course interest group of B. Tech. core courses (2016-17) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty worked as a Member of the faculty shortlisting commitee for Chemistry in School of Basic Sciences of the institutei (2018-19).
Dr. Chakraborty is a Member of course interest group of I-Ph. D. & M.Sc. (Physics) Courses (2016 - 2020) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty was In-Charge of establishment of B. Tech. Chemistry Laboratory (June-July 2010) of the institute. It was the first fully functional Laboratory of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty was an acting reviewer of the following journals/publishers: Phys. Rev. E, Chem. Phys. Lett, Chem. Phys., Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Phys. Lett. A, Int. J. Quant. Chem., RSC Adv., Spec. Lett., Int. J. Nanomed., Rep. Theo. Chem., J. Chem. Sci., Cambridge University Press, J. Mol. Struc., Physica Scripta & Eur. J. Phys..
Dr. Chakraborty worked as Chair of School Seminar Committee (2015-19) of School of Basic Sciences of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty is a member of National Organizing Committee for Physical & Biophysical Chemistry Conference - Theory & Experiments at IIT Bombay, India.
Dr. Chakraborty along with Ms. Moumita Ganguly worked as Local Coordinators for Salters' Chemistry Camp at the institute (4-6 July, 2017).
Dr. Chakraborty is the current Advisor of "Society for Collaborative Research & Innovation" (2018 - 2022) of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty was the Member of website committee (2018 - 2020) of School of Basic Sciences of the institute
Dr. Chakraborty was the Vice-Chair ( February, 2019 - September, 2019 ) of JEE Cell of the institute.
Dr. Chakraborty has been appointed as a member of Senate Library Committee of the institute (2020 -22).
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