Abhishek Dey
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (India)
Invited Lecture
"Oxygen activation by synthetic Iron Porphyrins: Mimicking Dioxygenase, Monooxygenase and Reductase"
Abhishek obtained his undergraduate degree from the Presidency College, Calcutta and his PhD from Stanford University, CA, USA. He joined IACS in June 2009 as an Assistant Professor and is currently serving as a Professor at the same department. He is the recipient of the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award, Society of Porphyrin and Pthalocyanine Young Investigator Award and Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Emerging Investigator Award. He has been an Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Science, a CRSI Bronze medal awardee and a SERB-STAR fellow. His current area of research involves development of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable energy and clean environment. A combination of synthesis, self-assembly, spectroscopy, electrochemistry and electronic structure calculations are used to attain these research goals. He has served the international editorial advisory boards of Chemical Reviews, Chemical Communications, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and ACS Catalysis. Currently he is an associate editor of ACS Catalysis.