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Alok Jain, Ph.D
Advanced Biocomputing Lab,
Dept. of Bioengineering and Biotechnology,
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra,
Ranchi-835215, Jharkhand, India.
Dr. Jain is a computational biophysicist with a bachelor's in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
He has expertise in computational chemistry, structural bioinformatics, computational bio-nanotechnology, and computational biophysics. His current research interests lie primarily in identifying, designing, and optimizing drug/lead compounds using advanced computational techniques for cancer and Alzheimer's disease and designing and characterizing nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor and Ramalingaswami Fellow [July 2020 – Present]
Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, Ranchi, India
Assistant Professor and Ramalingaswami Fellow [July 2018 – June 2020]
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) Ahmedabad, India
Postdoctoral Researcher [June 2013 – June 2018]
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher [December 2012 – May 2013]
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Project Scientist [July 2012 – November 2012]
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
ACHIEVEMENTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Member, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) – Recognized in 2025 for impactful contributions to Bioscience & Biotechnology.
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (2024) – Invited to join one of Nature Portfolio’s leading journals.
Recipient, Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship (2019) – A prestigious fellowship awarded by DBT for advanced research in biotechnology.
Awardee, Vishnu Ji Ram Memorial Award (2022) – Conferred by the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists for outstanding contributions in chemical biology.
International Recognition – Awarded the Biophysical Society-USA Travel Award in 2010 for excellence in computational biophysics.
Life Member, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society– Actively contributing to India's growing computational drug discovery ecosystem.
Trajectory
Dr. Jain was born in Seoni, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, India, and completed schooling in Indore in 1997. In 2002, he completed his Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from Pt. R. S. S. University Raipur and later moved to IIT Kanpur to pursue his Master's (M.Tech) in Computational Biology. In 2012, he completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in Computational Biophysics from IIT Kanpur. He moved to Mainz, Germany, in 2012 for Postdoctorate training at the Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research. From 2013-18, he continued his postdoctoral research at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He returned to India in 2018 and joined as Assistant Professor and Ramalingaswami Fellow at NIPER-Ahmedabad. In 2020, he joined the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT Mesra), Ranchi.
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