ABOUT BKM

Education

2013-2019                     Ph.D., Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai, India

2011-2013         M.Sc. in Chemistry, IIT, Kanpur, India

2008-2011     B.Sc. in Chemistry, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College,                          Narendrapur, WB, India

Work Experience

2022-2024         Postdoctoral Fellow, Chong Lab, Caltech, CA, USA

2019-2022                           Postdoctoral Fellow, Selvin Lab, UIUC, IL, USA

Awards & Honors

• Sarojini Damodaran Fellowship, TIFR, India for attending the Biophysical Society Meeting, USA in 2018.

• Biophysical Society Travel Award in 2018.

• Best poster award in a conference, “International Conference on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins”, 2017, at IISER Mohali, India.

• Best poster award in a conference, “National Workshop on Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy FCS 2017”, at IIT Guwahati, India.

• Travel Award for attending an International Conference, “International Symposium on Protein Misfolding Diseases (ISPMD 2017)” from the Department of Biotechnology, India in 2017.

• Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) fellowship for being among the top 1% students in the Higher Secondary (2008) and B.Sc. (2011)) Examinations in India (2008-2013).