Dr. Pradip Kumar Chakraborty

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor (2018 - present): Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
Senior Researcher (2017 - 2018): Condensed Matter and Interfaces group, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Research, Department of Chemistry, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Research Collaborator (2016 - 2017): School of Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Swiss National Science Foundation (Early and Advanced) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013 - 2016): Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Education

Ph.D. (2013), Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Master of Science (M.S.) (2007), Chemical Science Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Academic Honours, Awards and Students' Achievement

PhD student, Mousumi Dutta won the best poster award at the prestigious International Conference in Coordination Chemistry (ICCC- 2024) held in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Postdoc, Dr. Prabir Ghosh won the best poster award in Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM 2023) conference held in Tokyo, Japan.
Postdoc, Dr. Ajana Dutta won the prestigious CSIR RA fellowship.
PhD student, Anshika Bansal won the prestigious Prime Minister Research Fellowship.
Member of the International Scientific Committee for the Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism (ACMM) .
Early Career Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (a journal by Royal Society of Chemistry with an Impact Factor 7)
Core Research Grant Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, India, 2023
Certificate of Appreciation from the American Chemical Society (ACS) as a peer reviewer, 2023
Certificate of Appreciation from the American Chemical Society (ACS) as a peer reviewer
DST-DAAD Indo-German joint collaborative project award with Prof. Birgit Weber, Universität Bayreuth, Germany, 2022 (She has moved to Friedrich Schiller University Jena).
Royal-Society International Exchange Award with Prof. Malcolm Halcrow, University of Leeds, UK, 2020, Royal Society London, UK.
Early Career Research Award, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, India, 2019.
Faculty Research Initiation Grant award, Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development, 2018.
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Advanced postdoctoral research, 2015
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Early postdoctoral research, 2013
Selected as finalist (among one of the 45 finalists selected globally) for the Elsevier Reaxys International PhD prize in Chemistry, 2013
Recipient of Indian Institute of Science Integrated Ph.D. Fellowship, 2004-2007
Recipient of National Merit Certificate in High School: 2000

Selected Invited Talks and Visit (after joining IIT Kharagpur)

Invited talk, Pacifichem 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 2025
Invited talk, 10th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC 10), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2025.
Invited talk, “1st International Conference on Molecular Spin Qubits toward Quantum Computer and Sensor” (ICMSQ2025), Sendai, Japan, June 2025.
Invited talk, Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM) Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, May 2025.
Invited talk, 4th International Conference on Modern Trends in Molecular Magnetism, IISc Bangalore, India, November 2024.
Invited talk, Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism, Busan, South Korea, Sept 2024.
Rising Star Symposium invited talk, International Conference on Spin Transition, Kumamoto, Japan, Dec 2023
Invited talk in Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM) Conference, University of Tokyo, Japan, Nov 2023.
Academic visitor (as a part of DST-DAAD project award), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, October-November 2023.
Academic visitor, Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, January 2023.
Invited Speaker, Spin in Molecules-Theory and Applications, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 2022.
Academic visitor, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK, July 2022 (as a part of Royal-Society International Exchange Award, Royal Society London, UK, 2020
Invited talk, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds, UK, July 2022
Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK, July 2022
Invited speaker, Spin in Molecules-Theory and Applications, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 2019
Invited contributed talk at Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM) Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, May 2019
Indo-Japan meeting and International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India, September 2018

Sanctioned/submitted Projects

Mentoring Experience since 2018

Master Students: 18;
Ph.D. Students: 10 (including one PMRF),
Postdocs: 2, 1-NPDF (with Prof. Suman Chakraborty, IITKGP), 1- CSIR RA (with Prof. Dipak Kumar Goswami, IITKGP);
Two students will be graduating by summer 2025.

Teaching

First year undergraduate Theory and lab course on Inorganic Chemistry
Light-induced Phenomena in Materials (CY61039)
Solid State Chemistry (CY50033)
Instrumental Methods of Analysis (CY40207)

International Symposium Organization

Convener: 1st International conference on "Advances in Functional Solids (AFS 2024)”, 9-12 November, 2024, Website
Convener: International Conference, “Modern Trends in Molecular Magnetism”, 11-14 December, 2022, Website Flyer
Convener: One day Symposium on “Recent Advances in Molecular Magnetism”, 26th November 2019, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur.

Professional Memberships, Other Professional Activities and Academic Responsibility

National Social Service (NSS) Program Officer (Unit 10), IIT Kharagpur, India
Reviewer: Applied Physics Letters, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Crystal Growth and Design, Dalton Transactions, Materials Advances, Appl. Physics Review
Member of the “Reaxys Prize Club Guidance Team”-Elsevier Reaxys: 2014 and 2015
Member of the Swiss Chemical Society: 2009-2013
Since 2016: Member of “UW Alumni”, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Since 2013: Member of “Alumni UNIGE”, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2009-2013: Member of the Swiss Chemical Society
Since 2007: Member of “Alumni IISc”, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Faculty Advisor, first year undergraduate chemistry students (2021 batch)
First year undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry theory and lab Coordinator
Professor-in-charge for Chemistry Department Powder XRD facility and Co Professor-in charge for VSM facility at the central research facility of the Institute
Doctoral Scrutiny Committee member in the Department of Chemistry and Physics (for Ph.D. students)

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