CKH
Dr. Chinmoy Kumar Hazra is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. This was followed by his first independent position (Assistant Professor) at the department of chemistry, IIT Delhi (03/2019-07/2023). Prior to this, he worked as a postdoctoral scientist under the supervision of Prof. Magnus Rueping at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). He completed his 2nd postdoctoral assignment with Prof. Sukbok Chang at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (South Korea). He also stayed at the Université de Strasbourg, ECPM (France) for a postdoctoral experience with Prof. Françoise Colobert. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany) in 2013 (Prof. Martin Oestreich) and his M.Sc. degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai in 2010. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India in 2007. His research interests include the development of metal-free catalysis with mechanistic understanding and synthetic applications.
Academic Background
Ph.D (2013): With Prof. Martin Oestreich at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2010-11), Technische Universität Berlin (2011-13), Germany.
M.Sc (2010): From Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India where he worked under the supervision of Prof. I. N. N. Namboothiri.
B.Sc (2007): In Chemistry (Honors) from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India.
Professional Experiences
July, 2023 – Present: Associate professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India.
March, 2019 – July, 2023: Assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India.
2018 – 2019: Postdoctoral Associate, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with Prof. Magnus Rueping.
2014 – 2018: Postdoctoral Associate, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea with Prof. Sukbok Chang.
2013 – 2014: Postdoctoral Associate, Université de Strasbourg, ECPM, France with Prof. Françoise Colobert.
2009: Summer Project at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics under Prof. Soumen Basak.
Awards and Fellowships
August 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra received a Sponsored Grant (Approved grant: Rs. 40,000,00/-) from Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
July 2023: Dr. Hazra joined Chemistry Department, IIT Delhi as an Associate Professor.
June 2023: Dr. Hazra's Angewandte Author Profile was published. Thanks to Angew Chem for this great opportunity.
2023: Guest editor of Organometallic Chemistry Journal.
2023: Prof. Hazra has been selected as one of Thieme Chemistry Journals Awardees for the year 2023. Prof. Hazra is one of the 86 young investigators around the world selected by the editors of SYNTHESIS, SYNLETT, SYNFACTS, SynOpen and Organic Materials as well as Thieme for significant contributions in the field of Chemistry.
2022: Awarded FIRP grant (Rs. 5,00,000) from Industrial Research & Development Unit (Iris), IIT Delhi.
2021: Awarded Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Grant (Rs. 24,90,000) from Govt. Of India.
2019: Awarded Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, Matching Equipment Grant (Rs. 24,00,000).
2019: Awarded DST-SRG Grant (Rs. 30,00,000) from SERB, Govt. of India.
2019: Awarded Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship (Rs. 20,00,000) from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi,.
2018: Awarded KAUST Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2017: Awarded KAIST Post-Doctoral Fellowship from South Korea.
2016: Awarded Excellent Poster Presentation from 2nd IBS-SRC Symposium, South Korea.
2014: Awarded IBS Post-Doctoral Fellowship from South Korea.
2013: Awarded FRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship from University of Strasbourg, France.
2010: Awarded Ph.D. fellowship from NRW state government, Germany.
2010: Called for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) Fellowship Conducted in Lucknow, India.
2009: Qualified NET in Chemical Sciences Conducted by CSIR, India (A.I.R 34 out of 790).
2009: Qualified All India GATE in Chemistry with 98.9 percentile (A.I.R 72 out of 6916).
2008: Received Merit-cum-Means scholarship from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
2008: Qualified Joint Admission Test to M.Sc. in Chemistry (A.I.R 40 out of 2439).
Invited Lectures
Sept. 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra presented an invited talk on 'Organocatalytic Transformation of Feedstock Molecules to Value-Added Products and its Mechanistic Investigation' organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay .
Sept. 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra delivered an invited talk on 'Organocatalytic Transformation of Feedstock Molecules to Value-Added Products and its Mechanistic Investigation' organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumba
August 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra delivered a lecture at the NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Hansraj College (Delhi University)
August 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra delivered an online lecture on 'Organocatalytic Transformation of Feedstock Molecules to Value-Added Products and its Mechanistic Investigation' organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Amity University.
April 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra delivered a talk on 'Organocatalytic Transformation of Feedstock Molecules to Value-Added Products and its Mechanistic Investigation' organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University.
April 2023: Dr. Hazra delivered an interesting presentation on 'Career/Research opportunities' organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, HNB Garhwal University, Uttarakhand.
April 2023: Dr. Chinmoy Hazra delivered a special lecture on 'Organocatalytic Transformation of Feedstock Molecules to Value-Added Products and its Mechanistic Investigation' organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Dyal Singh College, New Delhi.
Feb. 2023: Dr. Hazra delivered a Flash Presentation at the XXII NOST - Organic Chemistry Conference, Aurangabad, India.
09/2022: Distinguished Speaker, organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, St. Stephen's College, India.
10/2020: Invited Speaker, NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Manipur, India.
10/2020: Invited Speaker, NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY organized by the Dept. of Chemistry, Mercy College, Kerala, India.
09/2020: Invited Speaker, NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY organized by the Jabalpur Engineering College, MP, India.
08/2020: Invited Speaker, NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY Organized by Dept. Of Chemical Engineering, St. Joseph’s college of engineering, Chennai, India.
07/2020: Distinguished Speaker, NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY, Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata, India.
06/2020: Distinguished Speaker, NATIONAL WEBINAR IN CHEMISTRY, Don Bosco College, Tura, Meghalaya, India.
06/2020: Invited talk (virtual talk), 4th National Symposium, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India.
01/2020: Distinguished Speaker, Vidyasagar University, India.
01/2020: Invited Speaker, International Conference on Chemistry for Human Development (ICCHD), Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.
05/2019: Special lecture, National Institute of Technology, Manipur, India.
10/2018: Distinguished Speaker, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India.
02/2017: Invited talk, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
02/2017: Invited talk, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, West Bengal, India.
01/2017: Invited talk, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India.
Conference Presentations
01/2018: Poster Presentation in the Workshop of CCHF, KAIST, South Korea.
12/2017: Poster Presentation in the 5th Workshop of CCHF, KAIST, South Korea.
07/2017: Participation in the Perspectives on Organometallics in Organic Synthesis, KAIST, South Korea.
06/2017: Poster Presentation in the OMCOS-19, IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, Jeju, South Korea.
12/2016: Poster Presentation in the 2nd IBS-SRC Joint Symposium, KAIST, South Korea.
11/2015: Poster Presentation in the 4th Workshop of IBS, Mujo, South Korea.
08/2015: Poster Presentation in 48th IUPAC General Assembly and 45th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, BEXCO, Busan, South Korea.
03/2013: Participation in 125th Angewandte Anniversary Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
09/2012: Conference of the Liebig-Vereinigung für Organische Chemie, ORCHEM 2012, Germany.
04/2010: 1st Münster Symposium on Cooperative Effects in Chemistry, Münster, Germany.