Associate Professor
EMBO Global Investigator
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
Phone : +91-80-22933002
Email: debasisdas@iisc.ac.in
Associate Professor
2025-present Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, IndiaAssistant Professor
2019-2024 Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, IndiaPostdoctoral Associate
2014-2018 Department of Biology and Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA Advisor: Prof. Barbara ImperialiPh.D.
2008-2013 Chemical Biology specialization, Department of Chemistry University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Advisor: Prof. Neil MarshM.S.
2008-2011 Chemical Biology specialization, Department of Chemistry University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Advisor: Prof. Neil Marsh 2005-2008 Division of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India Advisor: Prof. G. MugeshB.Sc.
2002-2005 Chemistry, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, IndiaAwards and Achievements
17. ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science Award in Biocatalysis 2025
16. Graeme Hanson AsBIC Early Career Award, 2024 15. IISc Teaching Award, 202414. IISc Research Award, 2024
13. EMBO Global Investigor, 202312. Offered a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India 201811. Offered a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal, India 201810. Offered a position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali, India 20189. Offered a position of Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India 20188. Postdoc Travel Award by Department of Biology, MIT, USA 20177. Excellence in Research Award by the Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, USA 20136. Rackham International Travel Award, University of Michigan, USA 20125. Rackham International Travel Award, University of Michigan, USA 20114. Junior Research Fellowship by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 20073. Indian Institute of Science Fellowship, Bangalore, India 20052. Selected for M.Sc. program at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, 2005 1. Secured 10th rank in the B.Sc. examination, 2005 in Chemistry from Calcutta University, India, 2005Invited Talks
42. IPC In-house Symposium, IISc, Bangalore, India 202541. Catalysis Club, IISc Bangalore, India, 202540. SPS March Meeting, JNU, India, 202539. Chemical Biology Symposium, JNCASR, Bangalore, India, 202538. St. Joseph's University, Bangalore, India, 202537. AsBIC Award Lecture at Guilin, China, 202436. New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE, 202435. Aarhus University, Denmark, 2024 34. 60th EMBO Anniversary Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany, 202433. FORCE-IISC conference, Alappuzha, India, 2024 32. Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal, India, 202431. Global Investigator Network Meeting, NTU, Singapore, 202430. International Conference in Catalysis, IACS, Kolkata, India, 202429. ACCC9 conference, Thailand, 202428. SABIC 2024 conference, Kolkata, India, 202427. ASNP-KNUT conference, South Korea, 202326. Chung Ang University, South Korea, 202325. ICBIC conference, Australia, 202324. IISER Berhampur, India, 202323. St. Joseph's University, Bangalore, India, 202322. Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XIX) conference, India, 2022 21. Syngene International Limited, India, 202220. FORCE-IISC conference, Agra, India, 202219. Bangalore University, India, 202218. Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai, India, 201917. Department of Biochemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India, 201816. Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India, 201815. New Chemistry Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore, India, 201814. Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali, India, 201813. Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal, India, 201812. Department of Biological Sciences, IACS, Kolkata, India, 2018 11. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata, India, 2018 10. Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2018 9. Department of Biological Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, India, 2018 8. School of Basic Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, India, 2018 7. Super-group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, 20176. Department of Biology Retreat, MIT, USA, 20165. Department of Biology and Department of Chemistry, MIT, USA, 20144. The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), La Jolla, USA, 2014 3. Joint Bio-Energy Institute (JBEI)/Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Emeryville, USA, 20142. Direct-fuel Consortium, Mikulov, Czech Republic, 20121. Direct-fuel Consortium, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2011Teaching
11. Instructor, Undergraduate Basic Inorganic Chemistry (UC103T), IISc, Bangalore, Winter 202410. Instructor, Undergraduate Basic Inorganic Chemistry (UC103T), IISc, Bangalore, Winter 20239. Instructor, Undergraduate Basic Inorganic Chemistry (UC103T), IISc, Bangalore, Winter 20228. Instructor, Undergraduate Basic Inorganic Chemistry (UC103T), IISc, Bangalore, Winter 20217. Instructor, Undergraduate Basic Inorganic Chemistry (UC103), IISc, Bangalore, Winter 20206. Instructor, Undergraduate Basic Inorganic Chemistry (UC103), IISc, Bangalore, Winter 20195. Teaching assistant for undergraduate Biochemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Winter 2010 4. Teaching assistant for undergraduate Organic Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Fall 20093. Teaching assistant for undergraduate Advanced Organic Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Spring 2009 2. Teaching assistant for undergraduate Advanced Organic Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Winter 2009 1. Teaching assistant for undergraduate General Chemistry, University of Michigan, Fall 2008 Ann Arbor, USA, Fall 2008