About me

I am an Assistant Professor, working at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. My research is in the area of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. I have been working for several years in the field of Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Molecular Spectroscopy, and Applications of Machine Learning in Chemistry, Chemical Physics, and Medical Diagnosis. My current research interests are the following,

Research Interests

Chemical reaction dynamics relevant in atmospheric and astrochemistry,

Molecular spectroscopy,

Machine learning in Chemistry, Chemical Physics and Medical Diagnosis,

Big data in Chemistry and Biology,

Dynamics of small/large molecular systems in gas and condensed phase,

Microscopic study of hypersonic flow, predicting the reaction outcome,

Development of efficient computational codes for Chemistry and Chemical Physics,

Topological Data Analysis in Chemical Physics.

Work experience

DEC 2022: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

OCT 2020 – NOV 2022: INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

JAN 2017 – SEP 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. (Advisor: Professor Markus Meuwly)

AUG 2018: Visited the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.

Education

2011 – 2016: Ph.D. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India.

Thesis Title: Scattering Studies of Proton Transfer Reactions between Rare Gas Atoms

Supervisor: Professor Aditya Narayan Panda

2009 – 2011: Masters of Science with Specialization in Physical Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India.

2006 – 2009: Bachelor of Science with Honours in Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India.

2004 – 2006: Higher Secondary (10+2) in Science, West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, India.

2004: Secondary (10), West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, India.

Awards

2020: DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship 2019

2011: Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)

2011: National Eligibility Test (NET)

Students supervised

2022-2023 Uddeshya Pandey, Master Thesis student, IISER Tirupati

2021-2022 Arya Krishna T., Master Thesis student, IISER Tirupati

2020 Julian Arnold, Master student, University of Basel

2020 Miriam Stuke, Master student, University of Basel