Dr. Ramananda Maity

Academic Background

Assistant Professor (April 2016 to present): Department of Chemistry at University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Assistant Professor (October 2015 to April 2016): Department of Chemistry at Dibrugarh University, Assam, India.

Post-Doc (September 2015 to October 2015, Germany): Post-doctoral Fellow under Prof. Shigeyoshi Inoue at Technische Universitatät Berlin, Germany.

Post-Doc (June 2013 to August 2015, Germany): Post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Biprajit Sarkar at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

PhD (2009-2013; University of Münster, Germany): Under the guidance of Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn. The doctoral thesis work was based on orthometalated heterobimetallic complexes.

MSc (2007-2009; IIT Madras, India): Project supervisor: Prof. Dillip Kumar Chand; The M.Sc. project work was based on the synthesis of PdII complexes.

BSc (2004-2007): St. Paul’s C. M. College (University of Calcutta).

Awards & Achievements

• Early Career Research (ECR) grant from DST-SERB (2019).

• Start-Up grant from UGC, India (2017).

• Ph.D Scholarship from International NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Münster, Germany (2009).

• IITM Merit cum Means scholarship during M.Sc. at IIT Madras (2007-2009).

• Ranked 35 (99.49 percentile) in GATE 2009.

• CSIR-NET qualified in 2008.

Invited Lectures

1.  "PdII Complexes with Mixed NHC/Phosphine Ligands: Catalytic Benefits" FARC 2024, IIT Mandi.

2. "Dinuclear Complexes Bearing NHC Donor Ligands: Structural Aspects and Catalytic Applications" NMMCSN-2021, Organized by Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Orissa, India.

3. “Homo- and Heterobimetallic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Employed in Catalysis” Young Scientists Conclave 2021 Organized by Indian Chemical Society (YSC-2021), India.

4. “Diverse Applications of Carbene Intermediates” 2020, Invertis University, India.

5. “Heterobimetallic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Structure and Cooperative Tandem Catalysis“; IC-ETCS 2020, IIT Kharagpur, India.

6. “Polynuclear NHC complexes: application in cooperative catalysis” Challenges in Synthetic Chemistry and its industrial applications, 2016, NIT Rourkela, India.

Project Completed/Ongoing as PI

1.    Project Title: "Highly Efficient Heterobimetallic Palladium(II)/Copper(I) Carbene Complexes Applied in Tandem Catalysis" Funder: DSTBT; Year: 2024-contd.

2.    Project Title: “Highly Conjugated Supramolecular Organometallic Architectures Bearing Polycarbene Ligands: Redox-Activity, Cooperativity, Molecular         Hosts and Selective Organic Transformations ” Funder: DST-SERB; Year: 2019-2022.

3.    Project Title: "Heterobimetallic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes for Tandem Catalysis " Funder: UGC; Year: 2017-2019.