About Dr. Prasenjit Mondal
About Dr. Prasenjit Mondal
Prasenjit Mondal was born and grew up at Nischintapur, Hooghly, WB. He did his B.Sc from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, in 2009 (affiliated under Calcutta University) and received his M.Sc degree from IIT Bombay in 2011. Thereafter, he has pursued his PhD from IIT Bombay in 2016 under the guidance of Prof. G. K. Lahiri on “Electronic structural aspects of ruthenium complexes incorporating redox non-innocent ligands”. Thereafter, he has done few post-doc (2016-2021) from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and IISER Kolkata. His postdoctoral work was mainly on Bio-inspired Inorganic Chemistry. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at IIT Tirupati. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at Jadavpur University. His area of research interest is "Synthetic inorganic and bio-inspired catalysis including detailed mechanistic study".
Dr. Prasenjit Mondal
Department of Chemistry
IIT Tirupati, AP-517619
India
Email: prasenjit@iittp.ac.in
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor position at IIT Tirupati, AP, India
Assistant Professor position at Jadavpur University, WB, India
NPDF research fellow at IISER Kolkata, WB, India (2021, Prof. Sayam Sen Gupta)
Post-doctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2017-2020, Prof. Aidan McDoland)
Post-doctoral research associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2016, Prof. Thomas B. Rauchfuss)
Temporary junior research fellow at IIT Bombay (2011)
Education
PhD in Inorganic Chemistry (2016): IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (PhD Guide: Prof. G. K. Lahiri)
M.Sc. in Chemistry (2011): IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
B.Sc. in Chemistry honours (2009): Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (CU), Narendrapur, India
Achievements/Awards/Fellowships
Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellowship in 2021 by Humboldt foundation
Awarded NPDF-fellowship in 2020 by SERB
International travel grant for conference in 2015 by DST-SERB
Qualified National Eligibility Test, JRF, CSIR, 2011
Qualified GATE, 2011