Dr. Narayan Sinha
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Sciences, IIT Mandi
Himachal Pradesh, India
Email: narayan@iitmandi.ac.in
Professional experience
July 2023 - present: Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
May 2019 - June 2023: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland, Research supervisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver S. Wenger
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019: Postdoctoral fellow, Apr 2017-Apr 2018: Department of Chemistry, York University, Canada; May 2018-Mar 2019: Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada, Research supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael G. Organ
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017: Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Münster, Germany, Research supervisor: Prof. Dr. F. Ekkehardt Hahn
Academic records
Oct 2012 - Nov 2016: Ph.D., Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Münster, Germany.Thesis: Design, Synthesis and Postsynthetic Modifications of Metallosupramolecular Architectures Featuring Poly-NHC Ligands. Research supervisor: Prof. Dr. F. Ekkehardt Hahn
2010 - 2012: M.Sc. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India.Thesis: Binding of Protocatechualdehyde Derivatives to the C1 Domain of Novel Protein Kinase C. Research supervisor: Prof. Dr. Debasis Manna
2006 - 2010: B.Sc. with Honors in Chemistry, Haldia Government College, Vidyasagar University, India
Achievements
INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship 2020
Ph.D. Scholarship from International NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Münster, Germany.
Qualified in National Eligibility Test (NET), June 2012 for Junior Research Fellow (JRF) conducted by CSIR-UGC, India.
Qualified in National Eligibility Test (NET), June 2011 for Lectureship (LS) conducted by CSIR-UGC, India.
Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012 conducted by IITs and IISc Bangalore.
Qualified in Joint Admission Test to M.Sc. (JAM) conducted by IIT Madras in 2010.
Oral and poster presentations
5th International Conference on Functional Molecular Materials, Krakow, Poland, March 29 – 31, 2023. Oral Presentation on “Development of Abundant 3d6 Complexes with Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States.”
28. Lecture Conference on Photochemistry, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 19 – 21, 2022. Oral Presentation on “Cobalt(III) Carbene Complex with an Electronic Excited-State Structure Similar to Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Compounds.”
28th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 17 – 22, 2022. Poster Presentation on “Cobalt(III) Complex with a Long-Lived MLCT Excited State.”
Swiss Photochemistry Symposium 2022, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 17, 2022. Poster Presentation on “Combination of Strong - and -Donating Ligand Yields a Cobalt(III) Complex with a Long-Lived MLCT Excited State.”
Forschung der Chemischen Industrie symposium (Research in the Chemical Industry symposium), WWU Münster, Germany, May 12, 2016. Poster Presentation on “Synthesis of Nanometer-Sized Cylinder-Like Assemblies Featuring Tris-NHC Ligands and Their Postsynthetic Modifications via Photochemical [2+2] Cycloaddition.”
7th Münster Symposium on Cooperative Effects in Chemistry, WWU Münster, Germany, April 22, 2016. Poster Presentation on “Turn on Fluorescence in Tetraphenylethylene-Bridged Tetra-NHC Ligands by Rigidification in Organometallic Complexes: An Alternative to Aggregation-Induced Emission.”
2nd Annual Symposium of the International Research Training Group 2027, WWU Münster, Germany, October 5 – 6, 2015. Poster Presentation on “High-Fidelity Consecutive Self-Sorting Phenomena of Organometallic Molecular Cylinders Featuring Poly-NHC Ligands.”
6th Münster Symposium on Cooperative Effects in Chemistry, WWU Münster, Germany, May 8, 2015. Poster Presentation on “Single-Step Synthesis of an Organometallic Molecular Square Featuring only M‒C Bonds.”
Koordinationschemie-Tagung (Coordination Chemistry Conference), Universität Paderborn, Germany, March 22 – 24, 2015. Oral Presentation on “Metallosupramolecular Architectures featuring Poly-NHC Ligands.”