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

• International Conference on Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Optical Spectroscopy (UNOOS), IISER Mohali, December 10 - 12, 2024. Invited talk 0n "Ultrafast Spectroscopic Characterization of Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d Metal Complexes." 

• 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC) 2024, Agra, India, July 14 - 18, 2024. Oral presentation on "Achieving Record MLCT Lifetime in Cr(0) Complexes and Their Applications in Red Light Driven Catalysis."

• 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.”