Professional Experience
2023-2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
supervisor: Prof. Shaama M Sharada
2017-2022
PhD in Chemistry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India
Thesis Title: Computational Studies on the Mechanism of Main-group Catalysed Reduction Reactions.
Research supervisor: Prof. Swapan K Pati
2016-2017
Project assistant
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India
Project Title: Effect of point defects on the electronic properties of TM-doped MXenes.
Research supervisor: Prof. Swapan K Pati
2014-2016
M.Sc in Chemistry (specialization in Physical chemistry)
Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan, India
M.Sc Project: Phosphorene quantum dot-fullerene nanocomposites for solar energy conversion: An unexplored inorganic- organic nanohybrid with novel photovoltaic properties.
Research supervisor: Prof. Pranab Sarkar
2011-2014
B.Sc in Chemistry
Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan, India
Scholarships and Awards
Best poster award in In-house symposium 2021, JNCASR, Bangalore, India.
Qualified for the Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), August 2019 to July 2022 from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.
Qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET), December 2016 in chemical sciences for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India (all India rank: 37).
Inspire fellowship for Ph.D. awarded by Department of Science and Technology, India.
University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit at M.Sc examination in Chemistry, 2016.
University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit at B.Sc examination in Chemistry, 2014.
Qualified Joint Admission for MSc (JAM) 2014 organised by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorke.
Collaborators
Prof. Anna K Krylov, (USC, USA)
Honghong Shi, (PNNL,USA)
Prof. Swadhin K. Mandal (IISER Kolkata, India)
Prof. Tapas K. Maji (JNCASR, Bangalore, India)
Prof. Sankar P Rath (IIT Kanpur, India)
Dr. Shabana Khan (IISER Pune, India)
Dr. Anukul Jana (TCIS Hyderabad, India)
Dr. Manab Chakravarty (BITS Pilani Hyderabad, India)
Dr. Shubhajit Das (EPFL, Switzerland)
Presentations
Poster Presentation at ACS spring 2024 "Birch Reduction of polyphenyl aromatics"
Poster Presentation at "In-House Symposium" organized by JNCASR, Bangalore (November 2021).
Oral presentation “Investigating Tetrel based neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for hydrogen activation” Theoretical Sciences Unit Day, JNCASR (August, 2021).
Poster Presentation at "In-House Symposium" organized by JNCASR, Bangalore (November 2019).
Poster presentation at Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, BITS Pilani, India (February, 2019).