Current position

Postdoctoral researcher (March 2023 - till date)

Research group of Prof. Manfred Kappes

Institute of Physical Chemistry

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Previous Experiences

Alexander von-Humboldt postdoctoral researcher (March 2021 - February 2023)

Host: Prof. Manfred Kappes and Prof. Horst Hahn

Institute of Nanotechnology and Institute of Physical Chemistry

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Guest Scientist (November 2020 - February 2021)

Research group of Prof. Manfred Kappes and Prof. Horst Hahn

Institute of Nanotechnology 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Senior project officer (April 2020 - October 2021)

Research group of Prof. T Pradeep

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600 036

Postdoctoral researcher (November 2019 - March 2020)

Research group of Prof. T Pradeep

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Madras,

Chennai 600 036

Institute postdoctoral fellow (May 2019 - October 2019)

Research group of Prof. T Pradeep

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Madras,

Chennai 600 036

EDUCAtion

Doctor of Philosophy, Ph. D. (July 2015- July 2019)

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 

Chennai 600 036

Supervisor: Prof. T. Pradeep

Thesis: Chemical interactions of noble metal nanoclusters: Dynamics, aggregation and supramolecular complexation 

Masters (M. Sc.)

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700 032

Specialization: Physical Chemistry

Bachelors (B. Sc.) 

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700 032

Honours: Chemistry

Research interesTs

• Mass spectrometry of metal clusters, macrocyclic molecules, weakly bound non-covalent complexes

• Ion mobility mass spectrometry

• Physical chemistry of nanoscale materials

• Supramolecular chemistry

INStrumental skills

• Travelling wave ion mobility mass spectrometer:  Waters SYNAPT G2-Si 

• Trapped ion mobility mass spectrometer: Bruker TimsTOF 

• Waters cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometer 

• Thermo LTQ XL orbitrap 

• 3200 QTRAP LC/MS/MS 

• Ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)

• Fluorescence spectrometer 

• Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, ITC 200, Microcal 

Conference presentations

• Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, November 8-10, 2021, Cologne, Germany (Poster presentation)

• Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), February 8-10, 2019 CLRI, Chennai (Poster presentation)

• 13th RSC-CRSI joint symposium, February 7, 2019 (Invited lecture)

• Bengaluru India Nano, December 5-7, 2018, Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru (Poster presentation)

• Gordon Research Seminar on Noble Metal Nanoparticles (GRS), June 16-17, 2018, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States (Oral presentation)

• Gordon Research Conference on Noble Metal Nanoparticles (GRC), June 17-22, 2018, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States (Poster presentation)

• International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT), March 21-23, 2018, IISC, Bengaluru (Poster Presentation)

• Chemistry in-house symposium (CIHS), IIT Madras, Chennai, September 17, 2017, (Poster Presentation)

• Asian Academic Seminar, December 14-21, 2016, Tokyo, Japan (Oral and Poster Presentation)

Awards

• Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for postdoctoral researchers in Germany (March 2021 – February 2023)

• Prof. Langmuir Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in physical and theoretical chemistry of IIT Madras for the year 2019

• Best poster awards for the work on “Rapid isotopic exchange in nanoparticles” at CRSI, February 7-9, 2019, held at CLRI, Chennai

• Karnataka DST Nanoscience Award, December 6, 2018, at Bengaluru India Nano, held at Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru, for young researchers in the field of nanoscience

• Best poster awards for the work on “Fullerene-functionalized atomically precise silver nanoclusters” at ICONSAT, March 21-23, 2018, held at IISC, Bengaluru

• Best poster awards for the work on “Stability of monolayer protected clusters towards dissociation” at Asian Academic Seminar, December 14-21, 2016, held at Tokyo, Japan

• Jadavpur University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit in M.Sc., Chemistry (2015)

• Prof. M.N. Das memorial award of Jadavpur University for securing highest marks in physical chemistry special paper in M.Sc., Chemistry (2015)

• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE), 2015

• National Eligibility Test (NET): Ranked CSIR 51 in July, 2014

• INSPIRE Scholarship from Department of Science and Technology (DST) (2010-2015)