Dr. Soumitra Maity

Dr. Maity was born and raised in contai, purba medinipur (W. B). He received his BSc in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur in 2002 and MSc in 2004 from Calcutta University. His PhD research was conducted at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Kolkata, India) and was focused on the synthesis of natural products with Prof. Subrata Ghosh. After successfully defending his PhD thesis, In the fall of 2010, he moved to USA to work with Prof. Nan Zheng at the University of Arkansas to develop new methods for the formation of C–C and C–N bonds by visible-light photoredox catalysis. After spending more than two years at Arkansas, Maity took up a 2nd postdoctoral position at UC-Berkeley to work with Prof. Thomas P. Maimone where he worked in total synthesis of natural products. In 2014 he back to India to join as INSPIRE Faculty at CSIR-CSMCRI, Gujarat. Since December 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor in the department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad.