Professional Appointment and Experience:
Assistant Professor (Dec 2024- till date): Department of Chemistry with a joint affiliation in the Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, IIT Jammu
Assistant Professor (Dec 2022- Dec 2024): Department of Chemistry, GITAM School of Science, GITAM University, Hyderabad, India. (MURTI Faculty)
Research Associate (Nov 2021- Nov 2022): Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, USA
Academic Consultant (March 2021- Oct 2021): Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2016- Feb 2021): Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, (Koshland Fellow/Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Educations:
Ph. D. (2011- 2016): Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, Supervisor: Professor Kankan Bhattacharyya CSIR-NET Fellow, (2010, All India Rank – 16)
M.Sc. (Chemistry, 2009-2011): Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Supervisor: Professor Nilmoni Sarkar
B.Sc. (Chemistry Honors, 2006-2009): Jadavpur University
Awards and Achievements:
MURTI Faculty Fellowship (2024) from Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM)
Ramanujan Fellowship (2022) from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology, India
DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship (2020) from the Department of Science & Technology, India
Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019) from Weizmann Institute of Science.
Koshland Prize (2017) from Koshland Foundation-Weizmann Institute of Science as an exceptionally outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows.
CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (JRF, 2011-2013) and CSIR Senior Research Fellowship (SRF, 2013-2016) for doctoral studies.
National Eligibility Test (NET 2010, All India Rank - 16).
Invited Talks:
TIFR-Weizmann Interaction Meeting (TWIM-2019) at Tata Institute FR, Mumbai
The joint meeting of the Israeli Immunological Society (IIS) and the Israeli Society for Cancer Research-2019 at Tel-Aviv, Israel
Keck Biomembrane Retreat 2022 at Cornell University, USA