Scholarships and Awards

•  International Travel Grant awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board, India, 2017

• Wiley JCC/IJQC award for best poster presentation at Asia-Pacific conference in theoretical and computational chemistry (APCTCC8), Mumbai, India, 2017

• Best poster award in International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM)-JNCASR school on clean and renewable energy technologies via chemical routes, 2017

• Best poster award in  JNCASR Annual In-House Symposium, Bangalore, India, 2016

• Best poster award in 'Chemistry of Materials' conference in Kerala , India, 2016

• University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit at M.Sc examination in Chemistry, 2013

• Prof. M. N. Das Medal for standing first in order of merit in physical chemistry section at M.Sc examination in Chemistry, 2013 

• Joint five years research fellowship and lifetime lectureship award (all India rank 33) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, 2013 

• All India Rank 07 in Graduate Aptitude Test Engineering (GATE) in Chemistry, 2013 

• University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit at B.Sc examination in Chemistry, 2011 

• Five years INSPIRE scholarship awarded by Department of Science and Technology, India, 2008

Present collaborators

•  Paul Dyson (EPFL)

• Raffaella Buonsanti (EPFL, Switzerland)

• Walter Leitner

• Christophe Werle

• Subi J George (JNCASR)

• T. Govindraju (JNCASR)

• Prof. Sebastian C Peter (JNCASR)

• Prof. T K Maji (JNCASR)

• Prof. Anukul Jana (TCIS Hyderabad)

• Dr. Shabana Khan (IISER Pune)

• Prof. Jiten K Bera (IIT Kanpur)

• Prof. Herbert Roesky (University of Gottingen)

• Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti (EPFL, Switzerland)

Presentations

Oral

• “Mechanistic Insights into Catalytic Hydrogenation using Frustrated N/Sn Lewis Pairs”, Annual Symposium, JNCASR (November, 2017)

• “Hydrogen Activation by Tin(IV)-based Frustrated Lewis Pairs”, Theoretical Science Unit Day, JNCASR (August, 2017)

• “On the Mechanism of Frustrated Lewis Pair-Catalysed Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Compounds”, New Chemistry Unit Day, JNCASR (March, 2017)

• “The Essential Role of Charge-Shift Bonding in Hypervalent Prototype XeF2 ”, Departmental seminar, New Chemistry Unit, JNCASR (August, 2015) 

• “Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Novel Reactivity and Mechanism”, Departmental seminar, New Chemistry Unit, JNCASR (April, 2015)

Poster

• Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) Fall Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland (September, 2019)

• Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APCTCC8), Mumbai, India (December, 2017)

• International Institute of Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM)-JNCASR school on Clean and Renewable Energy Technologies via Chemical Routes, Bangalore, India (November, 2017)

• 11th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Munich, Germany (August, 2017) 

• Recent Advances in Many Electron Theory, Goa, India (February, 2017)

• JNCASR Annual In-House Symposium, Bangalore, India, 2016

• 'Chemistry of Materials' conference in Kerala , India, 2016 

• Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Hyderabad, India (December, 2016) 

• Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Kerala, India (October, 2015)

• Theoretical Chemistry Symposium, Pune, India (December, 2014)