Professional Experience

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2022 – present          Assistant Professor

                               IIT Bhubaneswar

2020 – 2022              EPSRC Research Associate (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)

                               Host: Prof. Thomas Wirth

2017 – 2020              Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow (WWU Münster, Germany)

                               Host: Prof. Frank Glorius

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Education

​2012 – 2017              Ph.D. in Chemistry (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

                                Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Maiti

2009 – 2011               M.Sc. in Chemistry (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

                                M.Sc. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Goutam Kumar Lahiri

2006 – 2009              B.Sc. in Chemistry (Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira,

                                University of Calcutta)

 

Achievements and Awards

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• Best poster award in the 20th Organometallic Catalysis Directed towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 20) in Heidelberg, Germany (21-25 July, 2019).

• Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for postdoctoral research, 2017.

• Recipient of Carl Storm International Diversity (CSID) Award to attend Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Organometallic Chemistry, 2016.

• Recipient of IIT Bombay Research Paper Award, 2014 as one of the authors for the paper “Oxidative trifluoromethylation of unactivated olefins: An efficient and practical synthesis of α-trifluoromethyl ketones.”