Academic and Professional Backgrounds:
2015 - Associate Professor
2009 - 2015: Assistant Professor, IISER Pune, India
2007 - 2009: JSPS and CREST Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan. Host: Prof. Susumu Kitagawa
Ph. D. in Chemistry, 2006: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India.
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Parimal K. Bharadwaj
M. Sc. (Inorganic Chemistry), 2001, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India.
B. Sc. in Chemistry with Mathematics/Physics, 1999, Burdwan University, W.B., India.
Awards/Recognitions/Fellowships:
2015 - Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, a journal of Nature Publishing Group.
2015: IUPAC Travel Award: Busan, Korea, IUPAC-2015.
2015: Membership Award by the American Chemical Society.
2014: New Talent: Asia-Pacific by Dalton Transactions (RSC).
2013: INSA Young Scientist Award.
2013: Alkyl Amines-ICT Foundation Day Young Scientist Award.
2012: NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award.
2012-15: Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
2011: DAE Research Award for Young Scientists.
2009: Newton International Fellowship (UK), (Offer declined).
2007-09: JSPS Post Doctoral Research Fellowship (Japan).
2006 - 07: CREST Post Doctoral Research Fellowship (Japan).
2001 - 06: Junior and Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, India.