Professional Details

2013-Present:

Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India.

2011-2012:

Worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institut fuer Kohlenforschung , Muelheim, Germany with Dr. Manuel Alcarazo.

2009-2011:

Worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany with Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Roesky.

April 2008-November 2008:

Senior Research Scientist, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), R&D centre, Greater Noida, India.

 

Academic Details

2003-2008:

PhD (Chemistry) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India under the supervision of Prof. Jai Deo Singh.

 

Scholastic Achievements and Awards

1. Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Organometallics

2. Received Young Scientist Award of Chemical Frontiers Conference, 2018

3. DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Fellowship (2009-2011) for post doctoral research at Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany.

4. Awarded DST (Department of Science and Technology) and CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) grants to attend international conference International Conference on Chemistry of Selenium and Tellurium (ICCST-10) Lodz, Poland, 2007.

5. Qualified NET-JRF (National Eligibility Test- Junior Research Fellowship) in 2002 conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

6. Awarded University Gold Medal for securing first position in the Dept. of Chemistry in Master of Science (M.Sc.).

7. Recipient of Fazlur-Rahman Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.Sc.

8. Awarded Merit Scholarship by the Vice-Chancellor of AMU in M.Sc.

9. Awarded Bharat Sewa Trust Merit Scholarship in Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.).

 

Invited Talks

1.Chemical Frontiers 2018, 19th-22nd August, Goa (India).

Title: Silylene as a ligand in Transition Metal Chemistry

2.International Conference On Phosphorus, Boron and Silicon – PBSi 2017, 3rd-5th July, France (Paris).

Title: The Rise, Respite, and Resurrection of Silylene (as a ligand)

3.National Conference on Recent Advancements in Chemical Sciences, MNIT Jaipur 21-23 August 2015

Title: Aurophilic Interactions and Photophysical Properties

4. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Goettingen, 3rd August 2015

Title: Phosphine, Silylene and Germylene Based PNP, SiNP and GeNP Ligand Systems and their Au(I) Complexes and Catalytic Activity

5. Safe Chemical Laboratory Practices organized by Chemical Research Society of India Pune Chapter-NCL, 3rd September 2014

Title: Fun with Chemistry