Professional Biography/Short Summary
Academic Qualifications & Degrees
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Ph.D, (Advisor: Prof. C.N.R. Rao), Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, May 2012, (2009 – 2012)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Masters of Science (Chemistry; C.G.P.A: 7.0/8.0), (Advisor: Prof. C.N.R. Rao), Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, (2006 –2009)
- Jadavpur University Kolkata, India Bachelor of Science (Chemistry Hons.,73 %), Department of Chemistry, (2003 - 2006)
Professional Experience:
- Assistant Professor (Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences at JIS Institute of Advanced Studies & Research (JISIASR), JIS University, Kolkata) (August 2023-Till Date)
- Visiting Faculty (Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur) Howrah, India (July 2023)
- Visiting Faculty (Scottish Church College, Kolkata) Kolkata, India (February 2023- June 2023)
- Visiting Faculty (Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur) Howrah, India (September 2022- January 2023)
- R & D Mentor (Writebox) (September 2021- August 2022)
- R & D Scientist III at Macdermid Alpha Electronic Solutions (MAES), MAES
India Research Center (Jan 2014 – August 2021)
- Post-doctoral Research Associate (Advisor: Prof. Don Seo), Department of
Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, US (2012 – 2013)
- Research Associate (Advisor: Prof. C.N.R. Rao), Solid State and Structural
Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (2012)
Achievements & Awards:
- Selected to attend the “JSPS-DST Asia Academic Seminar-2009”, Yokohama, Japan, December (2009)
- Excellent grade (8/8) for M. S. project & 2nd Rank holder in M. S. (Chemistry) (2009)
- Best poster award, JNC Research Conference on Chemistry of Materials, Allepy, India, September (2008)
- Awarded with prestigious “IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship” in 2024
- Awarded with “Indian Photobiology Society Research Excellence Award” in 2025
- Awarded with “JIS Innovation Award 2025” in the “Research Guidance” & “Patent” Category
Research Interests:
Structure-property-co-relationship of Graphene-based composite materials for energy research:
Graphene, the two-dimensional (2D) nano-allotropes of carbon consisting of single-layer of sp2 carbon atoms have drawn tremendous attention in academic as well as industrial R & D in last more than one decade or so; due to its’ unique properties such as high surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, superior thermal & mechanical strength and related properties. Interestingly, in recent days assembly of 2D graphene sheets into high-surface area hollow spheres has drawn again significant attraction of this wonder material due to its’ potential eligibility in the broader application areas ranging from catalyst support to drug-delivery and specially major emphasis in the field of energy storage where fabricating electrode materials with graphene for energy storage devices such as super capacitors and batteries has become a major thrust in this research area and great amount of attentions have been employed in this particular research field is also on the possibility of assembly of 2D graphene sheets into hollow spheres for developing core/shell structure composites also for this particular applications. In this proposed research plan; micro-structural, functional aspects as well as potential usage of these Graphene-based composite materials in energy storage devices will be explored in great details
Metal-organic/organo-metallic precursor based electronics materials development:
Fabrication of Graphene & allied 2-D advanced materials based product development for electronics industry
Commendable mechanical properties namely Elastic modulus, Hardness along with superior in-plane thermal conductivity of Graphene & related 2-D advanced materials can be potentially leveraged for the development of flexible, mechanically strong polymer composite materials for effective heat dissipation while electronics gadgets are in use. These advanced materials-polymer composite based thermal management materials has certain assembly and end-user usage advantages over conventional metallic thermal management materials used for this purpose in electronic gadgets; will be explored and studied in great detail in this proposed research sketch.