Education & Experience:

Dec 2023 to present : Associate Professor (Chemical Sciences), IISER Mohali.

June 2017 - Nov 2023 : Assistant Professor (Chemical Sciences), IISER Mohali.

Aug 2013 - April 2017: DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy

Research (ICER), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

2012 - June 2013: Postdoctoral Researcher at Technical University (TU) of Delft, The Netherlands

(Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ferdinand C. Grozema, Dr. Wolter Jager).

2011: Ph.D. (Organic Supramolecular Chemistry), University of Würzburg, Germany

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner).

2006: M.Sc. (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

2004: B.Sc. (Chemistry), Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

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Awards and Achievements:

• Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) of Organic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC) since 2024.

• Outstanding Peer Reviewer of Royal Society of Chemistry for 2023 (Org. Chem. Front.).

• MoE STARS Grant, Funding for 2023-26.

• Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Young Scientist Award 2022.

• SERB-POWER Grant, Funding for 2022-2025.

• Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) of ChemistrySelect (Wiley-VCH) since 2022.

• DST-SERI (Solar Energy Research Initiative) Funding for 2015-19.

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award (Chemistry) Session II, 2012, Funding for 2013-2019, DST.

• Magna-cum-Laude awarded in Ph.D, University of Würzburg, Germany, 2011.

• Qualified CSIR-NET JRF Examination, 2006.

• Qualified Joint Admission Test (JAM), 2004.

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