Graduate Students

Animesh Das

IISER K Senior Research Fellow

07/2019-12/2024


Email Id: ad19rs074@gmail.com

BS-MS: IISER Kolkata

Research Interest:Metal Catalysed C-H Activation 

Ayan Jati

CSIR Senior Research Fellow

07/2019-12/2024


Email Id: ayanjati@gmail.com

M.Sc. IIEST Shibpur

Research Interest: Heterogeneous Catalysis for C-H Bond Functionaliation

Koushik Sarkar

CSIR Senior Research Fellow

07/2018-05/2024

Email Id: koushiksarkar730@gmail.com

M.Sc.: North Bengal University

Research Interest: Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation Reactions

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, Ben Gurion University  of the Negev, Israel.

Supervisor: Prof. Gabriel N. Lemcoff (Dean of Faculty of Science)

Pramod Kumar

CSIR Senior Research Fellow

07/2018-03/2024

Email Id: kumarpramod.raj@gmail.com

M.Sc.: Pondicherry University

Research Interest: Heterogeneous Catalysis

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, Comenius University, Batislava, Slovakia

Supervisor: Prof. Martin Putala

Kakoli Maji 

IISER K Senior Research Fellow

01/2018-03/2024

Email Id: kakoli.kulti@gmail.com

B.Sc.: Burdwan University

Research Interest: Photoredox Catalysis, Cobalt Catalysed Reaction 

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science,

Japan

Supervisor: Prof. Zhaomin Hou

Pramod Rai 

INSPIRE Senior Research Fellow

01/2018-03/2024

Email Id:pramodrai404@gmail.com

M.Sc.: Sikkim University

Research Interest: Photoredox Catalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, University of Texas at Dallas

Supervisor: Prof. Vladimir Gevorgyan

Dr. Pradip R. Thorve

UGC Research Fellow

12/2017-05/2023

Thesis Title: Amine oxidase inspired catalysis: Application towards the synthesis of olefins and N-heteroarenes

Current Position: Post-doc Fellow, Chung Ang University

Supervisor:  Prof. Kyungsoo Oh

Dr. Kuhali Das

CSIR Research Fellow

07/2017-10/2022

Thesis Title: The development of phosphine-free manganese complexes and their application in catalytic hydrogen transfer and hydroelementation reactions

Current Position: University of Cambridge

Supervisor: Dr. Pawel Dydio

Dr. Satyadeep Waiba

CSIR Research Fellow

07/2017-07/2022 

Thesis Title: First Row Transition Metal Catalyzed (de)Hydrogenation Reactions

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, University of Bayreuth

Supervisor: Dr. Shoubhik Das

Dr. Akash Jana

CSIR Research Fellow

10/2016-12/2021 

Thesis Title: Development of Manganese Catalyst for Transfer De(Hydrogenation) Reactions

Current Position: Post-Doc Fellow, OIST Japan

Post Doctoral Fellow

Phd: CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad;

Post-Doc: Hanyang University, Utrecht University 

Current position: Senior Scientist in Zubilant

Research Interest:  Organometallic Catalysis

Dr. Milan Kumar Barman

SERB N-PDF

04/2017-02/2019

Ph.D.: NISER Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Current position: Assistant Professor, Sukumar Sengupta Mahavidyalaya

Research Interest: Homogeneous Manganese Catalysis

Dr. Murali Mohan Guru

SERB N-PDF

07/2017-07/2019

PhD: IIT Guwahati

Current position: Assistant Professor, NIPER Kolkata

Research Interest: Transition Metal Catalysed C-H Activation, Asymmetric Photocatalysis, Metal Free Catalysis

Dr. Anjan Das

SERB N-PDF

08/2017-05/2018

PhD: CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujarat

Current Position: Newton Post-Doc Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK

Researcg Interest: Asymmetric Photoredox Catalysis

Dr. C. Bal Reddy

SERB N-PDF

07/2017-05/2019

PhD: CSIR-IBHT, Himachal Pradesh

Current Position: Associate Research Scientist, Zydus Cadila, Healthcare, Vododora

Research Interest: Homogeneous Manganese Catalysis

MS Students

Anusha Biswas

MS Project Student

BS-MS: IISER Kolkata

Research Interest: Photoredox Catalysis

Debjyoti Bhattacharjee

MS Project Student

BS-MS: IISER Kolkata

Research Interest: Mechanochemical Synthesis

Sumeet Das

MS Project Student

BS-MS: IISER Kolkata

Current Status: University of Flurida

Abhirup Sen

IISER K BS-MS

2022-2023

Current Status: Graduate Student, Purdue University, USA 

Rayan Bhattacharya

IISER K BS-MS

2022-2023

Current Status: Graduate Student, Penn State University, USA 

Suranjana Dam

IISER K BS-MS

2022-2023

Current Status: Graduate Student, University of Cincinnati, USA 

Kundan Kumar

IISER K BS-MS

2021-2022

Current Status: Gate Aspirant

Mohit Chotia

IISER K BS-MS

2021-2022

Current Status: Graduate Student, University of Wuppertal, Germany 

Sayandip Chakraborty

IISER I-PhD

2019-2022

Current Status: Graduate Student, Universite de Namur, Belgium 

Sekhar Kumar

IISER K BS-MS

2020-2021

Current Status: Graduate Student, IIT Gandhinagar 

Arijit Kundu

IISER K BS-MS

2020-2021

Current Status: CAT Aspirant

Amol Kumar

IISER K BS-MS

2019-2020

Current Status: Graduate Student, Uppsala University, Sweden 

Dibya Ranjan Sahoo

IISER K BS-MS

2019-2020

Current Status: Working at NALCO

Bubhuti Kumar

IISER K BS-MS

2018-2019

Current Status: Teacher @ Allen, Guwahati

Jacki Kumar

IISER K BS-MS

2017-2018

Current Status: UPSC Aspirant 

Visiting Student

Dibya Kanti Mal

CSIR Research Fellow

07/2021-12/2021

Research Interest: C-H Activation

Current Position: Scientist, BARC

Angshuman Palai

CSIR Research Fellow

07/2022-07/2023

Research Interest: Photoredox Catalysis

Current Position: Executive Officer, ONGC

Sanjana Nayek

Visiting Project Student

06/2023-04/2024

BS-MS: IISER Berhampur


Aleena Raju

Visiting Project Student

03/2022-05/2022

M.Sc.: VIT, Chennai

Current Status: Graduate Student, North Dakota State University

Summer Project Students

S. Samantha

Summer 2017

Sidhartha P. Bortamuli

Summer 2018

Anik Ghosh

Summer 2018

Tiyasha Das

Summer 2018

Subarna Sukanya Padhy

Summer 2019

Subhankar Mondal

Summer 2019

Sneha Dutta

Summer 2019

Prabir Sarkar

Summer 2019

Arjun Ramkishan Mule

Summer 2023

Swagata Satpathi

Summer 2023

Ritika Bhakat

Summer 2023

Sunit Chakraborty

Summer 2023

Mahavir Prasad Gupta

Summer 2024

Sukla Garain

Summer 2024

Mou Dasmahanta

Summer 2024