A LITTLE ABOUT ME

After completing my undergraduate degree from Visva Bharati (Santiniketan), I went to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati as a Masters student. During the two years of a mainly course-based Master degree I got attracted to Organometallic and Materials Chemistry. 
To gain valuable experience in international research environment at the forefront of chemistry, I successfully applied to Dr Jens Müller for PhD studies at the Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. During the five years of my PhD research, I was successful on seven research projects.  The department appreciated my ongoing success by awarding me a ‘Graduate Research Fellowship, 2011-2012’. In the fall of 2012, I successfully defended my thesis and my performance was recognized by the Gold Medal (The “Taube Medal”) for the best thesis in 2012.  
With my PhD completed, Dr. Douglas Stephan (University of Toronto, Canada) accepted my application as a postdoctoral fellow. 
In the next step of my research career, I moved to Europe to expand my international experience. My motivation to learn new chemistry and to expand my field of expertise, I joined the research group of Dr. Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In summary, my research during my PhD and postdoctoral work has been a combination of main group and transition metal chemistry focusing on the synthesis of functional small organometallic molecules and catalysis. I have gained extensive knowledge in the detailed characterization of organometallic complexes by a wide variety of analytical techniques such as multinuclear NMR, IR, mass spectrometry, single crystal X-ray analysis and electrochemical methods.
Thereafter, I was offered a position in School of Chemical Sciences, NISER (March, 2017). I joined NISER in December, 2017 as an Asst. Prof in the School of Chemical Sciences. Presently, my research group is working on the development of earth-abundant first-row transition metal complexes with cooperative ligands (mainly) for the application as catalysts in varieties of organic transformation.