Professional Experience

• Associate Professor (02/2025 - present)

        School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

• Assistant Professor (03/2020 - 01/2025)

        School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (07/2018 - 02/2020)

        Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain

        Supervisor: Prof. Ruben Martin

• Leibniz Postdoctoral Fellow (10/2015 - 06/2018)

        Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany

        Supervisor: Prof. Matthias Beller

    Educational Background

• PhD (10/2011 - 08/2015)

        Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster, Germany

        Supervisor: Prof. Frank Glorius

        Grade: summa cum laude (highest score)

• MSc in Chemistry (08/2009 - 05/2011)

        Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India

        Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

• BSc in Chemistry (07/2006 - 07/2009)

        Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, (University of Calcutta), India

Recognitions:

• Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) Member of ChemCatChem, Wiley (2025 - present)
• Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2022
• Marie Curie Fellowship (MSCA-IF) from European Commission
• Springer Thesis Prize (2016) for PhD research
• PhD Fellowship from the NRW International Graduate School of Chemistry (GSC-MS), Münster, Germany
• GATE-2011 (All India Rank = 1) for PhD Fellowship
• NET (Dec 2010)(All India Rank = 14) for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)
• Summer Research fellowship (2010) from SINP, Kolkata
• IIT-JAM (2009) (All India Rank = 22 among 2585 chemistry candidates)

Membership:

Life membership of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), India

Membership of the American Chemical Society (ACS), USA