Professional Experinence and Education:  

• Assistant Professor (Grade-1), School of Chemsitry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India. (September 10, 2021 - )

• INSPIRE Faculty, TIFR-Center for Interdisciplinary Science, Hyderabad, India. (August 2016 - August 2021)

• Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of California Berkeley, USA. (February 2016-August 2016)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, USA. (October 2012 - January 2016)

• PhD, Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India. ( July 2007- August 2012)

• B.Sc. and M.Sc., Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati, India. (2005 and 2007)

Academic Honors and Awards: 

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, 2016

• Best Poster Prize on the conference, "Theoretical Chemistry Symposium" (December 2010) at IIT Kanpur.

• Qualified GATE-2007 with All India Rank-50.

• Recipient, Junior Research Fellowship(CSIR-JRF) & Senior Research Fellowship(CSIR-SRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India (2007 & 2009).

• Recipient Merit Scholarships for B.Sc. and M. Sc. by Visva-Bharati University (2002-2007).

• Recipient, Merit Scholarships for Class XI & XII by Visva-Bharati University (2001-2002).

• Recipient, National Merit Scholarship by Government of India in Madhyamik Pariksha 2000.