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Associate Professor (Feb 2020 to Present))
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (2008)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Dec 2013 to Feb 2020)
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York, USA. (June 2012 – Dec 2013)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, USA. (July 2009 – June 2012)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Miami, Florida, USA. (July 2008 – June 2009)
Research Interest:
- Development of novel double-hydrogen bond donor catalysts
- Asymmetric amine catalysis
- Asymmetric synthesis of bio-active molecules
- Study of small molecules for targeted diseases
Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda
Associate Professor (Nov 2015 to present)
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (2001)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Dec 2009 – Nov 2015)
- Research Scientist, School of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Oct 2008 – Dec 2009 )
- Intellectual Property Analyst (Research), John F Welch India Technology Center (General Electric), Bangalore, India. (May 2006 – Sep 2008)
- Research Scientist, School of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Sep 2002 – Apr 2006)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (June 2001 – Aug 2002)
Research Interest:
- Synthesis of photoactive π-conjugated materials for understanding their optical properties
- Synthesis of ionic liquids and examining their suitability as photophysical / photochemical media for various photo-processes.
Bhaskar Datta
Associate Professor (Jan 2018 to present)
Ph.D: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (2004)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Dec 2011 to Jan 2018)
- Assistant Professor: Missouri State University, USA. (Jun 2008 – Dec. 2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, USA. (Jun 2004 – May 2008)
Research Interest:
- Investigation of groove-modified nucleobases on Y-family DNA polymerase activity
- Construction of metal nanowires based on biomolecular templates
- Structure-function correlations of unorthodox DNA structures.
Saumyakanti Khatua
Associate Professor (Feb 2020 to Present)
Ph.D: Rice University, Houston, USA (2011)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Apr 2015 – Feb 2020)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden Institute of Physics, Netherlands (Nov-2011 – March 2015)
Research Interest:
- Plasmonics
- Nano-optics.
Iti Gupta
Associate Professor (Nov 2015 to present)
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (2005)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, (July 2009 – Nov 2015)
- Lecturer, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Goa Campus, India. (Jan. 2007 – June 2009)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (May 2005 – Dec. 2006)
Research Interest:
- Boron based NIR dyes and their conjugates
- Derivatives of corroles and N-confused porphyrins with novel properties
- Metal complexes of Dipyrrins.
Sivapriya Kirubakaran
Associate Professor (Feb 2020 to Present)
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (2007)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Jan 2013 to Feb 2020)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA. (Jan 2010 – Dec 2012)
- Visiting Scientist, Whitehead Institute, MIT, USA. (Jan 2010 – June 2011)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University, USA. (Oct 2007 – Dec 2009)
Research Interest:
- Medicinal chemistry and drug discovery,
- Drug discovery: infectious diseases (H.pylori) and cancer (stomach and lung)
- Chemical biology of cancer: Screening of small molecules to identify novel oncogenes.
Sairam Swaroop Mallajosyula
Associate Professor (Nov 2021 to present)
Ph.D: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India (2009)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Dec 2013 – Nov 2021)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer-Aided Drug Design Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. (May 2009 – Dec 2013)
Research Interest:
- Carbohydrate-protein interactions
- Novel DNA constructs
- Molecular mechanics force field development
Sudhanshu Sharma
Associate Professor (Nov 2021 to present)
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (2009)
Work Experience:
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (July 2012 – Nov 2021)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University, USA (Feb 2011 – June 2012)
- Postdocoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. (May 2009 – Jan 2011)
Research Interest:
- Materials
- Electrochemistry
- Catalysis
Sudipta Basu
Associate Professor (2018 to present)
Ph.D: Ph.D. (Chemical Biology) at Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany (2002 – 2006)
Work Experience:
- DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune (2012 – 2018)
- Postdoctoral Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (2006 – 2012)
Research Interest:
- Using the tools of synthetic organic chemistry
- Chemical biology and nanotechnology to understand mitochondria and related organelle biology in cancer towards next-generation therapeutic
Anirban Mondal
Assistant Professor (August 2021 to present)
Ph.D: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, 2016
Work Experience:
- Postdoctoral Associate: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Jan 2021 – Aug 2021)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate: Princeton University, Princeton, USA (Jan 2019 – Dec 2020)
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (Oct 2016 – Dec 2018)
Research Interest:
- Charge transport in organic semiconductors, excited states, and optoelectronics
- Machine learning techniques to explore the chemical space of organic semiconductors
- Design of efficient host/guest systems for blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
- Donor-acceptor materials for organic solar cells
- Machine learning potentials for atomistic modeling of materials
- Proton/ion transport in solid electrolytes
Biswajit Mondal
Assistant Professor (Sep 2021 to Present)
Ph.D: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University), 2017
Work Experience:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (Feb 2020 – Dec 2020)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (Dec 2017 – Nov 2019)
Research Interest:
- Photo-electrochemistry
- Electrochemical conversion of value added chemicals
- Renewable energy
- Spectroscopy (UV-Vis kinetics, FTIR, resonance Raman, cryogenic intermediate trapping and elucidation of reaction mechanism)
Priyabrata Ghana
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA (Sept 2021 – Sept 2023)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (April 2018 – June 2021)
- The chemistry of low-valent main group compounds
- Application of main group compounds in catalysis
- Complexes with transition metal-main group element multiple bonds
- Small molecule activation with 3d transition metal complexes
- Dinitrogen fixation with heterobimetallic complexes