Department: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
Email: dasd [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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An exciting structural and functional overlap of synthetic organic chemistry with nanomaterials and biomolecules is being observed in our lab. We are interested in Systems Chemistry, Organic Materials, Peptide Nanomaterials and Chemical Emergence of Life
Selected as an INSA Associate Fellow in 2025
Elected as the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference Systems Chemistry 2028 and Vice Chair of the Gordon Research Conference Systems Chemistry 2026.
Early Career Advisory Board of RSC Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024 onwards.
Editorial Advisory Board of ChemSystemsChem, 2023 onwards.
Awarded CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2023.
Featured in "75 under 50 scientists shaping today's India" compendium. On National Science Day, Honorable Minister of State for the Ministry of Science &Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh released this coffee table book published by Vigyan Prasar.
Article featured in the virtual issue of the JACS Early Career Investigators as an outstanding work published in 2020.
Awarded CRSI Young Investigator Award 2021 at 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by IISER Kolkata
Awarded Indian Peptide Society-Young Scientist Award (IPS-YSA) for excellence in Peptide Research for the year 2021.
Awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Chemical Science 2020, DST, Govt of India.(https://dst.gov.in/swarna-jayanti-fellow-develop-intelligent-materials-taking-inspiration-living-matter).
Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Reviews 2020-2021.
Selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) 2019.
Advisory Board of Materials Horizons from 2021.
International Advisory Board (IAB) of AsianJOC from 2021 onwards.
Awarded INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India.
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