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

1. PhD (Organic Chemistry), IACS Kolkata (Jadavpur University) (IACS Kolkata), 2010

1.   2025- onwards: Professor, IISER Kolkata​
2.   2021- 2025: Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata
3.   2021- onwards: Swarnajayanti Fellow, IISER Kolkata
4. ​  2017- 2021: Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata

1. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (RVP-VY-SSB, 2025) in Chemistry, awarded by Honourable President of India at Gantantra Mandap, Rashtrapati Bhavan.  https://www.presidentofindia.gov.in/sites/default/files/2023-06/rashtriya_vigyan_puraskar_compressed.pd https://www.youtube.com/live/CD2T9zGJUSI

2. Elected as the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference Systems Chemistry 2028 and Vice Chair of the Gordon Research Conference Systems Chemistry 2026.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Selected as an INSA Associate Fellow in 2025

6. Early Career Advisory Board of RSC Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024 onwards.

7. Editorial Advisory Board of ChemSystemsChem, 2023 onwards.

8. Awarded CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2023.

9. Article featured in the virtual issue of the JACS Early Career Investigators as an outstanding work published in 2020. 

10. Awarded CRSI Young Investigator Award 2021 at 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by IISER Kolkata

11. Awarded Indian Peptide Society-Young Scientist Award (IPS-YSA) for excellence in Peptide Research  for the year 2021. 

12. Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Reviews 2020-2021.

13. Selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) 2019.

14. Advisory Board of Materials Horizons from  2021.

15. International Advisory Board (IAB) of AsianJOC from 2021 onwards.

16. Awarded INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India.

Selected Publications:

Non-equilibrium Autopoietic Vesicles - Chem, 2025

Catalytically Active Coacervates - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025

Allosteric dipeptide assemblies - JACS, 2024

Short peptide amidase - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 2024

Non-equilibrium self-assembly - Nat. Rev. Chem. 2024

Short Peptide Based Reductase - Nat. Commun. 2024

Chemotactic Amylobots - Nat. Commun. 2023

Photomodulated Protometabolism by Short Peptide - JACS, 2023

COF-Peptide Biomimetic Catalysts - JACS, 2023

Charge-Selective Catalysis - JACS, 2022 

All Publications:

1. Das, Dibyendu. 2018." Subhajit Bal, Krishnendu Das, Sahnawaz Ahmed and Dibyendu Das*.“Chemically-Fuelled Dissipative Self-Assembly exploiting Cooperative Catalysis." ” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019 (Accepted Articles), 1, 1
2. Das, Dibyendu. 2017."Tolulope O. Omosun, Ming-Chien Hsieh, W. Seth Childers, Dibyendu Das, Anil K. Mehta, Neil R. Anthony, Ting Pan, Martha A. Grover, Keith M. Berland, and David G. Lynn*. “Catalytic Diversity in Self-propagating Peptide Assemblies” ." Nature Chemistry 2017 9, 805–809, 9, 805-809
3. Das, Dibyendu. 2016."Ashmeet Singh, Nidhi Kapil, Yenuganti Mahesh and Dibyendu Das* “Exfoliated sheets of MoS2 trigger formation of aqueous gels with acute NIR light responsiveness” ." Chem. Commun. , 52, 14043
4. Das, Dibyendu. 2016."Nidhi Kapil, Ashmeet Singh, Manish Singh and Dibyendu Das* “Efficient MoS2 Exfoliation by Cross-?-Amyloid Nanotubes for Multistimuli-Responsive and Biodegradable Aqueous Dispersions” ." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 55, 7772–7776.
5. Das, Dibyendu. 2015."Nidhi Kapil, Ashmeet Singh and Dibyendu Das* “Cross-? Amyloid Nanohybrids Loaded With Cytochrome C Exhibit Superactivity in Organic Solvents” ." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 54, 6495