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Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Research Group

Name: Pradip Kumar Ghorai
Professor
Area of Interest: Computer Simulation, Density Functional Theory, Porous Material, Nanoparticle, Solvation, Ionic Liquid,
Self-assembly
Email Id: pradip.ghorai@gmail.com,
pradip@iiserkol.ac.in
Contact Number: +91-9432085427
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Ph. D Students

Name: Ms. Shrestha Chowdhury
Designation: PhD student (SRF)
Area of Interest: Solvation Dynamics, Reverse Micelle
Email Id: sb14ip012@iiserkol.ac.in,
swarupbanerjee904@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-8116343308
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Name: Mr. Rik Narayan Mukherjee
Designation: PhD student (SRF) (jointly with Prof. R. Biswas at SNBNCBS)
Area of Interest: Entropic Aspects of Metastable Systems
Email Id: rnm20rs142@iiserkol.ac.in,
rik1996mukherjee@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Mr. Sourav Seth
Designation: PhD student (JRF)
Area of Interest: Understanding Physiochemical Properties of Metastable Multicomponent Complex Chemical systems
Email Id: ss21rs101@iiserkol.ac.in,
souravshit82@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Mr. Rakesh Das
Designation: PhD student (JRF)
Area of Interest: Understanding Origin of Azeotropes and thesir Physiochemical Properties
Email Id: rd22rs079@iiserkol.ac.in,
rakeshdas4750@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-xxxxxxxxxx
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Past PhD Students
Dr. Sukanya Konar

Name: Dr. Sukanya Konar
Area of Interest: DFT and Computer Simulation Studies of Ionic Liquid, Glucose and Protein
Email Id: sukanyakonar@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-8016925419
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Name: Dr. Swarup Banerjee
Area of Interest: Ionic Liquids, Deep Eutectic Solvents and other Complex Chemical Systems
Email Id: swarupbanerjee904@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-8116343308
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Name: Dr. Piyali Mukherjee
Area of Interest: Diffusion in Metal Organic Framework and in Zeolites
Email Id: piyalijuchem2009@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-7686952275
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Name: Dr. Bappaditya Goswami
(Jointly with Dr. Subhash Samanta, IIT Jammu)
Area of Interest: Amine and Imine Functionalized Azo-aromatic Pincer Type Complexes of Cobalt and Nickel: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity Studies
Current Position : Research Associte at IISER Kolkata
Email Id:bg17rs024@iiserkol.ac.in
Contact Number: +91-xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Past Postdocs

Name: Dr. Arijit Bag
Area of Interest: Coupled Cluster Theory, Density Functional Theory, IC50, LogP, Metal Cluster and Drug Design
Current Position : Research Associte at IISER Kolkata
Email Id: bagarijit@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-9735219451

Past BS-MS Students

Name: Dr. Shashank Pant
Area of Interest: Structural and Thermodynamical Properties of CS-fluids: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Current Position : PhD Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email Id: shashankpaant.iko@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-9051498255

Name: Dr. Vivek Sinha
Area of Interest: Building And Testing A New Potential For Studying Conformational Transitions Within C-alpha Structure Based Models And Strong Ligand Adsorption On Metal Clusters
Current Position : PhD Student at University of Amsterdam (Through Shell)
Email Id: vivhitekro@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-9051498255

Name: Rajat Bhardwaj
Area of Interest: Computer Simulations of Ionic Liquids
Current Position : PhD Student at University of Utah, USA
Email Id:rajat.iiserk@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91-xxxxxxxxx