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Dr. Saira Banu, an IPDF in the group of Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu, has received Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference on Photophysics and Photochemistry (ICOPP), held at Department of Physics, IIT Bombay from Oct 14-16, 2024.
Ms. Chandrani Pal (20107273), a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. S.P. Rath, has received Best Oral Presentation Award in CRSI-ACS Early Career Researchers' Symposium, held at KIIT DU, Bhubaneswar, Odisha from Oct 22-23, 2024.
Mr. Shantanu Sen (18107281), a PhD student in the group of Prof Sandeep Verma, has been selected for 'Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award' for the year 2023.
Mr Shantanu Sen (18107281), a PhD student in the group of Prof Sandeep Verma, secured 2nd place at the Falling Walls Lab Event India, hosted by the Falling Walls Foundation Germany & Local Organisers, IISc Bangalore, 6th Sept, 2024.
Mr. Zahid Ahmad Khan (20207277), a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has received Best Poster Award in Organic Chemistry Symposium (OCS-2024), held at IIT Kanpur from Sept 08-09, 2024.
Ms. Shilpa (20207272), a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan, has received Best Poster Award in Organic Chemistry Symposium (OCS-2024), held at IIT Kanpur from Sept 08-09, 2024.
Mr. Vatsalya Gupta (22107288), a Ph.D. student in the group of Dr. Ramkrishna Sarkar, has received Best Poster Award in Organic Chemistry Symposium (OCS-2024), held at IIT Kanpur from Sept 08-09, 2024.
Mr Shantanu Sen, a PhD student working with Prof Sandeep Verma, secured 2nd position at the prestigious Falling Walls Lab Event India, hosted by the Falling Walls Foundation Germany & country organizers, IISc Bangalore.
Mr. Shantanu Sen, a PhD student in the group of Prof Sandeep Verma, has been selected as one of the 11 nationwide recipients of 'Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award' for the year 2023.
Prof. Sabuj Kundu has been invited to join the editorial advisory board of the journal Tetrahedron Green Chem which publishes in articles in the field of sustainable synthesis using green chemistry principles.
Prof. S.P. Rath has been elected to the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi
Mr. Debarghya Sarkar, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. J.N. Moorthy, has received best poster award in 34th International Symposium on Chirality, held at Kyoto, Japan from Aug 26-29, 2024.
Dr. Priyanka Chakraborty, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Basker Sundararaju, has received best flash presentation award in ACS Meetings Global Virtual Symposia Fall 2024 (Aug 17-21) - Emerging Landscape of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis.
Ms. Paulami Chakraborty, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. S.P. Rath, has received Best Poster Award in 17th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC-17), held at University of Münster, Germany from Aug 25-29, 2024.
Dr. V. G. Rao has been conferred the class of 1973 young faculty fellowship from September 9, 2024 for a period of 3 years.
Ms. Geetanjali Negi (19107278) and Mr. Anurag Sharma (20107265), PhD students in Dr. Nagma Parveen’s group, have received SERB International Travel Grants to attend the German Biophysical Society Meeting (Sept 22-25, 2024) in Leipzig, Germany and Gordon Research Conference on Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology (Aug 4-9, 2024) at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, USA, respectively.
Ms. Rhitwika Chowdhury, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Anantharaman, has received Best Poster Award in International Symposium Frontiers In Sustainable Catalysis and Organometallics (FISCO), held at MNIT Jaipur from July 11-12, 2024.
Dr. Bhumika Agrahari, an IPDF in the group of Dr. Ritika Gautam, has received DBT and CSIR Foreign Travel Grant to attend the 17th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (EuroBIC-17), which will be held at the University of Münster, Germany from Aug 25-29, 2024.
Ms. Ritama Kar, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Nisanth, has received Best Poster Award in International Conference on 60 Years of DFT: Advancement in Theory & Computation, held at IIT Mandi from July 21-26, 2024.
Mr. Abhishek Kumar Yadav, a Ph.D. student in the group of Dr. Srinivas, has received Best Oral Presentation Award in 14th International Workshop on Combustion and Propulsion, held at Pescara, Italy from July 29-31, 2024.
Ms. Shiwangi Gupta, a PhD student of Prof S.K. Kundu and Ms. Nidhi Garg, a PhD student of Prof B. Sundararaju were awarded Best Poster Awards for posters at the 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC-2024) at the Jaypee Palace in Agra, India from July 14-18, 2024
Prabhakar Kumar Pandey, a student of Prof J.K. Bera received the best poster award in the recently concluded 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC 2024), Agra India.
Dr. Ritika Gautam Singh has been awarded as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.
Ms. Dolly Chandel (18207263, Dr. S. P. Rath) and Mr. Pradeep Sachan (19107291, Dr. P. C. Mondal) received the best poster prize at the recently concluded Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) meet at Hyderabad, India, July 4-6 2024
Prof. D. H. Dethe has been awarded the C. N. R. Rao National Prize for Chemical Sciences-2025 by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
Dr. Srinivas Dharavath and Dr. Prakash Chandra Mondal have been awarded the P. K. Kelkar (class of 1979 research fellowship for outstanding young faculty) from 1 May 2024 for a period of 3 years in recognition of their excellent professional contributions at IIT Kanpur
Prof. Basker Sundararaju has been named the Guest Professor 2024 at the University of Toulouse III- Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Ms. Shiwangi Maurya, a Ph.D. student in the group of R. Gurunath was awarded the best oral presentation at the 11th International Conference on Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS 2024) held from April 9-12, 2024 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Ms Ankita Jaiswal, a PhD. student of Prof. Sandeep Verma has been awarded a competitive MDPI Travel Grant Award to attend and present her research work at the 8th EuChems Conference on Nitrogen Ligands to be held in Cassis (France), June 3-7, 2024
Prof. Dattatraya Dethe has joined the Editorial Board of Tetrahedron & Tetrahedron Letters
Dr. Grace Kaul, an IPDF in the group of Prof. Sandeep Verma, has received the 'Best Oral Presentation' at the '4th Student Indian Peptide Society Symposium’, held from 23-24th February at Gujarat Biotechnology University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Zahid Ahmad Khan, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has been awarded the “Best Poster Presentation award” in 32nd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry 17th CRSI-RSC Symposium held at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus Rajasthan during 01-02-2024 to 04-02-2024.
Alka Karn, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. J. N. Moorthy / Prof. R. Gurunath, has been awarded "Best Poster Award" at the 32nd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, held from 2nd to 4th February 2024 in BITS, Pilani.
Abhijit Saha, a Ph.D. student in the group of Dr. Ashis K. Patra, has been awarded the Best Poster Prize from Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) at the 32nd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, organized by Dept. of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus on February 2-4, 2024.
Chhavi Khajuria a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has been awarded the “Best Poster Award” in the Indo-German Conference 2024 themed Sustainable Chemistry 2024, organized by IIT Indore at Goa during February 20-22, 2024.
Abhishek Kumar Yadav (best oral presentation), Parasar Kumar and Manojkumar J (best poster presentation), students of Srinivas Dharavat, received awards at the International Conference on High Energy Material Conference and Exhibits (HEMCE'24), organized by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in Trivandrum, Kerala, from February 1st to 3rd, 2024
Ms Farha Naaz, a PhD student in the group of Dr. D.L.V.K. Prasad, has been awarded American Physical Society (APS), Division of Computational Physics, Graduate Student Travel Award for the APS March 2024 Meeting, Minneapolis USA
Prabhakar Kumar Pandey, a Ph.D. Student in the group of Prof. Jitendra K. Bera, has been awarded Best Poster award for the Presentation, titled 'An Efficient Ni(II) Pincer NHC Catalyst for Borylation of Aryl and Alkyl Halides’, at the International Conference on ‘Frontiers in Catalysis (FIC-24)’, organized by Department of Chemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, on January 4-5, 2024.
Sourav Pal, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Jitendra K. Bera, has received 'Chemical Science (RSC)' Best Poster Award at the 'Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC) 2024', organized jointly by TIFR Mumbai and IACS Kolkata during 7-11 January, 2024 held at Kolkata
Deepannita Samanta, a Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. S. P. Rath, has received 'Chemical Science (RSC)’ Best Poster Award from at the 'Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry' (SABIC) 2024', held at Kolkata, India from 7th to 11th January, 2024.
Rakesh Kumar, a Ph.D. student in the group of Dr. Apparao Draksharapu, has received 'Chemical Science (RSC)' Best Poster Award at the 'Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC) 2024', organized jointly by TIFR Mumbai and IACS Kolkata from 7-11 January 2024 held at Kolkata.

Ms. Saloni Kumari (20107298), a Ph.D. Student in the group of Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu, has received the “Best Poster Award" in the 'Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC XX)’ conference, held at IISc, Bengaluru during December 14-17, 2023
Mr Shantanu Sen, a PhD student of Prof. Sandeep Verma, has been selected for the Second Prize in Saransh: Thesis Presentation Competition 2023, organized at the national level by The Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS), New Delhi.
Ms. Garvita Dhanawat (20107279), a Ph.D. Student in the group of Dr. Nagma Praveen, has received the Best Poster Award for a poster on "Calcium mediated protein reconstitution using Giant Plasma Membrane Vesicles as fusogen" at the 93rd Annual session of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), held during 3rd to 5th Dec 2023 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai
Basker Sundararaju has edited a book titled 'Dehydrogenation Reactions with 3d Metals'.
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters for a term of January 2024 to December 2026
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters for a term of January 2024 to December 2026
Mr. Arghya Sen, a PhD student in the group of Prof. Pratik Sen, received 'ACS Energy Letters' Best Poster Award in International Conference on Hybrid Halide Perovskite 2023 (HyPe-2023), organized jointly by IACS Kolkata, SNBNCBS and IISER Kolkata from 22nd to 23rd December, 2023 held at IACS Kolkata
Ms Farha Naaz, a Ph D student in the group of Dr. DLVK Prasad, received Best Poster Award in Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS-2023), held at IIT-Madras from Dec 07-11, 2023
Mr. Viral Rawat, a Ph D student in the group of Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu, secured First Prize in a Poster Presentation at the International Conclave on AMR and Future Antibiotics (ICAFA 2023), held at the Department of Biological Sciences, SRM University, Andhra Pradesh
Mr. Parag Tamuly, a Ph D student in the group of Prof. J.N. Moorthy, received the Best Poster Award at International Winter School on Frontiers in Materials Science 2023 and International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials (RAM-90), held at JNCASR-Bangalore from 4th-9th December, 2023
Dr. Nila Pal, an IPDF in the group of Dr. Prakash Chandra Mondal, has been awarded the Best Poster Award for the poster entitled, ' "All-Organic" Viologen Memristors for Next Generation Neuromorphic Applications' presented at the 34th MRSI Conference held at IIT- BHU during 12-15th December 2023
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters for a term of January 2024 to December 2026.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for Professor D. P. Chakraborty 60th Birth Anniversary Commemoration Award from the Indian Chemical Society. This award will be given in the 60th Annual Convention of Chemist 2023 at IIT Delhi (December 20-21, 2023). It is a biennial award consisting of a citation and a plaque
Dr. Anantharaj Sengeni has recently been selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences for the period 2023 to 2026
Prof. Vinod K Singh has been appointed Chairperson, Recruitment & Assessment Board, CSIR.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been conferred with INAE-SERB Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship to work on “Chemically Engineered Thermostable Human Insulin for Diabetic Patients” for three years “in recognition of his outstanding contributions and future promise in the field of Precision Therapeutics, Stem Cell Engineering, Bioengineering as well as his contribution in the growth of the engineering profession in the country”
Prof. R N Mukherjee, a former faculty, has written a book entitled 'Inorganic Chemistry - Principles and Properties’, published by World Scientific
Ms Ramsha Javed, a Ph D student in the group of Prof. Nisanth Nair, has been awarded a poster prize in the conference 'Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry (TACC23)’, which was held in Sapporo, Japan from 4-9 September, 2023.
Dr. J N. Moorthy has been selected to receive the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association (APA) Award 2023. The award lecture and ceremony for the Award is scheduled during the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Conference (APC2023) in Melbourne later this year
Prof. Nisanth Nair has received the Dr. APJ Adul Kalam HPC Award 2023 under the category “Researcher – R&D in HPC Applications” for developing new computational methods and software for quantum chemistry calculations and their applications in predicting the structure and dynamics of condensed matter systems. Hewlett Packard Enterprise gives Dr. APJ Adul Kalam HPC Awards annually to recognize significant contributions to theadvancement of HPC in science, engineering, and beyond.
Dr. Nisanth N Nair has been selected to receive the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal for the year 2024 in recognition of his significant contributions to research in Chemistry.
Ms. Moumita Patra and Mr. Prabhakar K. Pandey, working in the group of Prof. Jitendra Bera, have received the "Best Poster Award" in 31st CRSI NSC Symposium held at NIT Rourkela on 6-8 July 2023.
Mr. Deepak Kumar, working in the group of Prof. D. Goswami, has received the “Best Poster Award" in Photonics-2023 held in IISc Bangalore on 5-8 July 2023.
Ms. Mamta Gill, working in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has received the "Best Oral Presentation" at the International Conference on Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (ICOMC-2023), held at NIT Warangal on 28-30 June 2023.
Mr. Abhijit Manna, working in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has received the "Best Poster Presentation Award" at the International Conference on Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (ICOMC-2023), held at NIT Warangal on 28-30 June 2023.
Dr Apurva Panjla, a former PhD student from the research group of Prof. Sandeep Verma, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Blavatnik Centre for Drug Discovery, Tel Aviv University, Israel, has bagged the 2023 IUPAC- Solvay International Award for Young Chemists for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
Manish Kumar, as studnet of Manas Ghorai, has been awarded the ACS best poster award in the National Symposium "Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences (RACS-2023)", held in Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, MP during March 16-17, 2023
Mr Arghya Sen, a PhD student in the research group of Prof. Pratik Sen, has received the Best Poster Award in Perovskite Society India Meet 2023" (PSIM-2023), jointly organized by the Department of Physics and Centre for Flexible and Smart Energy Device in IIT Roorkee, 1st March -3rd March, 2023
Shantanu Sen, a Ph D student in the group of Prof. Sandeep Verma, has been selected as one of the winners under the best stories (PhD category) for AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research) programme, of Vigyan Prasar, DST
Professor Sandeep Verma has been asked to serve as Professor In-charge of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, IIT Kanpur. He will lead the School's research and academic activities, including international partnerships
Dr. Ankur Malik, an Institute Post-doctoral Fellow working in the group of Dr. Prakash C Mondal, received the Best Poster Award, for the poster entitled "Nanoscale ‘all-organic’ molecular electrochemical supercapacitors: A step closer to molecular power banks”, presented at the 2nd International Conference on Electrochemistry for Industry, Health and Environment held during February 7-11, 2023 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Our students, Kajal Chaudhary (supervisor: Ritika Gautam), Priyanka Chakraborty (Supervisor: Basker Sundararaju), Dolly Chandel (Supervisor: Sankar P Rath), Pradeep Sachan (Supervisor: Prakash C Mandal) received Best Poster Awards in the 30th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry that was held recently at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi from 2nd-5th February, 2023
Tanmoy Khan’s (Supervisor: Pratik Sen) work has been selected among the best 51 of all PMRFs across the nation and will be presented in the PMRF Symposium 2023 attended by the Minister of Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
Ms. Pooja Aggarwal, a Ph D student in the group of Vishal Govind Rao, has been recognised with best poster award in the "Conference on Advances in Renewable Energy (CARE-2023)", an international conference jointly organised by HRI, Prayagraj, India and TIFR-Hyderabad, India on February 02-04, 2023
Ms Manorama Dey, a PhD student in the group of Dr. Nagma Parveen, was awarded the First Prize for her poster entitled "Probing Virus Binding to Giant Plasma Membrane Vesicles with Fluorescence Microscopy Technique" at the International Conference on Advanced Biomedical Imaging, organized by IIT Madras, Chennai on January 9-11, 2023

Ms Priyanka Chakraborty, a Ph.D. student working in the group of Dr. Basker Sundararaju, has been awarded best poster presentation prize at the conference 'Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC) XIX' held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 15th to 17th December 2022
Ritama Kar, a student of Prof Nisanth Nair, has been awarded the Best Poster Award in the conference "Designing Catalysts on Computers - 2022”, organized by the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata on 02-03 December
Ms. Nidhi Garg, a graduate student in the research group of Dr. Basker Sundararaju, has been awarded the Raman-Charpak Fellowship 2022 for a four-month research stay in France
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been appointed as the Editor in Chief for PeerJ Analytical Chemistry.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for SMC Gold Medal-2022 of Society of Materials Chemistry (Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai). It will be conferred during 9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry (ISMC-2022), at DAE Convention Center, Mumbai (Dec 7-10, 2022).
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been elected Member of Faraday Community Council for Physical Chemistry.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has joined as an International Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Ceylon Journal of Science, Sri Lanka.
Dr. Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, an IPDF working in the group of Dr. Mainak Sadhukhan, has been awarded a Best Poster Award in the conference “Current Trends in Theoretical Chemistry-2022”, organised by DAE-BRNS at BARC, Mumbai.
Ms. Swathi Swaminathan (Supervisors: Drs. Manabendra Chandra and Jitendra Bera) has received the Best Poster Award in the Faraday Discussions meeting organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was held in London during 21 - 23 September, 2022.
Mr Arghya Sen (supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen), Ms. Sona Tiwari (Supervisor: Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu), Ms Suchismita Ghosh (Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu) and Ms Shreyasi Banik (Supervisor: Dr. Srinivas Dharavath) received Best Poster Award in the 29th CRSI-NSC meeting held recently at IISER Mohali.
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been selected to receive the CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2022 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in Chemistry.
Professor T. K. Chandrashekar (former faculty) has joined the department as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He will be spending three months beginning July 01, 2022.
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of Chemical Sciences, in particular on his research on developing catalysts based on earth-abundant metals and their applications in sustainable C-H functionalizations.
Dr. V G Rao has joined editorial board of ‘Photocatalysis and Photochemistry’, a section of ‘Frontiers in Chemistry’, as an Associate Editor. It publishes original and high-quality research in photocatalysis and related to photochemistry.
Ms Shreyasi Banik (supervisor: Dr. Srinivas Dharavath) has received best poster presentation award at the 13th International High Energy Materials Conference & Exhibits – 2022, which was held at TBRL-Chandigarh from 26th - 28th May, 2022.
List of students called for PhD Interview in May 2022
Dr. Srinivas Dharavath has joined as an editorial board member in the journal Energetic Materials Frontiers, which publishes original basic and applied research in the field of energy materials and fuels.
Mr. Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Supervisor: Dr. Srinivas Dharavath) has received the best poster presentation award at 28th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry conference, which was held in IIT Guwahati from March 25 - 27, 2022
Mr. Mrigank Singh Verma, a Ph D student in the department (Supervisor: Dr. Manabendra Chandra), has been awarded AWSAR award (an initiative of DST) for "Best PopularScience Stories under the Ph.D. category". The award carries a cash prize and a certificate.
Ms Sadhna Shah (Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K Singh) received the best oral presentation award in the XVII J-NOST 2022 conference for research scholars held during 06-09, 2022 and organised by School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad
Dr. Vishal Govind Rao from the Chemistry Department has been invited to join the Editorial Board of "Communications Materials - Nature"
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been selected for the ‘Shri. G. D. Gokhale Endowment Lectureship’ by ICT, Mumbai.
Dr. Pratik Sen has been selected to receive the CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2022.

Ms. Pragya (Supervisor: Dr. Apparao Draksharapu) has been selected for the PMRF Fellowship under the Dec 2020 cycle.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been chosen for the A.V. Rama Rao Technology Award 2021, instituted by CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in collaboration with AVRA Laboratories Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad.
Prof. Vinod K. Singh has been selected to receive the "TWAS Regional Award - 2020 for Building Scientific Institutions". TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences), Trieste, Italy, is a global academy for the advancement of science in developing countries.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited to serve as a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemBioChem (Wiley), for a period of five years. ChemBioChem publishes important breakthroughs across all areas at the interface of chemistry and biology.
Prof. Jitendra K. Bera has been selected for the Jagdeo Narain Gupta and Smt. Murti Devi Gupta Chair of IIT Kanpur for a period of three years.
Prof. J. K. Bera has been invited to join the Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions, a peer-reviewed scientific journal for all areas of inorganic chemistry, including organometallic, bioinorganic and materials chemistry, and published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Prof. J. K. Bera has been invited to join the Board of Editors for the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society (JICS), published by the Indian Chemical Society.
Ms. Anjali Negi (Thesis supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra) and Mr. Subhadip Mondal (Thesis supervisor: Prof. K. Srihari) have been awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) in 2020 under the direct route.
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Organometallic Catalysis as Review Editor for Frontiers in Catalysis.
Prof. Sankar P. Rath and Prof. D. Dethe, have been selected for the SERB Science and Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR).
Dr. Hilal Ahmad Pal, who recently completed his PhD from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, under the supervision of Prof. Sandeep Verma, has been chosen for SAILIFE-NOST Best Thesis Award-2020.
Ms. Kavita Chaudhary (Supervisor: Dr. Vinod K. Singh), Mr. Soumen Paira (Supervisor: Dr. Basker Sundararaju), Mr. Subhadip Pramanik (Supervisor: Dr. S. P. Rath), Mr. Tanmoy Khan (Supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen) and Mr. Ashwini Kumar (Supervisor: Dr. Ritika Gautam) have been awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2020 under the lateral entry.
Dr. Bhaskar Paul, Dr. Jadhav Santosh Digambarrao, Dr. Prithwidip Saha, Dr. Deepti Kalsi and Dr. Sakthi Raje have been selected for the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2020 by IIT Kanpur.
Dr. Sabuj K. Kundu has been awarded the Best Presentation Award in Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications; VCCA-2020. The VCCA-2020 conference was organized by the University of Mauritius and it was endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
Prof. D. Goswami has been elected as the Chair of the Instrument Science and Technology Group Committee of Institute of Physics (IOP), London, for a period of 4 years.
Dr. G. Anantharaman has been selected for the Research Excellence Award for Oral presentation at International Seminar on “Recent Advances in Chemistry & Material Sciences (2020)” organized by the Indian Chemical Society.
Dr. I. Avinash (recently finished PhD from Dr. G. Anantharaman's group) has been selected for the S. S. Bhatnagar Young Scientist Award for Oral presentation at International Seminar on “Recent Advances in Chemistry & Material Sciences (2020)” organized by the Indian Chemical Society.
Prof. S. P. Rath has been awarded the Professor R S Varma Memorial Award for the year 2020 by Indian Chemical Society.
Prof. S. Manogaran has been selected as one of the recipients of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2020 of the Institute.
PhD students selected from interview conducted on 20-08-2020
Selected candidates for PhD, 2020-21-I Semester
Prof. J. K. Bera has been selected for the Silver Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in chemistry. The medal will be presented in one of the CRSI National Meetings to be held in 2021.
Shortlisted candidates for PhD interview on 29 June to 4 July 2020
Mr. Gaurav Goswami (Ph D student of Prof. M. Ghorai) has been awarded a best poster award at INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FRONTIER AREAS of CHEMISTRY (ICFAC) during February 28-29, 2020 in Department of Chemistry - Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar.
Ms. Swati Gupta (from the research group of Prof. R Gurunath) has been awarded the best oral presentation prize in Student Indian Peptide Symposium (sIPS-2020) held during February 20-21, 2020 in Madurai Kamaraj University, India.
Prof. D. Goswami has been invited to join the editorial board of Science Advances as an Associate Editor. Science Advances is an open access multidisciplinary journal published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Prof. Vinod K. Singh has been elected as the President of the Chemical Research Society of India for next three years (2020-2023).
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited to become a Member, Governing Board, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), New Delhi.
Prof. Sankar P. Rath has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).
Prof. D. Goswami has been invited to join the Editorial Board of PLOS One as an ‘Academic Editor’. PLOS One is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science since 2006.
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been awarded the Merck Young Scientist award in a recent ceremony held at Bangalore on 27th Dec, 2019.
Mr. Bholanath Garai (19107271) and Mr. Anubhav Nath (19107268) have been selected for Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF).
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Banaras Hindu University.
Prof. J.N. Moorthy has been awarded the SASTRA-CNR Rao Award for excellence in Chemistry and Materials Science for the year 2020.
Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu has been awarded the Har Govind Khorana Innovative Biotechnologist Award of DBT.
Ms. Sadhna Shah (research group of Prof. V K Singh) has received the second best poster award in the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry conference at RMIT Australia.

Prof. N. N. Nair and Dr. T. G. Gopakumar have been chosen for the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Institute for 2019. The award will be given during the Teachers’ Day celebration on 5th September, 2019.
Ms. Khyati Shukla from the group of Prof. V. K. Singh received a best oral presentation award in the meeting "Chemical Frontiers Goa" 2019. He presentation was entitled "Highly Diastereoselective Syntheses of Carbocyclic Spiro-pyrazolones via Domino Michael-Michael and Sequential Michael-Hydroalkylation Reactions".
Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu and Dr. Ishita Sengupta were awarded CRSI Young Scientist Award at the CRSI National Symposium held at IIT Kanpur during July 19-21, 2019.
Dr. D.H. Dethe has been selected for the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in recognition of his excellent contributions to research in chemistry. The Medal will be presented to him in one of the CRSI National Meetings to be held in 2020.
Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj has been offered the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay.
Prof. MLN Rao has been selected as the USV Chair of IIT Kanpur for a period of three years. This is in recognition of Prof Rao’s outstanding academic credentials and excellent research contributions.
Prof. S.P. Rath has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Chirality’ published by Wiley, USA.
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to serve as an associate editor of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (JHC). JHC is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and it is published by Wiley-Blackwell (United States).
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been appointed as the Secretary of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).
Mr. Abhinav Gupta (PhD student of Dr. Nisanth Nair), Ms. Nidhi Sorout and Ms. Deepika (PhD students of Prof. Amalendu Chandra) received PCCP best poster prizes at the Workshop and Symposium on Advanced Simulation Methods: DFT, MD and Beyond (ASM-2019) held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, during 06-09, March 2019.
Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been appointed as the Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram.
Mr. Bidhan Hazra (PhD student of Dr. Manabendra Chandra) received a ‘best poster award’ for his presentation at the 16th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2019) at BITS Pilani, during February 13-16, 2019.
Mr. Banshi Das and Ms. Nidhi Sorout (PhD students of Prof. Amalendu Chandra) received ‘best poster awards’ for their presentation at the conference “Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology” held at IISc Bangalore during February 18-20, 2019.
Dr. Sabuj Kumar Kundu has been selected for the Young Faculty Research Fellowship of IIT Kanpur.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the Goyal prize of Kurukshetra University.
Prof. J.K. Bera has been awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India.
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been honored by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as 2019 SPIE Fellow for achievements in femtosecond pulse shaping & NLO for exploitation in cross-disciplinary areas. Link
Prof. Manas K. Ghorai has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).
Dr. Sarvesh K. Pandey (PhD with Prof. S. Manogaran) has been selected for the "Best Thesis Award - 2019" in Chemical Sciences. The award will be presented at Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB) 25th ISCB International Conference (ISCBC-2019) on “Trends in Chemical and Biological Sciences: Impact on Health and Environment” from 12th to 14th January, 2019 at Lucknow.

Dr. Abhijit Mal (Ph.D. with the research group of Prof. Manas K Ghorai), has been chosen for Sailife-NOST Best Thesis Award 2018.
Inorganica Chemica Acta, a prominent international journal of Inorganic Chemistry, has published a special issue in honor of Prof. R.N. Mukherjee on the occasion of his 65th birthday. This special issue has been edited by Drs. Jeremy Smith, Rajeev Gupta and A.S. Borovik. Click here for details.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited by ChemBioChem to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board. ChemBioChem is co-owned by 14 European Chemical Society members of ChemPubSoc Europe and published by Wiley-VCH. More information can be found at the following link.
Prof. D. Goswami has been awarded the “2018 ICO Galileo Galilei Award” by the International Commission for Optics. It was established by the 1993 General Assembly of ICO and has been awarded annually since 1994. Prof. Goswami will be the fifth Indian among the 25 global recipients of this prestigious award.
Prof. S.P. Rath has been selected for the C N R Rao National Prize in Chemical Sciences instituted by C N R Rao Educational Foundation and Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for promotion of Chemical Research. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 and a citation.
Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been selected for the Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
Mr. Anjani Kumar Pandey, PhD student of Prof. S.P. Rath, has received the best poster award in 23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-23) held at IISER Bhopal from 13-15th July, 2018.
Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, and Director of IISER Bhopal, has been awarded the Professor Subramania Ranganathan Memorial Medal (2018) of Indian National Science Academy. The award comprises a medal, citation and an honorarium and the recipient of the award is expected to deliver a lecture under the aegis of a nearby local chapter of INSA.
Prof. D. Goswami has been elected as a Fellow of The Institute of Physics (IOP), UK.
Dr Nisanth N Nair has received the "Distinguished Lectureship Award" by the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), in the field of Theoretical Chemistry, during its 98th annual meeting held in Nihon University, Funabashi, Japan (March 20-23, 2018).
Dr Basker Sunderaraju has been invited to be a member of Early Career Advisory Board for the journal ACS Catalysis from ACS.
Dr. Pratik Sen, Dr. M. Chandra and Dr. T. G. Gopakuamr have been awarded Young Faculty Research Fellowship by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, for a period of 5 years.
On the occasion of the Foundation Day celebration of Uttar Pradesh (UP Diwas: January 24, 2018), Prof. Vinod K Singh and Prof. Sandeep Verma have been chosen for felicitation by the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh for their remarkable accomplishments in their profession.
Prof Jitendra K Bera has been invited to join as an Associate Editor of "Applied Organometallic Chemistry" (AOC, Wiley Interscience). AOC publishes Full Papers, Reviews, Mini Reviews and Communications of scientific research in all areas of organometallic and metal-organic chemistry involving main group metals, transition metals, lanthanides and actinides. Journal Link.
Mr. Saikat Das (Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe), Mr. Hilal Ahmad Pal (Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma), Mr. Bapan Saha (Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath) and Ms. Deepti Kalsi (Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju) are awarded the best poster awards in the recently concluded Organic Chemistry Symposium at IIT Kanpur.

Mr Mrigank Singh Verma, PhD student of Dr. M. Chandra, has received 'RSC Best Poster Award' for his presentation at the National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry and Materials (CCM2017), which was organized at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, during Dec 21-22, 2017.
Mr. Vipin Mishra, Ph. D student in the group of Dr Gopakumar, has received the best paper presentation award for the work entitled "Two dimensional materials for electronic applications" at the International Conference on Thin Film (ICTF-17), held during Nov 13-17, 2017, at CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India. The award is given by Indian Vacuum Society (IVS).
Dr. Ashis K. Patra has been awarded HRSMC (Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry) Fellowship at Leiden University.
Mr. Sagarmoy Mondal, a PhD student in Prof Nisanth Nair's research group, has been awarded the Best Poster Award in an International Symposium -CPMD 2017-, held at Tsukuba, Japan (Oct 18-20, 2017).
Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. This singular recognition reflects Prof Moorthy's outstanding contributions to chemical research over the years.
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize of the Materials Research Society of India for the year 2018.
Prof. J. K. Bera has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. This singular recognition reflects Prof Bera's outstanding contributions to chemical research over the years.
Prof. K. Srihari has been awarded the prestigious INSA Teachers Award (2017). This award is instituted to recognize and honor teachers who have inspired students to take up careers in Science and Technology. It carries a scroll of honor, a cash award of Rs 50,000 and a generous book grant.
Prof. Amalendu Chandra and Prof. Sankar P. Rath have been elected as Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017
Prof. D. Goswami has been nominated as a honorable Member, Board of Governors, Uttar Pradesh Textile Training Institute, Kanpur, for a period of three years
Ms. Chetna Yadav, Ph. D. student of Prof JN Moorthy, was chosen for the best poster award in the International Union Crystallography Congress held at Hyderabad (August 21-28, 2017).
Prof. Jitendra K. Bera has been selected for C. N. R. Rao National Prize in Chemical Sciences 2018, instituted by C.N.R. Rao Education Foundation for promotion of Chemical Research, under the aegis of Chemical Research Society of India. This award is given for his outstanding research contributions and carries a citation and a cash prize.
Mr. I. Avinash, PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. G. Anantharaman, has been awarded Best Poster Award for his poster entitled "A Proficient Synthesis of Backbone Halo-Funtionalized Imidazolylidene/imidazolyl-Metal Complexes: Structure, Donor Property and Catalytic Application" in 21st CRSI-National Symposium in Chemistry, held at IICT, Hyderabad from (July 14-16, 2017). This award was sponsored by ACS Omega.
Prof. R. N. Mukherjee has been invited as a Guest Co-Editor of frontline ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry for their special "Forum Issue" on "Reactivity of Metal Complexes with Ligand-Centered Radicals", which will be released in 2018.
Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been awarded the P. K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship from IIT Kanpur.
Prof Debabrata Goswami has been inducted as a Member of the Scientific Panel on Sampling and Analysis, by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the National Prize for Research on 'Interfaces between Chemistry and Biology', donated by AVRA Laboratories and instituted at C N R Rao Education Foundation, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Research, Bangalore.
Ms. Gagandeep Kaur (supervisor: Prof. S. Verma) and Mr. Nagaraju Barsu (supervisor: Dr. B. Sunderaraju) are selected for the prestigious 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to be held in Lindau, Germany (June 25-30, 2017). They will be among 400 young scientists chosen around the world for a close interaction with several Nobel Laureates, for an extended period of time.
Mr R. Parasuraman (PhD student from Prof. Y. D. Vankar's group) was selected for Best Poster award in the Indo-German Workshop on "Recent Applications of Carbohydrates in Chemistry and Biology (RACCB-2017)" held at IIT(BHU) Varanasi, (Feb 14-16, 2017).
Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited by the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, to serve as an Associate Editor of Chemical Communications.
Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj has delivered the prestigious Prof. P. T. Manoharan Endowment Lecture in Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, on 'Supramolecular Chemistry of Cryptands'.
Prof. Y. D. Vankar delivered the presitigious Prof. K. K. Balasubramanian Endowment Lecture in Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, on 'Synthetic Studies Towards Biologically Relevant Imino- Amino-, and Annulated Sugars from Glycals'.

Mr. Anas Ansari (Ph.D. student of Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker) was selected for Michael C. Pirrung Best Poster award in 21st International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS 21) held at IIT BOMBAY, (11-16 December 2016).
Mr. V. Veeraswamy (PhD student of Prof. M. K. Ghorai) was selected for best poster award during 21st International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS 21) held at IIT BOMBAY, (11-16 December 2016). The conference was jointly organised by IIT BOMBAY, CSIR-IICT HYDERABAD and IUPAC.
Prof. Manas K. Ghorai has been elected to the Fellowship of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology – 2016, for his seminal contributions to synthetic organic chemistry.
Mr. Prithwidip Saha, PhD student of Dr T. G. Gopakumar, has won the best poster award in theme “Scanning Probe Microscopy and Electron Microscopy" during the International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICYRAM 2016) at IISc Bangalore (11-15 December 2016). This conference is jointly organized by the International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS) and Materials Research Society of India (MRSI).
Prof Vinod K Singh has been elected as a Fellow of 'The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries'. He has been elected to the Academy for his outstanding contributions to science and its promotion in the developing world.
Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), USA. He is being recognized "for seminal and significant contributions in ultrafast optical instrumentation for exploitation in cross-disciplinary fields like quantum information and biomedical applications as well as pedagogy in optics and photonics and voluntary services to OSA." As an OSA Fellow, he joins a distinguished group who has served the Society and the optics and photonics community with distinction.
Mr Ganesh Murhade (PhD student, Supervisor: Dr DH Dethe) has been selected for Eli Lilly and Company Outstanding Thesis Award 2016, coordinated by NOST. This award carries a cash prize of USD 1000 and a Lilly plaque, and it will be presented to him during J-NOST 2016, being organized in Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (November 24-27, 2016).
Prof. R. N. Mukherjee has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry for a period of three years, beginning January 1, 2017. Inorg Chem is the most widely cited and respected journal of the American Chemical Society in its field, with articles covering a broad spectrum of interests, including bioinorganic, organometallic, solid state and materials chemistry, and the chemistry of nanoscale systems.
Prof Amalendu Chandra has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry for a period of three years beginning January 1, 2017. J Phys Chem is a widely cited and respected journal of the American Chemical Society, covering a broad spectrum of interests in physical chemistry. His duties will involve consultations concerning journal policy, quality and the future of J Phys Chem.
Prof Jitendra K Bera has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Organometallics, for a period of three years beginning January 1, 2017. Organometallics is a widely cited and respected journal of the American Chemical Society, covering a broad spectrum of interests including catalysis, main group chemistry, bioorganometallics and the chemistry of lanthanides and actinides. The Editorial Advisory Board consists of approximately 25 internationally distinguished scientists, with interests covering the full range of organometallic chemistry
Professor Sandeep Verma has been selected for the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Silver Medal, 2016 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in chemistry.
Mr. Prithwidip Saha (supervisor Dr. T. G. Gopakumar) has received a merit award for his oral presentation during the International Conference on Electron Microscopy 2016, jointly organized by the Electron Microscopy Society of India (EMSI) and IIT BHU Varanasi, on 2-4 June 2016.
Ms Shalini Awasthi (Ph.D. student of Dr. Nisanth Nair) has received First Prize in poster presentation during "CPMD Meeting 2016", held at the University of Chicago, USA. "CPMD Meeting" is a well known biannual international conference in the field of first principle-based molecular simulation of molecular systems, materials, and biomolecules.
Prof. M. L. N. Rao has been elected as a Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS).
Mr. Mahesh Parsutkar, M.Sc.(2 Year) student has secured an all India second rank in GATE 2016 under chemistry discipline.
Prof. Sandeep Verma and Prof. J. N. Moorthy have been promoted as HAG professor.
Prof. M. L. N. Rao has been invited to join the Editorial Advisory Board of Mini-Reveiws in Organic Chemistry (MROC), published by Bentham Science Publishers.
Mrs Geeta Chamoli, Chemistry Department Office, has been selected for the Merit Award for 2016. She will be presented with a certificate of appreciation and Rs 30,000 cash prize by the Director, IIT Kanpur, during the Republic Day function.
Dr. Ashis K Patra has been selected for JSPS Invitation Fellowship 2016 for research in Japan.
Prof. R. Gurunath (Section of Environmental Sciences), Prof. J. N. Moorthy (Section of Materials Sciences) and Prof. Sandeep Verma (Section of Chemical Sciences) have been selected to deliver the Platinum Jubilee Lecture at the 103rd Indian Science Congress to be held at University of Mysore, Mysuru, during January 3-7, 2016. The Platinum Jubilee Lectures were initiated in 1988 to commemorate 75th year of the inception of Indian Science Congress Association.

Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose fellowship from DST (2015).
Prof. Sandeep Verma have been awarded for Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture Award 2015 of Chemical Research Society of India.
Mr. Vadlamuri Veeraswamy (supervisor: Prof. M. K. Ghorai) was honored with prestigious 'Professor P. Sengupta Memorial Award' and cash prize for his poster in '52nd Annual Convention of Chemists 2015 and International Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences' organized by Indian Chemical Society held at JECRC University, Jaipur, during December 28-30, 2015.
Dr. Pratik Sen has been selected as a member of the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) for the period 2016-2021.
Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been conferred with the Millennium Plaque Award of the Indian Science Congress for the year 2015-2016.
Mr. B. Vijay Kumar (Ph. D. student of Dr. D. H. Dethe) has been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, sponsored Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Best Poster Prize at XI J-NOST conference at NISER Bhubaneshwar (Dec 14-17, 2015).
Mr Narendra Kumar Mishra (supervisor: Prof S Verma), was awarded the Best Poster Award at 7th International Peptide Symposium 2015 (jointly organized by Nanyang Technological University and A*STAR Biomedical Science Institutes, Singapore) for his poster titled 'Inhibition of Human and Bovine Insulin Fibril Formation by Designed Peptide Conjugates'.
Ms Khushboo Yadav (supervisor: Dr. T. G. Gopakumar) and Ms Gagandeep Kaur (supervisor: Dr. S. Verma) have been declared winners in the Artistic Micrography Contest 2015-16, jointly organized by Indian Institute of Metals, Kanpur Chapter, and Material Advantage, Kanpur Chapter, held on 28th November, 2015.
Mr. P. Chandrasekhar (PhD student of Prof. J. N. Moorthy), was selected for International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Poster Prize, in 13th Conference of Asian Crystallographic Association, held in Kolkata (December 5-8, 2015).
Prof. Manas K Ghorai's group has developed a new synthetic route to chiral 3-substituted indolines, which provides to a wide range of chiral indolines in excellent yields (99 %) and enantiomeric excess (99% ee). Sigma-Aldrich has placed his research article in their website (http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/) in context of indolines product series and is offering the abstract and free full-text for the scientific community and potential customers.
Mr. Subhomoy Das (Supervisor: Prof. M. Ghorai), Ms. Anijamol T. Philip (Supervisor: Dr. R. Ramapanicker) and Mr. Vivek Gupta (Supervisor: Dr. G. Anatharaman) have won RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) poster prizes during the RSC-IIT Kanpur Symposium in Chemical Sciences (Nov 23, 2015).
Ms. Gagandeep Kaur (Supervisor, Prof. S. Verma) has been awarded a Travel Bursary to attend the 11th Australian Peptide Conference from Australian Peptide Society. The bursary will be to a value of AUD 600.
Two former Ph. D. students of Department of Chemistry, Dr. R. D. Erande (Supervisor: Dr Dattatraya H Dethe) and Dr. V. Venkatesh (Supervisor: Prof Sandeep Verma) have been honored with Eli Lilly Outstanding Thesis Award 2014 by National Organic Symposium Trust, India.
Mr Sarvesh Pandey, PhD student in the group of Prof S Manogaran, has been awarded 1st Prize for Best Oral Presentation for his paper entitled "Quantification of Aromaticity Based on Interaction Coordinates: A New Approach" in National Symposium On Innovative Methods in Chemistry Education (IMCE-2015) And National Convention of Chemistry Teachers (NCCT-2015) organized by Department of Chemistry, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (October 8-10, 2015)
Professor Sandeep Verma has been elected as Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.
Professor Manas K. Ghorai has been elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc). This prestigious Fellowship is in recognition to his seminal contributions in developing concepts of memory of chirality, along with Lewis acid catalyses of activated aziridines and azetidines, via SN2 ring opening, to afford chiral intermediates for the synthesis of natural products.
Prof. Pradyut Ghosh, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, has been selected for the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2015 in Chemical Sciences. Prof. Ghosh did his PhD in Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1998 under Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj. The Department of Chemistry, IITK conveys its hearty congratulations to Prof. Ghosh on his remarkable success.
An article on 'Disposal of Chemical Waste in IIT Kanpur', by Prof. Jitendra K. Bera, (translated by Rajbhasha Cell, IIT Kanpur), published in August 2015 issue of 'Antas', has fetched an award under 'Technical Writing' category by 'Rajbhasha Seva Sansthan, New Delhi'. To view the article please click here.
Prof. Amalendu Chandra has been selected for Endowed Chair Professorship by the Institute (2015). He will occupy the N. C. Nigam Chair for three years.
Prof. Manas K. Ghorai has been selected for Endowed Chair Professorship by the Institute (2015). He will occupy the USV Chair for three years.
Professor Y. D. Vankar has been conferred the Distinguished Teacher Award 2015, by IIT Kanpur. The award was presented to him on September 5 during the celebration of Teachers day.
Dr. Dattatraya H. Dethe and Dr. Pratik Sen have been selected for P. K. Kelkar Research Fellowship (Young Faculty Research fellowships) for a period of three years.
Prof. K. Srihari has been selected to receive Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in chemistry.
Prof. Amalendu Chandra has been selected to receive the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Silver Medal in recognition of his extensive and outstanding contributions to research in chemistry.

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