Meet Our Lab Alumni
Dr. Karnam Snehalatha (1997)
Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Present Address: Research Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Dr. Subhrangsu Sekhar Mandal (1998)
Placement: Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Alberta, Canada.
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Present Address: Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Univ. Texas, Arlington, TX, USA.
Dr. Soma De (1999)
Placement: Alexander von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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Present Address: Adjunct Faculty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
& Scientist/Biochemist; Registered to practice before the USPTO as Patent Agent, Schenectady, NY, United States.
Dr. Sangita Ghosh (1999)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique des Substances Naturelles, Associé au CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
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Present Address: Sr. Vice President, Technical Operations, Reviva Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
Dr. S. N. Ghanashyam Acharya (1999)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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Present Address: Associate Professor of Surgery, and Dept. of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Dr. Saubhik Haldar (2000)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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Present Address: Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, India.
Dr. Yamuna Krishnan (2001)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Joined as Associate Professor ‘G’, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560 065, India.
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Present Address: Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago.
Dr. Mini Thomas (2002)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Present Address: Principal Scientist,
Amplified Sciences, Inc., West Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Dr. Dileep P. Vangasseri (2003)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Pharmacogenetics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Present Address: IP Intelligence Leader at Cytiva, India.
Dr. Akash Gulyani (2004)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Research Inst. La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Present Address: Associate Professor, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, TIFR, UAS-GKVK, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560 065, India.
Dr. Jayanta Haldar (2004)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Present Address: Professor, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bangalore 560064, India.
Dr. V. Praveen Kumar (2005)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in Harvard Medical School, USA.
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Present Address: Senior Fellow, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, TIFR, UAS-GKVK, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560 065, India.
Dr. Smita Sarkar (2005)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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Present Address: Intellectual Property Analyst in SABIC Research and Technology Private Limited, Village Chikkadunnasandra Anekal: Taluk, Off Sarjapura, Attibele State Highway Bengaluru 562125, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Aasheesh Srivastava (2006)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) & Mitsubishi Chemicals Center for Advanced Materials, University of California Santa Barbara, USA.
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Present Address: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
Dr. Sumana Ghosh (2006)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
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Present Address: Senior Scientist at Vyome Biosciences, Patpargang Industrial Estate, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Padmaparna Chaudhuri (2007)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Nano-medicine, BWH-HST Center for Biomedical Engineering, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA.
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Present Address: Director of Technical Research, Sands Capital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Avinash Bajaj (2008)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
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Present Address: Professor, The Laboratory of Nanotechnology and Chemical Biology (LNCB), Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Biotech Science Cluster (BSC), Gurgaon-122016, Haryana, India.
Dr. Asish Pal (2008)
Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Science and Technology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
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Present Address: Scientist F, Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali (Punjab), India.
Dr. Joydeep Biswas (2010)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, USA.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rangpo, Sikkim 737136, India.
Dr. Ananya Paul (2011)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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Present Address: Research Scientist I, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Dr. Suman K. Samanta (2012)
Placement: Alexander von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellow, Makromole-kulare Chemie, Bergische University of Wuppertal Gaußstr. 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Dr. Namita Kumari (2013)
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Present Address: Facility Technology Manager, Centre for Nano Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Santosh K. Misra (2013)
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, MatMed Group, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Basudeb K. Maji (2013)
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, West Bengal, India.
Dr. V. Gururaja (2015)
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA.
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Present Address: Scientist I, Sanofi, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States.
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Dr. Sougata Datta (2015)
Placement: SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
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Present Address: JSPS-Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan.
Dr. Subham Bhattacharjee (2015)
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Science and Technology and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India.
Dr. Asfa Ali (2015)
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Present Address: Postdoctoral Researcher,
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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Dr. Krishan Kumar (2015)
Placement: Research Associate, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
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Present Address: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Mangesh Kuladge (2016)
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Parikshit Moitra (2016)
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Joined as Assistant Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, Odisha, India.
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Dr. Bappa Maiti (2016)
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Nilanjan Dey (2018)
Placement: JSPS Postdoctoral fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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Present Address: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Dr. Mohini Kamra (2019)
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar at Purdue University, USA.
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Present Address: Research Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Dr. Soma Roy (2020)
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology and then Postdoctoral Researcher at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, USA.
Dr. Dipen Biswakarma (2020)
Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Rahmat Asfiya (2021)
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine
Columbia, Missouri, United States.
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Dr. Subhajit Bhunia (2021)
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, The University of Texas at El Paso, Texas, United States, USA.
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Presently, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
Dr. Bidhan Chandra Patra (2022)
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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Presently, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States.
Dr. Pranay Saha (2022)
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Dr. Umesh (2022)
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, Punjab, India.
Subsequently, Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India.
Dr. Sourav Sarkar (2023)
Placement: Research Associate I, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Selected List of Post-Doctoral Fellows:
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[1] Dr. Kaliappa G. Ragunathan
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Present Address: Principal Scientist at BASF Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
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[2] Dr. Shaji K. George
Placement: Senior General Manager, Process Research and Development at LUPIN LIMITED, Pune, India.
Present Address: Vice President and Head of Research and Development, FERTIS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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​[3] Dr. Uma S. Hiremath
Placement & Present Address: Researcher, Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences, Jalahalli, Bangalore 560 013. India.
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[4] Dr. Marappan Subramanian
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, CA, USA.
Present Address: Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Wave Life Sciences, Acton, Massachusetts, United States.
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[5] Dr. Kakali Rudra
Placement: Senior Principal Investigator at Syngene International Limited, Bangalore.
Present Address: Associate Consultant, TekIP Knowledge Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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[6] Dr. Yashveer Singh
Placement: Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, and Department of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.
Present Address: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Nangal Road, Rupnagar, Punjab 140001, India.
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[7] Dr. Hajra Basit
Worked as a project assistant.
Present Address: Marie Curie Fellow, Chemistry Research Laboratory, 12 Mansfield Road, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA.
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[8] Dr. Saturdu Jha
Worked as a DBT Postdoctoral Fellow
Placement: Assegno di Ricerca, Department of Chemical Sciences University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Present Address: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rangpo, Sikkim 737136, India.
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[9] Dr. Bhupendra S. Chikkara
Worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Scheme of the Department of Science & Technology.
Placement: Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA.
Present Address: Department of Chemistry, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi, Bawana, Delhi, India.
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​[10] Late Dr. Akash Jain
Worked as a DBT Postdoctoral Fellow.
He was an Independent Scientist of the Department of Science & Technology under the Fast Track Scheme.
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[11] Dr. Deepa Bhagat
Worked as a DBT Postdoctoral Fellow
Placement: University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Present Address: Principal Scientist, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, National Bureau of Agriculturally Insect Resources, Bangalore 560 024, India.
[12] Dr. Durgadas Cherukaraveedu
Worked as Dr. DS Kothari Post doctoral Fellow, Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
Present Address: Formulation Scientist, NexImmune, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States.
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[13] Dr. Pradyot Koley
Worked as DST Postdoctoral Fellow at Director’s Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India.
Present Address: Scientist-D / Deputy Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
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[14] Dr. Anirban Pradhan
Worked as DST Inspire Faculty at Director’s Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
Present Address: Assistant professor at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India
