DCS faculty

Sourav Pal
Director,Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus:
E-mail: s.pal [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Amlan K Roy
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Theoretical Chemistry
E-mail: akroy [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Arindam Mukherjee
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Metal complexes, magnetism, DNA cleavage, Anti-cancer agents, metalloproteins, microcalorimetry
E-mail: a.mukherjee [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Ashwani Kumar Tiwari
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Theoretical Reaction Dynamics
E-mail: ashwani [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Balaram Mukhopadhyay
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Carbohydrate), Glyco-nanotechnology
E-mail: mbalaram [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Biplab Maji
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Molecular catalysis: Metal catalysis, organocatalysis, photoredox catalysis. Development of new methodology: Carbon-carbon and carbon-hetero atom bonds formation, cascade reactions Physical organic chemistry: Kinetics and mechanisms Organic synthesis: Synthesis of natural products and bioactive compounds
E-mail: bm [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Chilla Malla Reddy
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Supramolecular Chemistry, Crystal Engineering
E-mail: cmreddy [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Debansu Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Organic Semiconductors
E-mail: dchaudhuri [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Debasis Koley
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Computational Chemistry
E-mail: koley [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Debasish Haldar
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: SupraMolecular Bio Organic Chemistry
E-mail: deba_h76 [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Devarajulu Sureshkumar
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: C-H bond activation, Asymmetric metal and organocatalysis, Asymmetric Halofunctionalization of Olefins, Visible Light Photocatalysis
E-mail: suresh [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Dibyendu Das
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Chemical Evolution of Life, Amyloid based functional soft materials, Materials for Photothermal Therapy
E-mail: dasd [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Mousumi Das
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
E-mail: mousumi [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Pradip Kumar Ghorai
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
E-mail: pradip [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Pradip Kumar Tarafdar
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Synthesis of Lipids, Organic Methodology and Drug-delivery, Viral and Bacterial Infection, Membrane Trafficking
E-mail: tarafdar [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Pradipta Purkayastha
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Photochemistry and Spectroscopy
E-mail: ppurkayastha [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Prasun Kumar Mandal
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Ultrafast Fluorescence Dynamics of Chemical, Biological and Material systems
E-mail: prasunchem [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Priyadarshi De
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Polymer Chemistry
E-mail: p_de [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Rahul Banerjee
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Metal Organic Frameworks
E-mail: r.banerjee [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Raja Shunmugam
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Polymer Chemistry
E-mail: sraja [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Ratheesh K Vijayaraghavan
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Study of electro chemical, optical properties, self assembling behaviour and nano fabrication of electronic devices
E-mail: ratheesh [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Sanjio S. Zade
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Organic Electronics Materials
E-mail: sanjiozade [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Sayam Sen Gupta
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Bio-inspired Catalysis and Materials, Inorganic Reaction Mechanism
E-mail: sayam.sengupta [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Sayan Bhattacharyya
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology
E-mail: sayanb [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Soumyajit Roy
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Materials Science
E-mail: s.roy [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Subhajit Bandyopadhyay
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Photochromic materials; biomimetic chemistry
E-mail: sb1 [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Suman De Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Transition metal and metal free catalysis, C-C and C-hetero atom bond activation using redox chemistry, Organic synthesis.
E-mail: sds [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Sumit Khanra
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Bioinspired Water Oxidation towards Energy, Small Molecules and C-H bond Activation, Nanomagnetism, Organometallic Chemistry
E-mail: sumit.khanra [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Supratim Banerjee
Assistant Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Supramolecular polymers in aqueous media using host-guest chemistry of macrocyclic container molecules,Self-healing materials, Molecular recognition in polar and aqueous media, Luminescent sensors
E-mail: supratim.banerjee [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Swadhin Mandal
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Organometallic Catalytic Transformations, Nanomaterials
E-mail: swadhin.mandal [at] iiserkol.ac.in

Venkataramanan Mahalingam
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
Research focus: Luminescent Nanomaterials & Nanocomposites
E-mail: mvenkat [at] iiserkol.ac.in

The research areas of the following faculty members has significant overalp with that of DCS :

Rituparna Sinha Roy
Associate Professor
Dept: Biological Sciences