iitkiitkBioinorganic Laboratory
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Present Members

Dolly Chandel

 M.Sc., Chemistry: Panjab University

 Area of Research: Supramolecular chirogenesis

 Fellowship: CSIR

 Email : dolly@iitk.ac.in

 

Deepannita Samanta

 M.Sc., Chemistry: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur

 Area of Research: Diheme Protein MauG

 Fellowship: INSPIRE

 Email : dsam@iitk.ac.in

 

Paulami Chakraborty

 M.Sc., Chemistry: University of Calcutta

 Area of Research: Diheme Proteins

 Fellowship: Institute

 Email : paulamic@iitk.ac.in

 

Anindya Sarkar

 M.Sc., Chemistry:  West Bengal State University

 Area of Research: Diheme Proteins

 Fellowship: CSIR

 Email : asarkar@iitk.ac.in

 

Subhadip Pramanik

 M.Sc., Chemistry:  National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

 Area of Research: Diheme Proteins

 Fellowship: Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF)

 Email : subhadip@iitk.ac.in

 

Chandrani Pal

M.Sc., Chemistry: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Area of Research: Supramolecular chirogenesis

Fellowship: Institute

Email: cpchem20@iitk.ac.in

 

Niva Ghosh

M.Sc., Chemistry: IIT(ISM) Dhanbad

Area of Research: Diheme Proteins

Fellowship: GATE

Email: nivaghosh21@iitk.ac.in

 

Santanu Manna

M.Sc., Chemistry: Vidyasagar university, Midnapore

Area of Research: Diheme Protein MauG

Fellowship: UGC

Email: santanum21@iitk.ac.in

Arya Roychowdhury

M.Sc., Chemistry: University of Calcutta

Area of Research: Diheme Proteins

Fellowship: Institute

Email: aryar21@iitk.ac.in

 

Namrata Chakraborty

M.Sc., Chemistry: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Area of Research:

Fellowship: PMRF

Email: namratac23@iitk.ac.in

 

Nigam kumari

M.Sc., Chemistry: central university of South bihar

Area of Research:

Fellowship: Institute

Email: nigamk24@iitk.ac.in

 

Basanta Khamrui

M.Sc., Chemistry: Vidyasagar university

Area of Research:

Fellowship: Institute

Email: basantak24@iitk.ac.in

 

Past Members

 

 

 Dr. Syed Jehanger Shah

 Year of PhD completion: 2024

 Thesis title: Dipyrrole Bridged Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Structure, Reactivity and Electronic Communication via Bridge

 

 

 Dr. Sayantani Banerjee

 Year of PhD completion: 2024

 Thesis title: Spin Coupling in Homo and Hetero-bimetallic Porphyrin Dimer upon Stepwise Oxidations: A Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigations

 

 

 Dr. Sabyasachi Sarkar

 Year of PhD completion: 2023

 Thesis title: Diiron(III) Porphyrin Dimer as Model of Diheme  Enzyme MauG: From Electronic Communication to Reactivity

 Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

 

 Dr. Sarnali Sanfui

 Year of PhD completion: 2023

 Thesis title: Molecular and Electronic Structure of Dicobalt Porphyrin Dimers: Effect of Axial Ligation, Chemical and Electrochemical Oxidation, and Theoretical Investigation

 Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA

 Dr. Bapan Saha

 Year of PhD completion: 2021

 Thesis title: Modulation of Supramolecular Chirogenesis in Chiral Zn(II) Porphyrin Dimer with Bidentate Substrates

 Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Southern Illinois University,  Carbondale, USA

 

 

 Dr. Anjani Kumar Pandey

 Year of PhD completion: 2020

 Thesis title: Molecular and Electronic Structure of Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Effects of Metal, Axial Ligand and Noncovalent Interactions

 Post-Doc: University of Padova, Italy | University of Innsbruck, Austria

 Current Position: Assistant Professor, Manipal University, Jaipur, India

 

 

 

 Dr. Akhil Kumar Singh

 Year of PhD completion: 2020

 Thesis title: Oxidation Triggers Intermacrocyclic Interactions in Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Metal versus Ring Oxidation

 Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA | University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

 

 

 

 Dr. Younis Ahmad Pandit

 Year of PhD completion: 2020

 Thesis title: Pyrrole/Dipyrrole Bridged Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Structure-Reactivity Correlation and Long Range Electronic Communication

 Current Position: Lecturer, Higher Education Department, J &  K, India

 

 

 Dr. Amit Kumar

 Year of PhD completion: 2019

 Thesis title: Homo and Heterobimetallic Porphyrin Dimers: Effect of Chemical Oxidation over Intermacrocyclic Interaction and Electronic Communication

 Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Goettengen, Germany | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel

 

 

 Dr. Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan

 Year of PhD completion: 2019

 Thesis title: Diiron Porphyrin Dimers as Model of Diheme Cytochromes: Structure-Function Correlation and Effect of Heme-Heme Interaction

 Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, UNC-Greensboro, USA

 

 

 Dr. Avinash Dhamija

 Year of PhD completion: 2018

 Thesis title: Supramolecular Chirogenesis in Host-guest Systems Containing Metalloporphyrin Dimers/Trimers

 Current Position: Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Strasbourg, France | Institute of Basic Science, South Korea

 

 

Dr. Pritam Mondal

 Year of PhD completion: 2017

 Thesis title: Flexible Cyclic Bisporphyrins: Versatile Molecular Containers for Recognition, Switching and Catalysis

 Post-Doc: University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA | Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

 Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali, India

 

 

 

 

Dr. Debangsu Sil

Year of PhD completion: 2016

Thesis title: Fe(III)/Mn(III) Bisporphyrins as Model for Diheme Proteins: Effects of Inter-macrocyclic Interaction and Electronic Communication

Post-Doc: Penn State University, USA | Texas A&M University, USA

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, IISER Pune, India

 

 

 

Dr. Dipankar Sahoo

Year of PhD completion: 2016

Thesis title: Electronic Structure and Modulation of Spin State of Iron in Nonplanar Hemes: Implication for the Hemoproteins

Post-Doc: Indiana University, Bloomington, USA | KAIST, Republic of Korea

Current Position: Senior Research Associate, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

 

 

 

Dr. Soumyajit Dey

Year of PhD completion: 2015

Thesis title: Chemistry of Co(II)/Zn(II)bisporphyrins: Axial Ligation, Chemical and Electrochemical Oxidations and Effects of Inter-macrocyclic Interactions

Post-Doc: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA| Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Current Position: Senior Manager, Troikaa Pharmaceuticals Limited, Ahmedabad, India

 

 

 

 

Dr. Sk. Asif Ikbal

Year of PhD completion: 2015

Thesis title: Supramolecular Chirogenesis in the Zn(II)/Mg(II)bisporphyrin Based System upon Interactions with Bidentate Guest Ligands

Post-Doc: Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l'environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON-CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

Current Position: Assistant Professor, WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Japan

 

 

 

Dr. Sanfaori Brahma

Year of PhD completion: 2013

Thesis title: Induction, Origin and Control of Supramolecular Chirality in the Zn(II)/Mg(II)bisporphyrin Host upon Interactions with Bidentate Guest Ligands

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Guwahati University

 

 

Dr. Susovan Bhowmik

Year of PhD completion: 2013

Thesis title: Control of spins in Axially Ligated Diiron(III)bisporphyrin and Studies on Fe(III) and Mn(III)  μ-hydroxo Complexes

Post-Doc: Bielefeld University, Germany | IIT-Technion, Israel

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Bankura Sammilani College, Bankura, India

 

 

 

 
Dr. Arvind Chaudhary

Year of PhD completion: 2012

Thesis title: Porphyrin/Bisporphyrin Based Donor-Acceptor Systems For Efficient Energy/Electron Transfer: Models For Photosynthetic Reaction Center

Post-Doc: NISER-Bhubaneswar, India

Current Position: Scientist E, Anusandhan National Research Foundation, New Delhi, India

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ranjan Patra

Year of PhD completion: 2011

Thesis title: Electronic Structure and Geometrical Consequences of Nonplanar and Electron Deficient Hemes: Implications for the Hemoproteins

Post-Doc: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), France |The Johns Hopkins University, USA|Tel-aviv University, Israel

Current Position: Associate Professor, Amity Institute of Click Chemistry Research and Studies, Amity University, Noida, India

 

 

   

 

Dr. Sudip Kr. Ghosh

Year of PhD completion: 2010

Thesis title: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Ethane- and Ethene-Bridged Bisiron(III) Porphyrins and Hexacoordinated Vanadyl Porphyrins: Effect of Nonplanar Distortion

Post-Doc: Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Current Position: Associate Professor, Techno India University, West Bengal, India

2023