• M. Sc. Kalyani University (1993)

• Ph. D. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (1999)  

• Post-Doctoral Fellow Purdue University, USA (1999 – 2000)

• Post-Doctoral Fellow Texas A&M University, USA (2000 – 2003)

Employment 

• HAG Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur 2018 (Aug.)  

• Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur   2012 – 2018 (Jul.)

• Associate Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur  2008 – 2011

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur   2003 – 2007

• Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan    2014 (Jan.) – 2014 (Feb.)

• Visiting Professor, University Paul Sabatier, France    2014 (May) – 2014 (June)

Fellowships and Awards

• Chemical Research Society of India, Silver Medal  (2021)
  

• Jagdeo Narain Gupta and Smt Murti Devi Gupta Chair,  IIT Kanpur  (2021)
  

• Science and Engineering Research Board, India, J C Bose Fellowship  (2019)
  

• Indian National Science Academy, FNA  (2018)
  

• Chemical Research Society of India, C. N. R. Rao National Prize in Chemical Sciences  (2018)
  

• JNCASR, AV Rama Rao Foundation Lecture (2017)

• National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, Dr R A Mashelkar Endowment Lecture on Advanced Materials  (2016)
  

• Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), DAE Outstanding Investigator Award  (2015)
  

• IIT Kanpur, Satish Chandra Agarwal Chair  (2015)
  

• The National Academy of Sciences, FNASc  (2014)
  

• Indian Academy of Sciences, FASc  (2014)
  

• Chemical Research Society of India, Bronze Medal  (2012)
  

• Department of Science and Technology, India, Swarnajayanti Fellowship  (2008)
  

• Department of Science and Technology, India, Ramanna Fellowship 2007

Academic and Administrative Achievements

• Member: Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society

• Member: Editorial Advisory Board of Dalton Transaction (RSC)   2021

• Core Committee Member, PAC on Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, (SERB)   2019

• Coordinator, Centre of Environmental Science and Engineering  2017

• Associate Editor, Applied Organometallic Chemistry (Wiley)  2018

• Member: Editorial Advisory Board of Organometallics (ACS)  2017-2019

• Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT Kanpur  2014-2017

• Co-opted Member, PAC (Inorganic and Physical Chemistry): SERB

• Member, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Council  2014-2017

• Member, National Organizing Committee (NOC) – MTIC 2014

• Member of the Editorial Board of ‘ Resonance – Journal of Science Education‘

• Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Conference in Organometallics and Catalysis   2020

• Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Conference in Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC)   2012-2022