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Dr. Pratik Sen
Principal Investigator
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Email: psen@iitk.ac.in
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Dr. Ejaj Tarif
Post Doctoral Fellow
Joining Date: October 2020
Fellowship: Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Interaction and dynamics in deep eutectic solvent (DES), function, structure and dynamics of proteins in a deep eutectic solvent (DES).
Email: ejajt@iitk.ac.in

Aritra Das
PhD Student
Joining Date: July 2015
Fellowship: Visvesvaraya (MEITY, Govt. of India)
Research Interest: Molecular photophysics and photochemistry, Excited state electron transfer, Excited state proton transfer, Ultrafast spectroscopy
Email: aritrad@iitk.ac.in

Nilimesh Das
PhD Student
Joining Date: July 2015
Fellowship: CSIR-JRF
Research Interest: New Methodology for Probing Heterogeneity, Protein Behaviour in Crowded Milieu, Protein Dynamics, Protein Aggregation, Deep Eutectic Solvent, Binary Solvent Mixture.
Email: nilimesh@iitk.ac.in

Shovon Chatterjee
PhD Student
Joining Date: July 2016
Fellowship: Institute Fellowship (GATE)
Research Interest: Synthesis and charge carrier dynamics of doped lead halide perovskite nanocrystals.
Email: shovon@iitk.ac.in

Arghya Sen
PhD Student
Joining Date: May 2019
Fellowship: Institute Fellowship (GATE)
Research Interest: Perovskite nanocrystal synthesis, Origin of Photoluminescence and increment of photoluminescence quantum yield and stability of perovskite, Core@Shell perovskite nanocrystal..
Email: arghyas@iitk.ac.in

Abhijit Dutta
PhD Student
Joining Date: July 2019
Fellowship: CSIR-JRF
Research Interest: Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Excited state relaxation dynamics, Solvation dynamics, Energy/Electron/Proton transfer .
Email: dabhi@iitk.ac.in

Sandeep Yadav
PhD Student in collaboration with Prof. T. Tahara, RIKEN, Japan
Joining Date: July 2019
Fellowship: Institute Fellowship
Research Interest: Protein conformational fluctuation dynamics.
Email: ysandeep@iitk.ac.in

Tanmoy Khan
PhD Student
Joining Date: July 2019
Fellowship: Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF)
Research Interest: Protein behaviour in Deep Eutectic Solvent, Protein Dynamics, Synergism in DES and Binary solvent mixture.
Email: tanmoyk@iitk.ac.in

Kuldeep S Negi
PhD Student
Joining Date: August 2019
Fellowship: Institute fellowship (GATE)
Research Interest: Structure-function-dynamics of protein in presence of osmolytes, and deep eutectic solvents.
Email: negiks@iitk.ac.in

Suman Bhowmik
PhD Student
Joining Date: August, 2020
Fellowship: UGC-JRF
Research Interest: Ultrafast Spectroscopy.
Email: sbhowmik20@iitk.ac.in

Subhendu Pal
PhD Student
Joining Date: August 2021
Fellowship: PMRF, May 2021
Research Interest: ..
Email: subhendup21@iitk.ac.in

Bhupendra Singh
PhD Student
Joining Date: August, 2020
Fellowship: Institute fellowship (GATE)
Research Interest: Effect on Protein behavior by adding the macromolecular and molecular Crowder to mimic the cell environment.
Email: bhupendras21@iitk.ac.in

Patralekha Sarkar
PhD Student
Joining Date: January 2022
Fellowship: Institute fellowship (GATE)
Research Interest:
Email: patralekha21@iitk.ac.in


Past Postdoc


Dr. Serajul Haque Faizi
Email: faizichemiitg@gmail.com
Duration: March 2013 to March 2014
Research Interests: Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Active Compounds and Metal Complexes for Ultrafast Spectroscopic Studies
Present Afficilation: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Langat Singh College, B. R. A Bihar University, India

Dr. Vijaykant Khorwal
Email: vijaykant.iitb@gmail.com
Duration: July 2016 to June 2018
Research Interests: Mechanistic Understanding of Perovskite Solar Cells
PhD From: IIT Bombay, Mumbay
Present Afficilation: Lovely Professional University

Dr. Gulab Singh Maurya
Email: gulabsmaurya@gmail.com
Duration: September 2018 to August 2021
Research Interests: Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy.
PhD From: University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
M.Sc. From: IIT Guwahati, Guwahati.
Present Afficilation: Nehru Gram Visvabharati, Prayagraj


Past Ph.D.


Rajeev Yadav
Email: rajeevy15@gmail.com
Duration: Dec 2008 to Sep 2014
Thesis Title: Domain Specific Interactions, Unfolding and Ultrafast Dynamics of Human and Bovine Serum Albumin: A Bulk and Single Molecular Level Study
Afficilation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Michigan State University, USA
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Shahnawaz Rafiq Rather
Email: shahcmt2009@gmail.com
Duration: July 2009 to Jan 2014
Thesis Title: Ultrafast Excited State Twisting Dynamics of Molecular Systems in Condensed Phase
Afficilation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, USA
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Shradhey Gupta
Email: shradhey84@gmail.com
Duration: July 2009 to Feb 2015
Thesis Title: Spectroscopic Investigation of Alcohol-Chlorinated Methane Synergistic Binary Solvent Mixtures and its Application
Afficilation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Sagar University, India
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Bhaswati Sengupta
Email: bhaswati1487@gmail.com
Duration: Dec 2011 to Mar 2018
Thesis Title: Single Molecular Level Study of Proteins: Insights from Conformational Fluctuation Dynamics and Structural Parameters.
Afficilation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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Puspal Mukherjee
Email: puspalchem@gmail.com
Duration: July 2012 to July 2018
Thesis Title: Modulation of Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics in SDS Micelle.
Afficilation: Assistant Prof. Netaji Subhas University Kolkata, India
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Vaisakh Mohan K.
Email: vaisakhmohank@gmail.com
Duration: July 2012 to April 2019
Thesis Title: Picosecond Hydration Dynamics at the Protein Core and the Effect of Perturbed Environment.
Afficilation: Assistant Prof. St. Joseph's College, Kerala, India
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Vipin Kumar Jain
Email: vipin.jain940@gmail.com
Duration: Dec 2012 to Feb 2021
Thesis Title: Colorimetric and Fluorescent Chemosensors for Selective Detection of Biologically and Environmentally Important Metal Ions at PPM Level.
Afficilation: NA
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Navin Subba
Email: navins@iitk.ac.in
Duration: July 2014 to July 2021
Thesis Title: Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Investigation of Structure and Dynamics of Deep Eutectic Solvents
Afficilation: Post Doctoral Fellow, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
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Past Msc


Name of Student: Shyamashis Das
Title: Site Dependent Protein Surfactant Interaction: A Spectroscopic and Molecular Docking Study
Current Status: Completed (April 2011)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: Ph.D. Student, I.I.Sc. Bangalore, India

Name of Student: Soumen Ghosh
Title: Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Ferrocene-(π-bridge)-Acceptor Systems
Current Status: Completed (April 2011)
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker
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Name of Student: Mainak Kundu
Title: Spectroscopic Investigation of Synergistic Chloroform-Methanol Binary Mixture
Current Status: Completed (April 2011)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: Ph.D. Student, Ohio State University, USA

Name of Student: Arghya Chakraborty
Title: Exploring Marcus Inverted Region in Binary Solvent Mixtures
Current Status: Completed (April 2011)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami
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Name of Student: Nirmal Das
Title: Synthesis and Binding Characteristics of Coelenteazine Derivative with Bovine Serum Albumin
Current Status: Completed (April 2012)
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Sabyasachi Sarkar
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Name of Student: Sharmistha Karmakar
Title: Mechanistic Investigation of Binding of Coumarin 152 with Human Serum Albumin: A Temperature Dependent Fluorescence Spectroscopic Approach
Current Status: Completed (April 2012)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Snigdha Ghosh
Title: Determination of Orientation Parameters by Surface Second Order Non-Linear Spectroscopy
Current Status: Completed (April 2012)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Ankur Jhaveri
Title: Development of Surface Second Harmonic Generation Spectrometer to Study the Adsorption of Malachite Green at the Air/Water Interface
Current Status: Completed (April 2013)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Ashish Jindal
Title: Setting-up a Surface Second Harmonic Generation Spectrometer to Study the Adsorption of Paranitroaniline at the Air/Water Interface
Current Status: Completed (April 2013)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Barun Kumar Maity
Title: Spectroscopy Study of 1-dimethoxymethy-9H-pyrido(3,4-b)indol-3-yl- methanol: A new pH Indicator
Current Status: Completed (April 2013)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Sayoni Ray
Title: Spectroscopic Investigation of DMF/Chloroform Binary Solvent Mixture
Current Status: Completed (April 2013)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Shubhrangshu Pandit
Title: Spectroscopic Investigation of a Potential Anticancer Drug with Human Serum Albumin
Current Status: Completed (April 2013)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Santosh Kumar
Title: Effect of Double Denaturation in a Multi-domain Protein
Current Status: Completed (April 2014)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Indrani Banerjee
Title: Mechanistic Investigation of the Domain Specific Stabilization of Human Serum Albumin by Different Sugar Molecules
Current Status: Completed (April 2014)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Anurag Kumar
Title: Design and Control of a Setup for Data Acquisition in Laser Flash Photolysis using LabVIEW
Current Status: Completed (April 2015)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Arusha Acharyya
Title: Elucidating Domain Specific Double Denaturation of Human Serum Albumin by a New Blue Fluorescent Protein Tag
Current Status: Completed (April 2015)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: Ph.D. Student, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Name of Student: Kuntal Chatterjee
Title: Optical Sensing of Aprotic Solvents through Acidic Proton Removal from Azobenzene Derivative
Current Status: Completed (April 2015)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
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Name of Student: Somnath Biswas
Title: Real Time Quantification of Ultrafast Photo-induced Bi-molecular Electron Transfer Rate: Direct Probing of the Transient Intermediate
Current Status: Completed (April 2015)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: Ph.D. Student, Ohio State University, USA

Name of Student: Apala Chaudhuri
Title: Investigation of the Active-Site Dynamics of Papain: An Ultrafast and Single Molecule Spectroscopic Study
Current Status: Completed (April 2016)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: Ph.D. Student, Yale University, USA

Name of Student: Nishith Maity
Title: A Molecular Level Investigation of Synergistic solvation Characteristics of water- N,N-Dimethylformamide Binary Solvent System
Current Status: Completed (April 2017)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: Ph.D. Student, Iowa State University, USA

Name of Student: Sukanta Shil
Title: Dynamics and Structural Parameter of Protein in a Cell-mimic: Ultrafast and Single Molecular Level Investigation of Domain-III of HSA
Current Status: Completed (April 2017)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: ONGC, India

Name of Student: Shakil Ahammad Chowdhury
Title: Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Governed Photon Up-conversion in Carbon Quantum Dots Derived from Vitamin-C
Current Status: Completed (April 2018)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: N/A

Name of Student: Pratyush Ghosh
Title: Probing diastereomerism of ultrafast excited state proton transfer in the adiabatic regime
Current Status: Completed (April 2019)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: PhD Cambridge University, UK

Name of Student: Sandeep Yadav
Title: Structural, Dynamical and functional Response of a Plant Enzyme, Bromelain in GnHCl and Ficoll-70
Current Status: Completed (April 2019)
Co-Supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: PhD student, IIT Kanpur

Name of Student: Mainak Ghosal
Title: Detailed Charge Carrier Dynamics and Monovalent Cation Induced increment in Quantum Yield in Mixed Lead-Bismuth Perovskite Nanocrystal
Current Status: Completed (2020)
Co-supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: N/A

Name of Student: Ritwik Hazra
Title: Contemplating Heterogeneity Through Spectroscopic Approach
Current Status: Completed (2020)
Co-supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: PhD student at IIT Kharagpur

Name of Student: Ambika Prasad Kar
Title: Structural insight into DES from Vibrational (IR & Raman) Analysis
Current Status: Completed (2021)
Co-supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: N/A

Name of Student: Bisal Halder
Title: Tracking Heterogenous Protein Aggregation at Nanoscale through Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Current Status: Completed (2022)
Co-supervisor: Nil
Present affiliation: PhD IIT Kanpur


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