I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, India, under the supervision of Prof. Amalendu Chandra in 2010. Afterward, I did postdoctoral work at the Department of Chemistry & Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Italy (2010-2011), and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA (2011-2014). Prior to joining IISER Berhampur in 2016, I also worked as a Senior Scientific Officer at the National Centre for Flexible Electronics at IIT Kanpur, India.
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Therapeutic
discovery for infectious diseases:
In the recent past, there have been outbreaks of various
deadly viruses leading to a pandemic or endemic situation across the world.
Among them are Coronavirus and the monkeypox virus. In addition, there are
bacterial/fungal infections, cancer, and other diseases. We aim to control some
diseases using state-of-the-art computational methods and appropriate
experiments by focusing on therapeutic discovery and mechanistic studies of
pathogenic biological targets.
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Study of advanced
porous materials for gas separation and storage:
With ample surface area, pore volume, tunable properties, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are cornerstones for gas separation and storage. The heavy use of fossil fuels in thermal plants, automobiles, and day-to-day life has declined resources and inflated the CO2 level in the atmosphere. There is a serious concern about global warming. Along with carbon capture, there is a need to use alternative renewable and green energy sources (lighter hydrocarbons with less carbon content) to mitigate the effects. The above porous materials are being explored to separate and store various gases by both computational and experimental methods.
