PhD Student: Sumit Kumar Panja
Email: sumitpanjabhu{at}gmail.com
Phone: +91-936919-4364
Academic Qualifications:
2016- | IISc., Bangalore (as National PDF fellow) | |
Ph.D | 2016 | Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,India |
M.Sc. | 2010 | Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,India |
B.Sc. | 2008 | University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India |
Experience
- One year experience as a Junior Research Fellow in a CSIR Funded Project entitled: “Spectroscopic Study of Singlet Radical Pair Recombination in Reaction Cavities in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Polyethylene Film and Conventional Solvents”.
- M.Sc Project detail: "Solvatochromic Study of Reinhardt dye in Binary Solvent Mixture by UV-Vis method."
EXPERTISE
- Experience in performing ab initio and DFT electronic structure theory calculations using routinely used software packages.
- Experience in using a commercial UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Varian, Cary Bio-100) for low-temperature experiments in solution.
AREA OF INTEREST
- Synthesis and Photophysical properties of functionalized Ionic Liquids & their Application in Organic Synthesis.
- Excited State Proton Transfer Process in Conventional Solvent and Ionic Liquids.
- Synthesis & Application of Organic Dye.
- Energetic Ionic Salt: Synthesis and its application as high energy density material.
- Ab initio and DFT Calculation in Chemistry
FELLOWSHIPS
- Qualified for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2009 and 2010.
- Qualified for the National Eligibility Test (NET) in the subject Chemical Sciences under the Joint CSIR-UGC test and Eligibility for Lectureship and received theLectureship under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Eligibility for Lectureship in 2010 (Dec), 2011 (Dec.).
PUBLICATIONS
Sumit Kumar Panja, Nidhi Dwivedi, Satyen Saha, Tetrahedron Letters, 53, 2012, 6167.
- Recyclable, Magnetic Ionic Liquid bmim[FeCl4]catalyzed Multicomponent, Solvent-free, Green Synthesis of Quinazolines.http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/RA/c3ra42039f
Sumit Kumar Panja, Satyen Saha, RSC Advances, 2013, 3, 14495.