Postdoc.
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
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ABOUT ME
I was born in India in 1995 and earned my B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah, India, in 2015. I then pursued my M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, graduating in 2017 with an Academic Excellence Award.
Following my master's, I worked as a research associate in Prof. Amalendu Chandra’s group at IIT Kanpur for six months before joining Dr. Marialore Sulpizi’s group at the University of Mainz, Germany, for a four-month research tenure.
From 2018 to 2023, I completed my Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Jan M.L. Martin. Subsequently, from March 2023 to February 2025, I was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Frank Neese's group at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
In March 2025, I joined the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Andreas Dreuw’s group.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Ph.D. (Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2023)
Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Advisor: Prof. Gershom (Jan M.L.) Martin
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Topic: Development and application of state-of-the-art empirical double-hybrid density functionals.
2018 - 2023
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Ph.D. (Computational Chemistry)
Supervisor: Prof. Gershom (Jan M.L.) Martin
​Israel Chemical Society Prize for an Excellent Graduate Student
2015 - 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
M.Sc. (Chemistry)
CPI(Cumulative Performance Index) 9.9 out of 10
Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra
2012 - 2015
RK Mission Vidyamandira Belur Math
University of Calcutta, India
B.Sc. (Chemistry)
First Class & Gold Medal
TRR 146 Guest Scientist
(March 2018 - July 2018)
Department of Physics
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marialore Sulpizi
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Topic: An ab-initio MD study of formation and growth of Metal-Organic Framework at the cuprite electrolyte interface.
Project Associate (extension of Master’s thesis)
(June 2017 – Feb. 2018)
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Advisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra
Topic: Combined Electronic Structure/Molecular Dynamics (ES/MD) study of aqueous nitrate solutions of divalent cations..
PostDoc. (March 2023 - Feb. 2025)
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Department of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Dimitrios A. Pantazis and Prof. Frank Neese
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PostDoc. (March 2025 - Present)​
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Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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Advisor: Prof. Andreas Dreuw
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