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• Ph.D. Admissions: Walk-in Interview (July 14-15, 2021)

• Ms. Ilesha Avasthi from the group of Prof. Sandeep Verma has been awarded the prestigious ZUKOnnect Fellowship 2021.

• Prof. Pratik Sen has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSc).

• Dr. Prakash Chandra Mondal has been invited to join the advisory board of the journal "Analyst" published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Analyst publishes fundamental discoveries and inventions in the domain of analytical and bio-analytical research, and their applications, unconfined by traditional discipline barriers.

• Professor Vinod K. Singh has been invited to deliver the "CNR Rao Lecture Series" talk for the year 2021.

• Ms. Pragya (Supervisor: Dr. Apparao Draksharapu) has been selected for the PMRF Fellowship under the Dec 2020 cycle.

• The department mouns the loss of Professor Parthasarathi Raghunathan, a former colleague of ours in the Chemistry department at IIT Kanpur (1978-1992). https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/prof-p-raghunathan

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been chosen for the A.V. Rama Rao Technology Award 2021, instituted by CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in collaboration with AVRA Laboratories Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad.

• Prof. Vinod K. Singh has been selected to receive the "TWAS Regional Award - 2020 for Building Scientific Institutions". TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences), Trieste, Italy, is a global academy for the advancement of science in developing countries.

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited to serve as a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemBioChem (Wiley), for a period of five years. ChemBioChem publishes important breakthroughs across all areas at the interface of chemistry and biology.

• Prof. Jitendra K. Bera has been selected for the Jagdeo Narain Gupta and Smt. Murti Devi Gupta Chair of IIT Kanpur for a period of three years.

• Prof. J. K. Bera has been invited to join the Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions, a peer-reviewed scientific journal for all areas of inorganic chemistry, including organometallic, bioinorganic and materials chemistry, and published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).

• Prof. J. K. Bera has been invited to join the Board of Editors for the Journal of the Indian Chemical Society (JICS), published by the Indian Chemical Society.

• Ms. Anjali Negi (Thesis supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra) and Mr. Subhadip Mondal (Thesis supervisor: Prof. K. Srihari) have been awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) in 2020 under the direct route.

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Organometallic Catalysis as Review Editor for Frontiers in Catalysis.

• Prof. Sankar P. Rath and Prof. D. Dethe, have been selected for the SERB Science and Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR).

• Dr. Hilal Ahmad Pal, who recently completed his PhD from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, under the supervision of Prof. Sandeep Verma, has been chosen for SAILIFE-NOST Best Thesis Award-2020.

• Ms. Kavita Chaudhary (Supervisor: Dr. Vinod K. Singh), Mr. Soumen Paira (Supervisor: Dr. Basker Sundararaju), Mr. Subhadip Pramanik (Supervisor: Dr. S. P. Rath), Mr. Tanmoy Khan (Supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen) and Mr. Ashwini Kumar (Supervisor: Dr. Ritika Gautam) have been awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2020 under the lateral entry.

• Dr. Bhaskar Paul, Dr. Jadhav Santosh Digambarrao, Dr. Prithwidip Saha, Dr. Deepti Kalsi and Dr. Sakthi Raje have been selected for the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2020 by IIT Kanpur.

• Dr. Sabuj K. Kundu has been awarded the Best Presentation Award in Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications; VCCA-2020. The VCCA-2020 conference was organized by the University of Mauritius and it was endorsed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

• Prof. D. Goswami has been elected as the Chair of the Instrument Science and Technology Group Committee of Institute of Physics (IOP), London, for a period of 4 years.

• Dr. G. Anantharaman has been selected for the Research Excellence Award for Oral presentation at International Seminar on “Recent Advances in Chemistry & Material Sciences (2020)” organized by the Indian Chemical Society.

• Dr. I. Avinash (recently finished PhD from Dr. G. Anantharaman's group) has been selected for the S. S. Bhatnagar Young Scientist Award for Oral presentation at International Seminar on “Recent Advances in Chemistry & Material Sciences (2020)” organized by the Indian Chemical Society.

• Prof. S. P. Rath has been awarded the Professor R S Varma Memorial Award for the year 2020 by Indian Chemical Society.

• Prof. S. Manogaran has been selected as one of the recipients of the Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2020 of the Institute.

• PhD students selected from interview conducted on 20-08-2020

• Prof. J. K. Bera has been selected for the Silver Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in chemistry. The medal will be presented in one of the CRSI National Meetings to be held in 2021.

• Mr. Gaurav Goswami (Ph D student of Prof. M. Ghorai) has been awarded a best poster award at INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FRONTIER AREAS of CHEMISTRY (ICFAC) during February 28-29, 2020 in Department of Chemistry - Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar.

• Ms. Swati Gupta (from the research group of Prof. R Gurunath) has been awarded the best oral presentation prize in Student Indian Peptide Symposium (sIPS-2020) held during February 20-21, 2020 in Madurai Kamaraj University, India.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been invited to join the editorial board of Science Advances as an Associate Editor. Science Advances is an open access multidisciplinary journal published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

• Prof. Vinod K. Singh has been elected as the President of the Chemical Research Society of India for next three years (2020-2023).

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited to become a Member, Governing Board, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), New Delhi.

• Prof. Sankar P. Rath has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).

• Prof. D. Goswami has been invited to join the Editorial Board of PLOS One as an ‘Academic Editor’. PLOS One is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science since 2006.

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been awarded the Merck Young Scientist award in a recent ceremony held at Bangalore on 27th Dec, 2019.

• Mr. Bholanath Garai (19107271) and Mr. Anubhav Nath (19107268) have been selected for Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF).

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Banaras Hindu University.

• Prof. J.N. Moorthy has been awarded the SASTRA-CNR Rao Award for excellence in Chemistry and Materials Science for the year 2020.

• Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu has been awarded the Har Govind Khorana Innovative Biotechnologist Award of DBT.

• Ms. Sadhna Shah (research group of Prof. V K Singh) has received the second best poster award in the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry conference at RMIT Australia.

• Prof. N. N. Nair and Dr. T. G. Gopakumar have been chosen for the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Institute for 2019.

• Ms. Khyati Shukla from the group of Prof. V. K. Singh has received a best oral presentation award in the meeting "Chemical Frontiers Goa", 2019.

• Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu and Dr. Ishita Sengupta were awarded CRSI Young Scientist Award at the CRSI National Symposium held at IIT Kanpur during July 19-21, 2019.

• Dr. D. H. Dethe has been selected for the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).

• Prof. P.K. Bharadwaj has been offered the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay.

• Prof. MLN Rao has been selected as the USV Chair of IIT Kanpur for a period of three years.

• Prof. S.P. Rath has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the journal ‘Chirality’ published by Wiley, USA.

• Dr. Basker Sundararaju has been invited to serve as an associate editor of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry (JHC) published by Wiley-Blackwell (United States).

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been appointed as the Secretary of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).

• Mr. Abhinav Gupta (PhD student of Dr. Nisanth Nair), Ms. Nidhi Sorout and Ms. Deepika (PhD students of Prof. Amalendu Chandra) received PCCP best poster prizes at the Workshop and Symposium on Advanced Simulation Methods: DFT, MD and Beyond (ASM-2019) held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, during 06-09, March 2019.

• Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been appointed as the Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

• Mr. Bidhan Hazra (PhD student of Dr. Manabendra Chandra) received a ‘best poster award’ for his presentation at the 16th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2019) at BITS Pilani, during February 13-16, 2019.

• Mr. Banshi Das and Ms. Nidhi Sorout (PhD students of Prof. Amalendu Chandra) received ‘best poster awards’ for their presentation at the conference “Dynamics at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology” held at IISc Bangalore during February 18-20, 2019.

• Dr. Sabuj Kundu has been selected for the Young Faculty Research Fellowship of IIT Kanpur.

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for the Goyal prize of Kurukshetra University.

• Prof. J.K. Bera has been awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST.

• Prof. Debabrata Goswami has been honored by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as SPIE Fellow (2019).

• Prof. Manas K. Ghorai has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc).

• Dr. Sarvesh K. Pandey (Ph.D. from Prof. S. Manogaran) has been selected for the "Best Thesis Award - 2019" in Chemical Sciences by the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB).

• Dr. Abhijit Mal (Ph.D. from Prof. Manas K. Ghorai) has been chosen for Sailife-NOST Best Thesis Award 2018.

• Inorganica Chemica Acta, a prominent international journal of Inorganic Chemistry, has published a special issue in honor of Prof. R. N. Mukherjee on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Link..

• Prof. Sandeep Verma has been invited by ChemBioChem to serve on its Editorial Advisory Board.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been awarded the “2018 ICO Galileo Galilei Award” by the International Commission for Optics.

• Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been selected for the Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).

• Prof. S.P. Rath has been selected for the C N R Rao National Prize in Chemical Sciences instituted by C N R Rao Educational Foundation and Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).

• Mr. Anjani Kumar Pandey, PhD student of Prof. S.P. Rath, has received the best poster award in 23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-23) held at IISER Bhopal from 13-15th July, 2018.

• Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, and Director of IISER Bhopal, has been awarded the Professor Subramania Ranganathan Memorial Medal (2018) of Indian National Science Academy.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been elected as a Fellow of The Institute of Physics (IOP), UK.

• Dr Nisanth N Nair has received the "Distinguished Lectureship Award" by the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), in the field of Theoretical Chemistry, during its 98th annual meeting held in Nihon University, Funabashi, Japan (March 20-23, 2018).

• Dr Basker Sunderaraju has been invited to be a member of Early Career Advisory Board for the journal ACS Catalysis.

• Dr. Pratik Sen, Dr. M. Chandra and Dr. T. G. Gopakumar have been awarded Young Faculty Research Fellowship by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India, for a period of 5 years.

• On the occasion of the Foundation Day celebration of Uttar Pradesh (UP Diwas: January 24, 2018), Prof. Vinod K Singh and Prof. Sandeep Verma have been chosen for felicitation by the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh for their remarkable accomplishments in their profession.

• Prof. Jitendra K. Bera has been invited to join as an Associate Editor of "Applied Organometallic Chemistry" (AOC, Wiley Interscience).

• Mr Saikat Das (Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe), Mr. Hilal Ahmad Pal (Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma), Mr. Bapan Saha (Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath) and Ms. Deepti Kalsi (Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju) are awarded the best poster awards in the recently concluded Organic Chemistry Symposium at IIT Kanpur.

• Mr. Mrigank Singh Verma, PhD student of Dr M Chandra, has received 'RSC Best Poster Award' at the National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry and Materials (CCM 2017), at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, during Dec 21-22, 2017.

• Mr. Vipin Mishra, Ph. D student in the group of Dr Gopakumar, has received the best paper presentation award at the International Conference on Thin Film (ICTF-17), held during Nov 13-17, 2017, at CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India.

• Dr. Ashis K. Patra has been awarded HRSMC (Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry) Fellowship at Leiden University.

• Mr. Sagarmoy Mondal (PhD student of Dr. Nisanth Nair) has been awarded the Best Poster Award in CPMD 2017, held at Tsukuba, Japan (Oct 18-20, 2017).

• Prof. J. N. Moorthy has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

• Prof. S.Verma has been selected for the MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize of the Materials Research Society of India for the year 2018.

• Prof. J. K. Bera has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

• Prof. K. Srihari has been awarded the prestigious INSA Teachers Award (2017).

• Prof. Amalendu Chandra and Prof. Sankar P. Rath have been elected as Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2017.

• Prof. D. Goswami has been nominated as a honorable Member, Board of Governors, Uttar Pradesh Textile Training Institute, Kanpur.