Srimani Lab
Catalysis for Sustainable Future
Ph.D. Students
Dr.Avijit Mondal
PhD Awarded in 2024
Thesis Title : Designing Bifunctional Mn(I) and Mn(II) Complexes to Control Selectivity in De(hydrogenative) Transformations.
Current Position : Post Doctoral Fellow University of California, Riverside USA Supervisor: Prof. Matthew Conley
Dr. Rahul Sharma
PhD Awarded in 2025
Thesis Title :Designing SNS and NNO Donor Ni and Co Complexes Toward (De)hydrogenative Alcohol Activation: A Sustainable Approach to C-C and C-N Bond Construction.
Current Position : Assistant Professor,
Arya Vidyapeeth College
Dr.Debjyoti Pal
PhD Awarded in 2025
Thesis Title : Catalytic (De)hydrogenative Annulation by Well-defined Mn(I) and Co(II)-complexes for the Construction of N-Heterocycle.
Dr. Mithu Roy
PhD Awarded in 2026
Thesis Title : Light - Driven Molecular Complexity : Cascade Functionalisation of Alkynes via Selenium and/or Sulfonyl Radicals.
Current Position :
Current Position : Post Doctoral Fellow University of Stuttgart, Germany Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael R. Buchmeiser
Dr.Kalicharan Das
PhD Awarded in 2020
Thesis Title : Synthesis of Tridentate NNS-Ligand Derived Manganese Complexes and Their Application towards Acceptorless Dehydration and Borrowing Hydrogen Catalysis.
Current Position : Assistant PGT in Govt. School, West Bengal
Dr. Bitan Sardar
PhD Awarded in 2023
Thesis Title : Exploring the Potential of Homogeneous Ru-SNS/NNS Complexes and Heterogeneous Ru-Hydrotalcite in De(hydrogenative) Transformations.
Current Position : Post-Doctoral Fellow; Institute of Science Tokyo , Japan.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Masaki Kawano
Dr. Nandita Biswas
PhD Awarded in 2021
Thesis Title : Applicability of NNS and SNS Ligand Derived Air-stable Ru Complexes Towards de (hydrogenative) Construction of Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond.
Current Position : Post-Doctoral Fellow; University of Rennes, France.
Supervisor: Dr. Evgueni Kirillov & prof. Jean Francisco Carpertier
Postdoctorate
NPDF (SERB)
Duration: 2019-2021
Current Position : Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar
Dr.T. S. Manikandan
IPDF
Duration: 2019-2021
Current Position :
Dr.Sundarraman Balaji
NPDF (SERB)
Duration: 2022-2024
Current Position :
Dr.Akash Mondal
IPDF
Duration: 2023-2025
Current Position :
Dr.Ramen Jamatia
M.Sc. Students
Ujjwal K. Tripathi
2025
Current Position : Ph.D. at Ruhr- Universitat Bochum
Anirban Bera
2025
Current Position : Ph.D. at IIT Kharagpur
Advisor : Dr. Suman Kalyan Samanta
Soumen Ghosh
2024
Current Position :
Manami Mahapatra
2024
Current Position :
Advisor : Dr. Lukas J. Goossen
Advisor :
Advisor :
Amit Chaubey
2023
Current Position : Ph.D. at Purdue University
Advisor : Dr. Gabriel J. Lovinger
Chandrika Ghosh
2023
Current Position : Ph.D. at University of St. Andrews
Advisor : Dr. Amit Kumar
Saurabh Kumar
2022
Current Position : Ph.D at IISER Bhopal
Advisor : Dr. Joyanta Choudhury
Bikram Pal
2022
Current Position :Executive Officer at NALCO
Advisor :
Bishal Dutta
2021
Current Position : Ph.D. at IIT BOMBAY
Advisor : Dr. Debabrata Maiti
Kanabeni Rajkumar
2021
Current Position :
Advisor :
Mohananda Samanta
2020
Current Position :
Advisor :
Suman Maji
2020
Current Position : Ph.D. at IIT BOMBAY
Advisor : Dr. Debabrata Maiti
Souvik Roy
2017
Current Position :
Advisor :
Summer Internship
1. Samiran Kar (June 2018)
2. Pranjal Borah (June 2019)
3. Elinda Basumatary (Mar 2022)
4. Purti Patel (June 2022)
5. Tushar Khairwal (June 2022)
6. Sangeeta Devi (Jan-Feb 2023)
7. Palash Das (June-July 2023)
8. Kaushik Soni (July 2023 )
9. Priyankar Majumder (Sept-jan 2023 )
10. Angshuman Sarma (Dec 2023)
11. Smit Nandkishore Tavate (Jun 2024)
12. Afreen (Dec 2024)
13. Sidharth Vijayan (June-July)