Current Position  

 

• Presently, Senior Scientist, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (Govt. of India) - Bhavnagar since 2011 in Membrane Sciencee  & Separation Division.

• Scientist Fellow, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (Govt. of India) - Bhavnagar from 2009 to 2011.

 

Post Doctoral Research Experience

 

• Senior Research Associate (2006-2009), Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA (Prof. Joseph P. Kennedy)

• Post Doctoral Research Associate (2005-2006), LCPO-ENSCPB, University of Bordeaux, France (Prof. Y. Gnanou)

• Research Associate, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Prof. B. M. Mandal), Jadavpur, Kolkata, India.

 

Education

 

• Ph.D. 2005 (Polymer Chemistry), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India (Prof. B. M. Mandal, Thesis Advisor).

• Thesis title: “Physicochemical Studies of Control Radical Polymerization of Acrylamide.’’

• Master of Science 1999, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

 

Academic awards/Fellowships

 

• CNRS Fellowship, University of Bordeaux, France (May, 2005-April, 2006)

 

• National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, USA, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron (2006-2009).

 

• NET “National Eligibility Test” (Joint CSIR-UGC June’ 1999) for Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship.

 

• GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in 1999.

 

• Postgraduate Scholarship (IIT Kharagpur) from 1997 to 1999.