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Department of Chemistry,
BITS-Pilani- K. K. Birla Goa Campus
 
Contact Details
 
Chamber no. C-221
 
Department of Chemistry 

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani K. K. Birla Goa Campus

Zuarinagar, Goa - 403726, India
 
Email: mainak@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
 
Phone: 08322580-347(Office)
 
 
About the Faculty
 
Education
 
Ph. D.     2006    Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (degree obtained from Jadavpur University)
Title “Synthetic studies on rearranged linear abietane diterpenoids and related compounds” 
 
M. Sc.    1998   Calcutta University      Chemistry (spl in Organic Chemistry)
 
B. Sc.    1996   Calcutta University      Hons. in Chemistry
 
 

Professional Experience

 2021, June– till date                 Professor                            Department of Chemistry,
                                                                                             BITS-Pilani- K. K. Birla Goa Campus

2016, June– 2021, June

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry,
BITS-Pilani- K. K. Birla Goa Campus

2009, Apr – 2016, May

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry,
BITS-Pilani- K. K. Birla Goa Campus

 

2007, Aug – 2009, Feb

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

POSTECH,  Republic of Korea

(Supervisor: Prof. Kimoon Kim)

2006, Aug – 2007, July 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Pusan National University, Republic of Korea.

 

Research Interests:   Green Chemistry, Mechanochemistry, Microwave Synthesis, Supramolecular Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Method development

 

Administrative Experience:
2009-till date
Nucleus Member, Instruction and ARC Division BITS, Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa. Campus, Goa
2013-2021
Warden of AH-9, CH-3. BITS, Pilani - K.K.Birla Goa Campus, Goa.
2014-2016 Nucleus member of Departmental Research Council.

2016-till date Member of Senate, BITS, Pilani
2017-2019 Convener, Departmental Research Committee
2017-2021,  Departmental Committee for Academics
2022-till date member, Departmental Research Committee
 

 

Membership of Professional Societies:

Member of American Chemical Society.

Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC).

Life member of Indian Association of Cultivation of Sciences.

Life member of Chemical Research Society, India.

Life member of Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists, India (ACCTI).

Life member of Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences, India (ISRAPS, No. 522).

 Life member of Association of Separation Scientists and Technologists (ASSET)

 Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry (from 2022)

 
 
 
 

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