Dr. Swadhin K. Mandal, FRSC Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian institute of Science Education and Research - Kolkata. Office Address: TRC Room No 316, Research Complex, IISER-Kolkata Email: [email protected] SHORT CV |
Swadhin K. Mandal is currently a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, in Chemical Sciences. He also holds the position of Visiting Professor at IIT Mumbai from 2020−2022. In 2022, he has been awarded the prestigious Erna and Jakob Michael Visiting Professorship at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He obtained his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. S. S. Krishnamurthy at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, USA, with Prof. Robert C. Haddon and an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Göttingen, Germany, with Prof. Herbert W. Roesky. His current research interests include a wide range of areas, such as organometallic catalysis using base metals and main-group metals, metal-free CO2 fixation and its conversion into fuels, alternative approaches for C−H bond functionalization using radicals, the development of spin electronic materials, and the discovery of new anticancer drugs based on supramolecular assembly. He was a recipient of the Young Investigators Meeting Boston award in 2012 for his contributions to organometallic catalysis. He has served as an international editorial advisory member for the ACS journals Organometallics from 2013− 2015 and in Inorganic Chemistry from 2018−2021. Currently, he is acting as an advisory board member in the RSC flagship journal Chemical Science. He was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, 2020 by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He has received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences for 2018, India. He has also received the SERB Distinguished Investigator award. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry.