Welcome to Photophysics and Chemical Dynamics Lab

Dr. Partha Hazra
Designation: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IISER Pune Maharashtra 411021, India
Education: Ph.D,IIT Kharagpur
Research Interests: Investigation of photo-physical properties of organic molecules with the help of both steady state and time resolved fluorescence spectroscopic techniques.
Phone: 020-25908077, Fax: 020-25899790
E-mail: p.hazra@iiserpune.ac.in

Dr. Debdeep Chakrabarty
Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Serampore College, West Bengal, India
Education: Ph.D,IIT Kharagpur
Research Interests: Study of excited state intramolecular proton transfer, solvation dynamics in different organized assembly using steady state & time resolved fluorescence  spectroscopic techniques.
Phone:  +91-9434217915
E-mail: debdeepchem@gmail.com

Dr. Anjan Chakraborty
Designation: Associate Professor, IIT Indore
Madhya Pradesh, India
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur
Research Interests: Photophysics of drug molecules and Study of different biological systems by fluorescence spectroscopy.
Phone: +91-9589116522
E-mail: anjanchem@rediffmail.com

Dr. Debabrata Seth
Designation: Associate Professor, IIT Patna, Bihar, India
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur
Research Interests: Photochemistry and Chemical Dynamics
Email: debabrata@iitp.ac.in
Phone: +91-612-2552028

Dr. Rajib Pramanik
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2011
Research Interests: Dynamics of solvent and rotational relaxation in room temperature ionic liquid containing mixed solvents and microheterogeneous systems.
Email: rajib.chem@gmail.com

Dr. Palash Setua
Designation: Asst. Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pingla Thana Mahavidyalaya, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2011
Research Interests: Nonaqueous reverse micelles as templating media and investigation of solvent relaxation in organized assembly containing nanoparticle
Email: palashsetua@gmail.com

Dr. Souravi Sarkar
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2012
Research Interests: Photophysical and dynamical studies in solvent mixture, room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and RTIL containing confined media.
Email: souravi.sarkar@gmail.com

Dr. Chiranjib Ghatak
Designation:: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College, Kolkata, WB 
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2012
Research Interests: Fluorescence Spectroscopic Investigation of Various Photophysical and Dynamical Phenomena inside Biologically Relevant Environment.
Email: c.ghatak79@gmail.com

Dr. Vishal Govind Rao
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bowling Green State University, United States. (Advisor: Prof. H. Peter Lu)
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2013.
Research Interests: Preparation and Characterization of Different Microheterogeneous Systems Containing Ionic Liquids: Investigations of Various Photophysical and Dynamical Phenomena
E-mail: vgriitkgp@gmail.com

Dr. Sarthak Mondal
Designation: Assistant Professor at NIT Trichy
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2014.
Research Interests: Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer, Energy Transfer and Solvation Dynamics in Biologically Relevant Self-Assemblies, Room Temperature Ionic Liquid and Binary Solutions
E-mail: sarthakmandal@gmail.com

Dr. Chiranjib Banerjee
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Advisor: Prof Elias Puchner)
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2015
Research Interests: Photophysics and Dynamics of Different Fluorophores in Confined Media
E-mail: chiranjibbanerjee1@gmail.com

Dr. Surajit Ghosh
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Arizona, Arizona, United States (Advisor: Prof. Craig A Aspinwall)
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2015
Research Interests: Dynamics of Solvation, Photoisomerisation and Proton transfer in microheterogenous systems consisting of Surfactants,Polymers and RTILs
E-mail:sghosh4588@gmail.com

Dr. Jagannath Kuchlyan
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of  Biophotonics and Pharmacology, University of  Strausbourg (Advisor: Professor Yves Mely)
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
Research Interests: Investigation of Various Photophysical and Dynamical Phenomena Using Different Spectroscopic and Microscopic Techniques.
E-mail: jkuchlyan@gmail.com

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Saini
Designation:
Education: Post Doc., IIT Kharagpur, 2017
Research Interests: Investigation of photoinduced electron transfer reaction in different homogeneous solvents.
E-mail: rksaini@chem.iitkgp.ernet.in

Dr. Arpita Roy
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington, St. Louis, USA (Advisor: Professor D. Holten)
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
Research Interests: Morphological Alteration of Various Self-assemblies and Its Effect on Different Excited Sate Processes.
E-mail: arpitaroychemistry@chem.iitkgp.ernet.in

Dr. Debasis Banik
Designation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering., USA (Advisor: Professor Matthew J. Lang
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2018
Research Interests: Investigation of Different Photophysical and Dynamical Processes within Self-Organized Systems and Inhibition Strategies of Fibrillar Assemblies formed by Single Amino Acids.
E-mail: banik.debasis@gmail.com

Dr. Niloy Kundu
Designation:
Education: Ph.D, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
Research Interests: Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Unveil different Photophysical Phenomena inside Biologically Relevant Environment: From Ensemble Average to Single Molecule Measurements.
E-mail: niloy.kgp@gmail.com