Curriculum Vitae

 Education

Ph.D.

Chemistry

[physical chemistry and spectroscopy]

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India 2001
M.Phil.

Chemistry

[physico-organic chemistry specialization]

Department of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Burla, Orissa, India 1997
M.Sc.

Chemistry

[organic chemistry specialization]

Department of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Burla, Orissa, India 1996
B.Sc.

Chemistry [hons];

Physics, Mathematics

Government College Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi, Orissa, India 1994

 Professional Experience

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry, American University of Beirut, Lebanon since 2007

Visiting Lecturer

Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan 2006-07

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

(with Prof. Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr.)

Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan 2005-06

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

(with Prof. Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr.)

Okazaki Institute for Integrative Biosciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan. 2004 -05

Europe Research Fellowship

(with Prof. Johan Hofkens)

Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. June-July 2003

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow

(with Prof. Jörg Enderlein)

 Institute of Biological Information Processing -1, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany 2002-04

Postdoctoral Fellow

(with Prof. Werner M. Nau)

Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland 2001-02

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

(with Prof. A. K. Mishra)

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India 2001