Dr Biswajit Saha
Senior Scientist & Assistant Professor (AcSIR)
Advanced Materials Group
Materials Sciences and Technology Division
CSIR – North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam – 785006
Mob: +91 9889703614
bischem@gmail.com, bsaha@neist.res.in
Twitter: bischem007
Orcid Id: 0000-0001-6371-1545
2016 - 2020: Scientist, AMG, MSTD, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat
Post Doc:
PBC Post Doctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Host: Prof. Dmitri Gelman
IITK Post Doctoral Fellow, IIT Kanpur. Host: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera
EMINTE Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam. Host: Prof. Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt
PhD: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera.
Thesis Title: ‘Metal∙∙∙Metal and Metal∙∙∙Ligand Cooperation in Organometallic Catalysis- Designing Diruthenium(I)-NHC (N-heterocyclic carbene) Catalysts for Organic Transformation’
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MSc: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
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BSc: Belur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira College Affiliated to University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
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Awards
Early Career Research Award from DST-SERB
2nd Prize of 2014 Lilly Outstanding Thesis Awards consists of $1000 and a Lilly Plaque.
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
IITK Post Doctoral Fellowship.
PBC Post Doctoral Fellowship at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and
Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, India).
Somnath Banarjee Memorial Award for securing 1st Class in B. Sc at Belur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, India (2005).
Seminar and Invited Talk
Invited talk in 'Trends in Organometallics' organized by ACS Organometallics on 28th November 2022
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Invited talk on 'Multifaceted Research in chemistry' by Model Christian College, Kohima, Nagaland on 17th April 2021
Invited talk in Summer research Training Program (SRTP) 2020
Invited talk 'NEIST Science Forum' on 30th January 2020
Presented research idea in 48th and 50th Research Council Meeting at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat
Poster presented at India International Science Festival Kolkata in 2019
Represented CSIR-NEIST at India International Trade Fair, New Delhi in 2017
Invited talk on the 14th CRSI and 6th RSC symposium in Chemistry at Trivandrum, India on 3rd February 2012; Title: ‘Site-Directed Anchoring of Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) on A Dimetal Platform’
Invited talk on ‘Chemfest’ (in house symposium) at department of chemistry, IIT Kanpur on 16th April 2011; Title: ‘Towards Designer Catalyst’
Poster presentation: ‘Site-Directed Anchoring of N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) on Dimetal Platform: A Diruthenium(I) Carbene-Transfer Catalyst from Ethyl Diazoacetate’ in Frontier in Inorganic Chemistry at Indian Association Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India, December (2010).
Poster presentation: ‘Multifaceted Coordination of Naphthyridine-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene’ in 100 year Celebration of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India (2008).
Attended 1st German–Indian Symposium on “Frontiers of Chemistry” held at IIT Kanpur (26-28th October, 2007).
Attended the Chemfest symposium organized by Chemistry Department, IIT Kanpur, India (31st October, 2009).