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Dr. Prosenjit Daw

Dr. Prosenjit Daw obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta (INDIA). He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur, India), where he works on N-heterocyclic carbene-based organometallics catalyst and their application in organic transformation in the group of Prof. Jitendra K. Bera with Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPMF). In 2015, he moved to Israel as a post-doctoral fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science with a Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) fellowship and worked with Prof. David Milstein.

He joined the Department of Chemical Sciences at IISER Berhampur as an Assistant Professor in 2019, and became an Associate Professor in 2025. His research interests are in the development of new synthetic methodologies based on hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of organic molecules and small molecule activation sustainable catalysts.

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Honors and Awards

  • Senior Postdoctoral fellowship of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, (2018-19)

  • Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) fellowship of the Council for Higher Education, Israel. (2015-2018)

  • Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPMF), 2009, in chemical science by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.

  • Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Chemistry (2009).

  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE): 2009. All India Rank: 28

  • Recipient of Merit-cum-Means (MCM) scholarship (2007-2009) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

  • Joint Admission Test to M.Sc. (JAM) 2007. All India Rank: 2.

Member

  • Life-member of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)

  • Life-member of Orissa Chemical Society (OCS)

Teaching

CHM 101: General Chemistry Inorganic

CHM 102: Chemistry Laboratory I

CHM 104: Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory I

CHM 304: Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (advance)

CHM 614: Advanced Organic Chemistry III (organometallic approach)

CHM 302: Chemistry of Transition Metals Inorganic

CHM 609: Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry​

CHM 401: Non-transition Metal ChemistryInorganic Chemistry​

Experiences

Associate Professor (March 2025- till now)

Department of Chemical Science

IISER Berhampur

 

Assistant Professor (Sept 2019- Feb 2025)

Department of Chemical Science

IISER Berhampur

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (2015-2019)

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Advisor: Prof. David Milstein

Education

Ph.D (2009-2015)

Department of Chemistry,

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

 

M.Sc. (2007-09)

Department of Chemistry,

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

 

B.Sc. (2003-2006)

University of Calcutta,                  

West Bengal, India.

Invited Talks & Conferences

  • Invited talk, National Seminar on “Frontiers in Chemical Sciences-II” (FCS-II), Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, March 2025​

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  • Invited talk, Viswabharati University, January 2025

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  • Invited talk, SOS-24, Berhampur University, December 2024

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  • Invited talk, MTIC-24, IIT Kharagpur, December 2024

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  • Invited talk, ICOMC24, Agra, July 2024

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  • Invited talk, Inter IISER-NISER Chemistry meet on Sustainability & Interdisciplinary in Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata, February 2024

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  • Invited talk, MTM-OCS-24, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, 05-06 January 2024

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  • CRSI-NIT Raurkela; Poster chair person; 37th Annual Conference of OCS & National Conference; July 2023.

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  • Invited talk, MTIC-19, Benarash Hindu University, December 2022

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  • Invited online talk, ACS Organometallic, Online, 28th November 2022

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  • Invited talk, FORCE, IICS 2020, Agra. 29-31 July, 2022

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  • Invited talk, National Organic Synthesis Conference N-COS 2020, Berhampur University, Berhampur. 2-3 March 2020

Poster/Oral Presentation (PhD & PDF)

  • Gordon Research Conference on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms in Galveston, TX United States, 10-15 March 2019. (Poster presentation)

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  • 11th CaRLa Winter School, 2018 on Homogeneous Catalysis, organized by BASF and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 18-23 February, 2018. (Oral & poster presentation).

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  • EuCOMC 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9-13 July, 2017 (Poster presentation)

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  • 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC), New Delhi, India, 17-20 October, 2011 (Poster presentation)

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  • Celebration of Chemistry@IITK, IIT Kanpur, 3-5 December, 2011. (Poster presentation)

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  • Indo-French Collaborative Meeting-2014, NIISER, Bhubaneswar, India 24-26 February, 2014. (Poster presentation)

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  • Chemfest 2014, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, India. (Oral presentation)

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