About RM
RM was born in Howrah, WB, India. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Presidency College under the University of Calcutta in 2006. After that, he moved to northeast India to get an MSc degree from IIT Guwahati in 2008. He got the first essence of research in the lab of Prof T. Punniyamurthy as a master's project student.
He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in the group of Prof. Ashoka G. Samuelson on bio-organometallic chemistry in 2014.
Subsequently, he moved to Germany for his postdoctoral studies. After a stay at MPI Kohlenforschung with Prof. Klaus-Richard Pörschke (2014–2015), he moved to the University of Duisburg-Essen to learn about supramolecular chemistry and mechanically interlocked molecules with Prof. Jochen Niemeyer from 2015 to 2017.
He worked in the group of Prof. Benjamin List at MPI Kohlenforschung, working on asymmetric catalysis from 2017 to 2018. In September 2018, he joined as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Materials Sciences (SCMS) at IIT Goa.
Since November 2023, he has been working as an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Materials Sciences (SCMS) at IIT Goa.
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EDUCATION
2003 - 2006
BSc (Hons)
Presidency College, University of Calcutta
2006 - 2008
MSc
Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati
2008 - 2014
PhD
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bengaluru
Professional Experiences
2024- Chair, Laboratory Safety Committee
2024- Chair, GATE-JAM, IIT Goa
2024- Faculty Co-ordinator, CoE PCI
2023- Associate Professor, SCMS, IIT Goa
2021-2026 "Head of Max Planck India Partner Group", Max Planck Society
2020-2022 Faculty Co-ordinator, Chemistry Program
2019-2022 Faculty Co-ordinator, Sports Activity
2019- Nodal Officer for ISTEM
2019-2023 Assistant Professor (Gr I), SCMS, IIT Goa
2018-2019 Assistant Professor (Gr II), SCBS, IIT Goa
Awards and Recognition
2008 Silver Medalist, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India.
2014 Postdoctoral Fellowship from Max Planck Society.
2021 Thieme Journal Award 2021
2021 Head of Max Planck Indian Partner Group
2023 Director's Commendation Letters for teaching, IIT Goa
2025 Director's Commendation Letters for teaching, IIT Goa
2025 Excellence in Teaching Awards, IIT Goa
Invited Lectures
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"Ligand-Controlled Catalytic Activity of Pd complexes" in ICCS 2025, IIT Hyderabad, 16-07-2025, Hyderabad.
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"Sustainable C-N bond forming reaction" in IIT Goa and Dhofar University - Virtual workshop, 18-06-2025. (Online)
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"Catalytic activity of phosphine ligated Pd complexes" in RTC 2025, The American College, Madurai, 14-03-2025, Madurai.
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"CO2 Reduction by Transition Metal-Based Molecular Catalysts" in ICAMHEE-2025, IUST Kashmir, 28-02-2025. (Online)
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"Catalytic activity of phosphine ligated Pd complexes" in AFMA 2025, BITS Goa, 22-02-205, Goa.
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“One-pot synthesis of triarylamine by Pd-catalyzed C–N cross-coupling” in Symposium on “Sustainable Organic Synthesis 2024” (SoS 2024), 20-12-2024, Berhampur University, Odisha.
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“Functional mechanically interlocked molecules: synthesis and catalysis” in SupraSys 2024, Indo-German Bilateral workshop, 20-09-2024, Goa.
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“Transition Metal-Based Molecular Catalyst for Photo- and Electrocatalyzed CO2 reduction” in CatChemPro 2024, Indo-German Bilateral workshop, 23-08-2024, Goa.
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“Organometallic Re(I) complexes for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction” in 30th 'International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry' (ICOMC 2024), 16-07-2024, Agra.
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REACTA, Govt College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Khandola, Marcel-Goa, March 2019. As a Chief Guest on "Metals in Medicine and Anticancer Activity of Organometallic Ru Complexes".
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17th Annual Convention of ACT-Goa, Govt College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Khandola, MarcelGoa, February 2019. As a Guest speaker on "Metals in Medicine".