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Department of Chemistry

Established in July 2004, the Department of Chemistry at BITS, Pilani -KK Birla Goa Campus has marked its presence in Academia within India and abroad. The department is focused in both teaching and high-quality research (basic and multidisciplinary) in the frontier areas of chemistry and its interface with allied disciplines. Our mission and vision is to excel in teaching, innovative research and academia-industry collaboration and to propagate the same to become a leader in the field of chemistry and allied interdisciplinary domains. The department offers core courses in Chemistry for Undergraduate B.E. students of engineering. In addition, it offers 4 Yr Integrated 1st Deg Program (M.Sc. Chemistry) and Ph.D. program. The thrust areas of research includes water & environment, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, organic synthesis, physical chemistry, computational chemistry, biophysical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry and medicinal chemistry. The department is well equipped with state-of-the-art research facilities, library resources (e-journals) and has established collaborations with various national and international laboratories. We aim to produce professionals and innovative leaders to meet needs of academia, industry and government through outcome-based education.

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Programmes Offered

The department is offering first degree M.Sc. Chemistry program and the Doctoral program (Ph.D. program). The admission to Ph.D. program is announced twice a year. Institute fellowship is also offered to deserving candidates qualified in the written test and interview.

Research

The department, right from its inception has given high priority for research. The faculty is actively engaged in cutting edge research in the frontier areas of inorganic, organic, physical, analytical and theoretical chemistry. Till date, the department has received over 40 sponsored research projects from various national and international agencies with funding amounting to more than Rs. 16 crore. The major funding agencies are (Dept. of Science & Technology DST, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR, India, Indian Council for Agricultural Research ICAR & The World Bank, Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences BRNS, India, Department of Biotechnology, India, The Swedish Research Council, Sweden, The Royal Academy of Engineering UK, EU-DST,HORIZON. Currently there are 61 Research Scholars in the department.

Scholars

Saloni Rajesh Chavan

Ph.D. Supervisor - P. Bhavana,
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Swaraj Ganesh Gaonkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Subhasish Roy,
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Saptaparna Sinhababu

Ph.D. Supervisor - Saurav Bhattacharya, PhD,
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Tanush Sharma

Ph.D. Supervisor - Amrita Chatterjee,
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Krishna Aravind P

Ph.D. Supervisor - Narendra Nath Ghosh, FRSC,
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Shravya B

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Pritam Saha

Ph.D. Supervisor - Uttara Basu, PhD,
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Priyadarshan Badatya

Ph.D. Supervisor - Woormileela Sinha, Ph. D,
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Anisha Mishra

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dr. Anjan Chattopadhyay,
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Eshita Kakodkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ranjan Dey,
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Sawant Rahul Vilas

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sanjay Kumar,
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Kedar Raghunath Khaparkhuntikar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Pooja Dilip Vishwakarma

Ph.D. Supervisor - Amrita Chatterjee,
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Komal Rajendra Gawade

Ph.D. Supervisor - Kiran Vankayala,
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Nirmal Kumar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sunil Bhand,
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Abhinandan Bera

Ph.D. Supervisor - Subhasish Roy,
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Athul Krishna M

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Praseeda P. Nair

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ranjan Dey,
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Apoorva Maruti Pai

Ph.D. Supervisor - Kiran Vankayala,
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Abboy Chatterjee

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Ankita Sinha

Ph.D. Supervisor - Subhadeep Banerjee,
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Rajshekhar Balagi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rabi Narayan Panda,
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Naveen Raj Abraham

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Himani Arora

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Shirsat Ashitosh Abhiman

Ph.D. Supervisor - Uttara Basu, PhD,
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Rida Hashmi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sunil Bhand,
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Rolee Varma

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ranjan Dey,
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Nidhi Nitin Parmekar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rashmi Chauhan,
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Truptesh Mulgaonkar

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Darshana Anand Uper

Ph.D. Supervisor - Narendra Nath Ghosh, FRSC,
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Abigail Bibiana Pinheiro

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Amanda Ana Pinheiro

Ph.D. Supervisor - Amrita Chatterjee,
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Neha Gupta

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sudipta Chatterjee,
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Lakshmi Rajan

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sunil Bhand,
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Nikam Rajeshwari Arun

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dr. Anjan Chattopadhyay,
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Neelamma M. K

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sunil Bhand,
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Atul Patel

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Ankit Thakuri

Ph.D. Supervisor - Amrita Chatterjee,
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Karmur Rajeshvari Samatbhai

Ph.D. Supervisor - Narendra Nath Ghosh, FRSC,
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Gaonkar Asmita Dileep

Ph.D. Supervisor - Kiran Vankayala,
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Soumik Saha

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Gregory A Anderson

Ph.D. Supervisor - Raghu Nath Behera,
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Chetan Sudhir Joshi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Shobha Mule

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sunil Bhand,
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Gawade Narayan Umesh

Ph.D. Supervisor - P. Bhavana,
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Khusboo Dubey

Ph.D. Supervisor - Raghu Nath Behera,
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Waghchoure Nehal Ashok

Ph.D. Supervisor - K. P. Jayadevan,
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Jemi Gandhi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Sapna Sudan

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sunil Bhand,
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Patil Anagha Baburao

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rabi Narayan Panda,
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Laxman Raikar Govind

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Shraddha Paniya

Ph.D. Supervisor - Kiran Vankayala,
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Tanya Raghava

Ph.D. Supervisor - Subhadeep Banerjee,
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Dilawar Singh Sisodiya

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dr. Anjan Chattopadhyay,
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Shubham Bajpai

Ph.D. Supervisor - Raghu Nath Behera,
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Bhosle Akhil Adinath

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Aditi Prabhune

Ph.D. Supervisor - Ranjan Dey,
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Ruchika Bassan

Ph.D. Supervisor - Subhasish Roy,
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Debika Gogoi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Narendra Nath Ghosh, FRSC,
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Honey Srivastava

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rashmi Chauhan,
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Smita Gupta Pancham

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Neha Saran

Ph.D. Supervisor - P. Bhavana,
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Kerkar Subhada Santosh

Ph.D. Supervisor - K. P. Jayadevan,
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Panjikar Padmini Charudatta

Ph.D. Supervisor - Mainak Banerjee,
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Ambudkar Vaibhav Jindas

Ph.D. Supervisor - Rashmi Chauhan,
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Chari Vishnu Rama

Ph.D. Supervisor - Raghu Nath Behera,
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Viraj G. Naik

Ph.D. Supervisor - Amrita Chatterjee,
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Kokate Santosh Pendurang Surek

Ph.D. Supervisor - Halan Prakash,
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Facilities

Laboratory

Gas Chromatograph

UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

Ion Chromatograph 

Lyophilizer 

Electrochemical Workstation (Model SP150e)

Multi-Mode Microplate Detection Platform

Instruments

Powder X-ray diffractrometer (Rigaku , Japan)

Multilabel Counter Victor 2 (Perkin-Elmer USA)

Six digit Electronic balance (Mettler Toledo, Switzerland)

Seven Multi pH and conductivity meter (Mettler Toledo Switzerland)

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Prof. Anjan Chattopadhyay was invited as distinguished speaker at the 5th Advanced Chemistry World Congress 2024, held at Amsterdam, Netherlands. Congratulations !

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Prof. Anjan Chattopadhyay’s work got featured as front cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry A (ACS). Congratulations !

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ICFNA-2024 to be organized at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus from 16th-18th Nov 2024

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International conference on ‘Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) fields’ organized at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

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February 26, 2017

Students’ Meet-2017

Mix It Up : A Chemistry Fair

January 5, 2023 To January 7, 2023

15th National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry

December 16, 2022 To December 18, 2022

International conference on aggregation-induced emission from fundamental to applications (IC-AIE-FA 2022) (Hybrid mode)

December 15, 2022

Future Perspective on the Chemical Elements and Electrochemistry

November 15, 2016 To November 21, 2016

DAE School in Analytical Chemistry

January 28, 2017 To January 29, 2017

New Frontiers in Chemistry-from Fundamentals to Applications-II (NFCFA2017)

May 23, 2018 To May 26, 2018

The Eighth DAE – BRNS Biennial Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation Science and Technology (SESTEC – 2018)

November 14, 2018 To November 18, 2018

School on Advanced Oxidation Processes – AOP

March 3, 2020 To March 6, 2020

School and International Conference on Photoirradiation and Adsorption based Novel Innovations for Water Treatment (PANI WATER) under the framework of PANIWater Indo-EU, EU-DST sponsored project

March 3, 2020 To March 6, 2020

School and International Conference on Photoirradiation and Adsorption based Novel Innovations for Water Treatment (PANI WATER) under the framework of PANIWater Indo-EU, EU-DST sponsored project

November 10, 2022 To November 11, 2022

International conference on Drug Discovery -2022 (ICDD-2022): Success Stories – From Computation to Clinical Trials

January 5, 2023 To January 7, 2022

National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry, NSRP-2023

November 16, 2022

Enzymes from extremophiles: Expanding the limits of biocatalysis and a link between earth and astrobiology

March 4, 2023

Importance of metal-speciation study in marine systems

January 25, 2021

Crystal engineering of adaptive smart materials: from mechanical bending to self-healing 

September 4, 2021

Ionic Liquids as Environmentally Benign Solvents for Enhancing the Sorption and Extraction Processes

August 28, 2021

Amyloid as Functional Bio-materials

February 6, 2021

A Wanderer’s Voyage in Molecular Science: View at Small Length and Time Scales

March 21, 2021

Self-Assembled Molecular Vessels

March 4, 2021

Applications of C-X (X = Br/O/H) Bond Activation Strategies in Drug Discovery

February 27, 2021

Catchment Detachment: Our Global Water Quality Challenges

November 28, 2020

Organocatalysis Using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs)

October 31, 2020

Generating Hydrogen Sulfide from Organic Compounds

September 26, 2020

Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Spectroscopic Signatures and Applications

September 19, 2020

Porous Framework Materials: What are they good for

November 7, 2020

Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in Molecular Functionalization

March 6, 2020

Normal Polarity Enantioselective Catalysis Using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

March 3, 2020 To March 6, 2020

School and International Conference on photo irradiation and Adsorption based Novel Innovations for Water Treatment (PANI WATER) under the framework of PANI Water Indo-EU,EU- DST sponsored project

February 25, 2020

Elucidation of excited state dynamics in complex systems

January 30, 2020

Thermometric and Micro Biosensors

January 27, 2020

The Systems Chemistry of Peptide Networks

January 27, 2020

Peptide Designs for Bioelectronics

December 20, 2020 To December 22, 2020

3rd National Conference on New Frontiers in Chemistry From Fundamental to Applications (NFCFA 2019)

September 24, 2019

Multifunctional Catalysis For Sustainable Processes

December 17, 2018

Changing Perceptions: Advancing Cross Coupling through Radical Organometallics

May 23, 2018

8th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation Science and Technology(SCTEC-2018)

March 9, 2018

From Agricultural Waste Products to Value Added Monomers: Exploitation of Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL) and Lignin-Derived Aromatic Chemicals

February 19, 2018

The First Isolated Abnormal NHC

October 14, 2017

Neutron Activation Analysis: A potential nuclear analytical technique for trace element determination and speciation studies in environmental and food samples

July 24, 2017

Thermodynamics in understanding protein folding and rational drug design

February 25, 2018

Recent Trends in Chemistry: Students’ Meet-2018

February 22, 2017

Solvent, Time, Step and Cost Economy for Chemical Reactions – An Emerging Concept

February 9, 2017

On potentials and reaction dynamics

January 16, 2017

Chemical Micro and Nanomachines

December 17, 2016 To December 20, 2016

4th International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP-2016)

December 12, 2016

Conical intersections of potential energy surfaces: a paradigm for nonadiabatic excited – state dynamics\

November 15, 2016 To November 22, 2016

BRNS-AEACI Twelfth School on Analytical-Chemistry (SAC-12)

November 13, 2016

Symposium on ‘Recent Advancements in Chemical Sciences and Research Scholar Meet-2016’

January 11, 2016 To January 12, 2016

2nd Indo- UK International Workshop on Advanced Materials and their Applications in Nanotechnology (AMAN)

March 21, 2016

Recent Advances in Antimalarial Peroxide – based natural product, Artemisinin: A Nobel Medicine for Malaria

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Project Associate-I

Project Associate-I

Research Staff (JRF/PA-I)

Research Staff (JRF/PA-I)

JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW / PROJECT ASSOCIATE-1

Call Summary: Applications are invited from motivated candidates for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) / Project Associate-1 to work on a project sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under the supervision of Dr. Saurav Bhattacharya in the Department of Chemistry at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus.

Project Associate-I in SERB-POWER funded project

Applications are invited for the position of Project Associate-I in the Department of Chemistry at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa for a Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB-POWER grant) sponsored research project on Porphyrinoids for energy-relevant applications. This is an addendum to the previously posted advertisement dated 07.07.23 with an enhanced fellowship amount for the said post.

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