Welcome to the Department of Chemistry

banner
Innovate. Achieve. Lead

Department News

  • Chemistry Department Seminars are held on every Friday at 5:00-6:00 p.m. in Room # 2222.
  • One JRF/SRF position available in a CSIR-funded project of Dr. Anil Kumar. Applications must reach Dr. Anil Kumar by March 31, 2013. Click here for more details.
  • Ganesh Shelke has been awarded the Honorary Diploma, in the Young Scientists nomination, for his achievements in scientific research, by International Scientific Partnership Foundation. Ganesh, well done indeed!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Inamur R. Laskar for receiving the best paper award for his oral presentation in the National Conference on Advances in Chemical Sciences organised by the Department of Chemistry, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak during March 1-2, 2013.
  • Dr. Anil Kumar received the Young Scientist Award 2013 of the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB), Lukhnow, in the area of Chemical Sciences, during the 19th ISCB Conference organised by Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur during March 2-5, 2013. Congratulations, Dr. Anil Kumar!
  • Chemistry Department welcomes the newly admitted Ph.D. students.
  • Applications invited for admission to Ph.D. programme of the Department during second semester of the academic year 2012-13. Click here for more details.
  • Alumini News: Dr. Maruthi Kumar has accepted the postdoctoral associateship at the Sogang University, South Koria. Congratulations, Maruthi!
  • Sonu was awarded the best poster award in the conference, "Chemical Constellation Cheminar 2012" held at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar during September 10-12, 2012. Congratulations, Sonu!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Indresh Kumar and co-workers for receiving the Best Poster Award in the "International Symposium on Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Natural Products" organized by IICT, Hyderabad during August 02-04, 2012.
  • Kasi Pericherla received the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship for the year 2012-13. Well done, Kasi!
  • Dr. Harekrushna Sahoo from NIT Rourkela visited the Department on July 17, 2012 and delivered a seminar on "Glycosaminoglycan and Biological molecules : A conformational and dynamic correlation".
  • Congratulations to N. Maruthi Kumar for his successful Ph.D. defence.
  • Ph.D. entrance test and interview for the first semester of academic year 2012-13 will be conducted on 16th July 2012. Click here for more information.
  • Warm welcome to the newly joined faculty member, Dr. Shamik Chakraborty.
  • Congratulations to Sudershan Rao for his successful Ph.D. defence and best wishes for his new position as a Research Scientist at New Biopharma, Hyderabad.
  • Dr. P. M. S. Chauhan (Scientist-F, CDRI, Lukhnow) and Prof. Ashok K. Prasad (University of Delhi, Delhi) visited the Department on May 28, 2012 and delivered seminars.
  • Prof. Amitabh Jha (George H. Wallace Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Canada) visited the Department on May 19, 2012 and delivered a seminar.
  • Prof. Chien-Hsiang Chang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) visited the Department on May 08, 2012, and delivered a seminar.
  • Archana Choudhary won the best oral-presentation award in the Materials Research Symposium held at IIT Bombay during May 03-5, 2012. Well done, Archana!
  • Dr. Mukund Jha (Nipissing University, Canada) visited the Department on May 05, 2012 and delivered a seminar on "Synthesis of Novel Heterocycles using Indolin-2-ones and Indoline-2-thiones as Building Blocks".
  • The advertisement for admission to Ph.D. programme at BITS Pilani for the first semester 2012-13 is released. Click here for more details.
  • Dr. Anil Kumar has been awarded Harrison McCain Foundation Award of visiting Professorship for the year 2012 by Acadia University, Canada. Congratulations, Dr. Anil!
  • Archana Chowdhury, Suman Kumari, Kasi Pericherla, Mukund Tantak, Amrit Sharma and Rituparna Bhattacharjee successfully presented their Ph.D. research proposals to the Departmental Research Committee on April 12 and 14, 2012. Congratulations to all of them!
  • The Department organized a one-day symposium : "Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences" on Sunday, March 25, 2012. Thanks to the participants, students, faculty and staff for making the event successful. Click here to view the pictures.
  • Warm welcome to the new faculty members: Dr. Indresh Kumar, Dr. Surojit Pande and Dr. Rajeev Sakhuja.
  • Congratulations to Ms. M. Sowmiya for her successful Ph.D. defence. Well done Sowmiya! We are proud of you.
  • Prof. Rakesh Kumar Mahajan (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar) and Prof. Ashok Kumar Mishra (IIT Madras, Chennai) visited the Department on February 27, 2012 and delivered seminars.
  • Dr. Gopal Chakraborty (University of Calcutta, Kolkata) delivered a talk on "Targeted Anti-cancer Therapy: Tubulin is a Major Target for Anti-cancer Drug Development" on November 08, 2011.
  • Dr. Kallolmay Biswas (University of Edinburg, Edinburg, UK) delivered a talk on "Selective catalysis for Organic synthesis and Development of Drugs for Medicinal Chemistry" on August 09, 2011.
  • Gautam is now Dr. Gautam Patel and has accepted the post-doctoral research associateship at the North-eastern University, Boston, MA. Congratulations and Good luck, Dr. Gautam!
  • Congratulations to the Chemistry faculty for raising the total research funding of INR 3.4 cr.
  • Congratulations to Bhupendra Mishra for winning the first prize for his poster presentation in the 15th International Conference on "Bridging gaps in Discovery and Development: Chemical and Biological Sciences for Affordable Health, Wellness and Sustainability" (February 2011) held at Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
  • Mr. Manoj Kumar Muthyala received the best poster award in the "National Symposium on Organic Synthesis" at IIS University, Jaipur (February 2011). Well done, Manoj!
  • Congratulations to Buchi Reddy for his successful Ph.D. defence and best wishes for his new position as Postdoctoral Research Associate as US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio (USA).
  • Congratulations to Soumen Saha for his successful Ph.D. defence and best wishes for his new position as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Jackson State University, Jackson, Missisippi (USA).

Overview

Established in 1944, we are one of the oldest departments on the campus. The department has grown with strong research interests in the Physical Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, etc.

Equipped with a state of the art instrumentation facility and research laboratories, we are counted amongst the best departments for education in Chemistry across the country.

Contact us

Dr. Subit Kumar Saha
Head,
Department of Chemistry

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Pilani 333031, Rajasthan (India)

Phone: +91-1596-245073 Ext 279/276
Fax: +91-1596-244183
Email:  sksaha@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

Quick Links

An institution deemed to be a University estd. vide Sec.3 of the UGC Act,1956 under notification # F.12-23/63.U-2 of Jun 18,1964

© 2011-13 Centre for Software Development,SDET Unit, BITS-Pilani, India.

Designed and developed by fractal | ink design studios