Principal Investigator
Shibdas Banerjee (a.k.a Monon)
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati
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Associate Professor, IISER Tirupati (July 2022 -)
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Assistant Professor, IISER Tirupati (August 2017 - July 2022)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, USA (July 2014 - July 2017),
Mentor: Prof. Richard N. Zare
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Visiting Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai (February-May 2014)
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Ph.D., Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai (August 2008 - January 2014),
Supervisor: Prof. Shyamalava Mazumdar
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M.Sc., Chemistry, IIT Roorkee, India (2008)
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B.Sc., Chemistry Hons. University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India (2006)
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Field of Specialization
Biochemistry, Imaging Mass Spectrometry, Clinical Metabolomics and Diagnostics, Mechanistic Organic Chemistry, Microdroplet Chemistry, and Analytical Methodology Development.
Honors and Awards
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Shimadzu Young Scientist Award-GOLD from Asia Pacific (2014)
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Ramanujan Fellowship (2018)
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Early Career Research Award from SERB, DST, Govt. of India (2019)
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, USA (2019)
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2022 ACES-CRSI Early Career Award (2022)
Ph.D. students
Supratim Mondal
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M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Calcutta (U.C.S.T.A) in 2017
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CSIR JRF Rank- 39 (June 2017)
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Anubhav Kumar
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BS-MS in Chemical Sciences from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata in 2018
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DST Inspire Fellow
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Abhijit Nandy
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M.Sc. in Chemical Sciences from Presidency University, Kolkata in 2020
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Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF) (from 2022)
CSIR-JRF Rank- 43 (2020)
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Pragya Pahchan
iPhD Fellow
B.Sc. in Zoology, Banaras Hindu University (2016-2019)
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CSIR-JRF Rank- 85 (2019, Life Sciences)
DBT-JRF (BET 2022)
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Geetha Dande
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara University College of Sciences Tirupati (2018-2020)
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CSIR-JRF Rank- 107 (June 2021)
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Barsha Pathak
iPhD Fellow
B.Sc. from Bankura Christian College, West Bengal (2021)
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Dikshita Goswami
M.Sc. in Chemistry, Gauhati University (2020-2022)
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UGC-JRF Rank- 73 (June 2023)
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Sourik Chakrabarti
M.Sc. in Chemistry, IIEST Shibpur (2020-2022)
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Email: sourikchakrabarti@students.iisertirupati.ac.in
MS Thesis student
Hariharan T
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MS Thesis student (2023-2024)
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BS-MS (2019-2024) at IISER Tirupati
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SBLab Alumni
Debajit Laha
Project Fellow (2021-2022)
M.Sc. in Chemistry
Currently at Lupin Limited
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Sutirtha Chattopadhyay
MS Thesis student (2021-2022)
BS-MS (2017-2022), IISER Tirupati
Currently at Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Germany
Dr. Yeswanth Sthanikam
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
PhD in Biotechnology, SVIMS Tirupati
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Mithlesh Prasad Singh
Project Fellow (2021-2022)
M.Tech. in AI and ML
Currently at NTNU, Norway
Akhila Ajith
MS Thesis student (2020-2021)
BS-MS (2016-2021), IISER Tirupati
Currently at The University of Manchester, UK
Uddeshya Pandey
MS Thesis student (2022-2023)
BS-MS Biology major (2018-2023)
IISER Tirupati
Currently at Utrecht University,
Netherlands
Veena Shankar Avadhani
MS Thesis student (2020-2021)
BS-MS (2016-2021), IISER Tirupati
Currently at UC Berkley, USA
Purva Shripad Damale
MS Thesis student (2021-2022)
BS-MS (2017-2022), IISER Tirupati
Currently at The Ohio State University, USA
JOIN US
PhD and Postdoctoral positions will be available in our group soon. Interested and motivated candidates can check our Institute website regularly for that.
For collaborations, questions, and job opportunities in our group, please contact us at shibdas@iisertirupati.ac.in
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NOTE: We do not have positions open for the temporary/summer/thesis internships. Please do not apply for the same.