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Dr. Debayan Sarkar joined the Indian Institute of Technology Indore on 19th May, 2022 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry.

Present status:

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, from 19th May 2022 – Continuing.

Past Employment & Post-Doc Fellowship Positions:

  • IGP Visiting Associate Professor – Department of Chemie and Pharmazie , University of Regensburg, Prof. Oliver Reiser Group, May – August 2025
  • IGP Visiting Associate Professor – Department of Chemie and Pharmazie , University of Regensburg, Prof. Burkhard Koenig Group, June – August 2024
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India, Pin- 769 008, from 02nd Feb 2018 – 17th May 2022.
  • ICMR International Fellow, Prof. Burkhard Koenig Group, University of Regensburg, Germany, Jan 2020- Dec 2020
  • Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India, Pin- 769 008, from 17th October 2011 to 01st Feb 2018.
  • DAAD Associate Professor (Academics)–  Dec 2018-Jan 2019 With Prof. Christoph Schneider, University of Leipzig, Germany
  • Visiting Senior Assistant Professor: Dec. 2015 – March 2016, With Prof. Masahiko Yamaguchi, Graduate School Of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan
  • ( INDO-US Postdoctoral Research Fellow) with Prof. B M Trost, Department of chemistry, Stanford University, California, USA-94305 (  2012-  2013)

Academic Background :

  • Ph. D (Organic Chemistry): 01-12-2011, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India. Thesis Title:   “Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products”. Institute: Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association For The Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata – 700032, India. Supervisor: Professor R. V. Venkateswaran
  • M. Sc. (Chemical sciences) (specialization in Organic Chemistry): 2003 – 2005, Department of Chemistry, University Of North Bengal, West Bengal, India (First Class)
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry (Honours), Physics & Mathematics): 2000 – 2003, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India.