EDUCATION

2023 – 2025 M.Sc Chemistry at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research
2020 – 2023 B.Sc Chemistry at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata

RESEARCH INTEREST(S)

• Microdroplet Chemistry
• Material Science

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Masters Project-2 : Enhancing the Stability of 1T-MoS2 with organic ammonium cations and its Activity in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

• Stabilization and applications of 2-dimensional 1T metallic MoS2
• Characterized by Raman Spectroscopy, PXRD, FESEM, Elemental Mapping, TEM,1HNMR,19FNMR
• Study Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER)
• Software used: OriginPro, ICSD, CCDC, Mercury, Mestrenova, VESTA, ChemDraw

Masters Project-1 : Tin (II) based 3D Halide Perovskitoid: Synthesis, Structure and Optical properties

• Synthesis of Hybrid Tin Halide Perovskitoid
• Characterized by PXRD, Signal Crystal XRD, XPS, SEM, EDS and Elemental Analysis
• Studied Structural and Phase Transition properties and Optoelectronics
• Software used: OriginPro, ICSD, CCDC, VESTA, Mercury

PUBLICATIONS

Mukherjee, P.; Mukhopadhyay, T. K.; Sanyal, S.; Kundu, K.; Ghosh, R.; Chowdhury, S. S.; Ghosh, S. Photophysical and Structural Aspects of Poly-L-Tryptophan: π−π Stacking Interaction with an Excited State Intermolecular Proton Transfer Probe 3-Hydroxynaphthoic Acid Revealed by Experiments and Molecular Simulation. Biophysical Chemistry 2025, 320–321, 107416.

(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpc.2025.107416)

SCHOLARSHIPS

Awarded the prestigious INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Studies (SHE) by Department of Science and Technology (DST) for being in top 1% among 0.8 million candidates in WBCHSE 2020 examination

SKILLS
Laboratory Skills:
• Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC), Column Chromatography, Extraction/Workup
• Analytical techniques: PXRD, Single Crystal XRD, UV-Vis, FTIR, Fluorescence, NMR, 2D-COSY NMR, Raman Spectroscopy, SEM, TEM, Linear Sweep Voltammetry (LSV), Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Diffused Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS), BET Measurement, Mass Spectroscopy
• Titrations: Acid-base, Complexometric, Conductometric, Potentiometric, Iodometric, etc.
• Qualitative inorganic and organic analysis (e.g.- detection of ions and functional groups)
• Synthesis of various organic compounds, inorganic complexes and their purification

Technical Skills:
• Data analysis using FORTRAN, OriginPro, MS Office and gnuplot
• Generating graphics using ChemDraw
• Visualization using VESTA, Mercury, PyMol
• WEB using McQueen Lab, COD, ICSD, CCDC
• Operating System: Linux, Windows, Mac OS

SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Secured All India Rank 674 among 13000+ candidates in IIT JAM 2023 Chemistry examination (’23)

POSTER PRESENTATION
Kundu K.; Mallick. A.; Naskar. D.; Chowdhury. S.; “QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT” at Nation Symposium on Chemical Sciences 2022, Department of Chemistry, St.Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata (Sep’22)