| Education Upper Primary School (1984):- Gambhariguda Primary School, Dharamgarh, Kalahandi, Orissa, India ME, Junior High School (1986):- K. D. M. E. School Dharamgarh, Dharamgarh, Kalahandi, Orissa, India High School (1989):- Government High School Dharamgarh, Dharamgarh, Kalahandi, Orissa, India Higher Secondary, Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology (1991):- Government College Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi, Orissa, India B.Sc, Subjects: Physics, Chemistry (Hons), Mathematics (1994):- Government College Bhawanipatna, Bhawanipatna, Kalahandi, Orissa, India M.Sc., Subjects: Chemistry with organic specialisation (1996):- Department of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Orissa, India M.Phil., Subjects: Chemistry with organic specialisation (1997):- Department of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Orissa, India Ph.D., Subjects: Chemistry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy (2001):- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Honors and Awards Junior merit scholarship in matriculation (10th standard) Ist position in M.Sc, Sambalpur University - 1996 Ist position in M.Phil, Sambalpur University - 1997 Qualified Graduate Apttitude Test of Engineering (GATE) - 1997 Best poster presentation award in ISRAP - 1999 Qualified NET examination conducted by CSIR-UGC, India - 1999 Senior Research Fellow by IIT Madrasm India - 2000 Senior Research Fellow by CSIR, India - 2001 Alexander von Humboldt Reserach Fellow - 2002 Fellow, Internation Congress of Chemistry and Environment (FICCE)-2002 Europe Research Fellowship - 2003 Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship - 2004 Editorial Board Member "Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment" 2005 |
| Professional Affiliation Member of Biophysical Society of USA, 2006 Editorial Board member, Research Journal of Chemistry & Environment, 2005 (continueing) Member of Biophysical Society of Japan, 2005 Member of German Chemical Society, 2002-03 Member of Indian Science Congress, 2001 Member of Research Journal of Chemistry & Environment 2001 |
| Curriculum Vitae 1st July 1974:- Born in Gambhariguda,Dharamgarh, Orissa, India July 1991 - Jun. 1994:- B.Sc, Chemistry Honours with Physics and Mathematics, in Government College Bhawanipatna, Orissa, India Aug. 1994 - Oct. 1996:- M.Sc, Chemistry (Organic synthesis and Biochemistry specialisation), in Department of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Orissa, India Nov. 1996 - Dec. 1997:- M.Phil, Chemistry (Physico-organic chemistry), in the Department of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Orissa, India, Thesis Supervisor: Prof. G. B. Behera Jan. 1998 - Mar. 2001:- Ph.D, Chemistry (Fluorescence Spectroscopy), in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, Thesis Supervisor: Prof. A. K. Mishra Mar. 2001 - Nov. 2001:- Senior Research Fellow with Prof. A. K. Mishra, in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Dec. 2001 - Oct. 2002:- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with Prof. Werner M. Nau, in the Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland Nov. 2002 - Aug. 2004:- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow with Prof Joerg Enderlein, in the Institute for Biological Information Processing-1, Forschungszentrum J�lich, Germany Jun. 2003 - July 2003:- Europe Research Fellowship with Prof. Johan Hofkens, in the Department of Chemistry, Katholiekie University Leuven, Belgium Sep. 2004 - Feb 2005:- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, with Prof. Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr., in the Okazaki Institute for Integrative Biosciences, NINS, Okazaki, Japan Mar 2005 - Aug 2006:- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, with Prof. Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr. in the Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Aug 2006 - Sept 2007:- Visiting Lecturer, with Prof. Kazuhiko Kinosita Jr., in the Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Sept 2007:- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| Professional Activities Editorial for Research Journal of Chemistry & Environment, March 2006 (invited) Speaker in National Symposium on Photochemical Sciences for the millennium at Sambalpur University, Indian, Feb 17 - 19, 2005 (invited) Report on Polyclic Aromatic Compounds Analysis for Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2004 (invited) Referee for articles in international journal such as Analytica Chimica Acta, Luminescence, Research Journal of Chemistry & Environment etc. |