- Prof. Sandeep Verma has been selected for Professor D. P. Chakraborty 60th Birth Anniversary Commemoration Award from the Indian Chemical Society. This award will be given in the 60th Annual Convention of Chemist 2023 at IIT Delhi (December 20-21, 2023). It is a biennial award consisting of a citation and a plaque
- Dr. Anantharaj Sengeni has recently been selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences for the period 2023 to 2026
- Prof. Vinod K Singh has been appointed Chairperson, Recruitment & Assessment Board, CSIR.
- Prof. Sandeep Verma has been conferred with INAE-SERB Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship to work on “Chemically Engineered Thermostable Human Insulin for Diabetic Patients” for three years “in recognition of his outstanding contributions and future promise in the field of Precision Therapeutics, Stem Cell Engineering, Bioengineering as well as his contribution in the growth of the engineering profession in the country”
- Prof. R N Mukherjee, a former faculty, has written a book entitled 'Inorganic Chemistry - Principles and Properties’, published by World Scientific
- Ms Ramsha Javed, a Ph D student in the group of Prof. Nisanth Nair, has been awarded a poster prize in the conference 'Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry (TACC23)’, which was held in Sapporo, Japan from 4-9 September, 2023.
- Dr. J N. Moorthy has been selected to receive the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association (APA) Award 2023. The award lecture and ceremony for the Award is scheduled during the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Conference (APC2023) in Melbourne later this year
- Prof. Nisanth Nair has received the Dr. APJ Adul Kalam HPC Award 2023 under the category “Researcher – R&D in HPC Applications” for developing new computational methods and software for quantum chemistry calculations and their applications in predicting the structure and dynamics of condensed matter systems. Hewlett Packard Enterprise gives Dr. APJ Adul Kalam HPC Awards annually to recognize significant contributions to theadvancement of HPC in science, engineering, and beyond.
- Dr. Nisanth N Nair has been selected to receive the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal for the year 2024 in recognition of his significant contributions to research in Chemistry.
- Ms. Moumita Patra and Mr. Prabhakar K. Pandey, working in the group of Prof. Jitendra Bera, have received the "Best Poster Award" in 31st CRSI NSC Symposium held at NIT Rourkela on 6-8 July 2023.
- Mr. Deepak Kumar, working in the group of Prof. D. Goswami, has received the “Best Poster Award" in Photonics-2023 held in IISc Bangalore on 5-8 July 2023.
- Ms. Mamta Gill, working in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has received the "Best Oral Presentation" at the International Conference on Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (ICOMC-2023), held at NIT Warangal on 28-30 June 2023.
- Mr. Abhijit Manna, working in the group of Prof. Vinod K. Singh, has received the "Best Poster Presentation Award" at the International Conference on Organic and Medicinal Chemistry (ICOMC-2023), held at NIT Warangal on 28-30 June 2023.
- Dr Apurva Panjla, a former PhD student from the research group of Prof. Sandeep Verma, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Blavatnik Centre for Drug Discovery, Tel Aviv University, Israel, has bagged the 2023 IUPAC- Solvay International Award for Young Chemists for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
- Manish Kumar, as studnet of Manas Ghorai, has been awarded the ACS best poster award in the National Symposium "Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences (RACS-2023)", held in Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, MP during March 16-17, 2023
- Mr Arghya Sen, a PhD student in the research group of Prof. Pratik Sen, has received the Best Poster Award in Perovskite Society India Meet 2023" (PSIM-2023), jointly organized by the Department of Physics and Centre for Flexible and Smart Energy Device in IIT Roorkee, 1st March -3rd March, 2023
- Shantanu Sen, a Ph D student in the group of Prof. Sandeep Verma, has been selected as one of the winners under the best stories (PhD category) for AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research) programme, of Vigyan Prasar, DST
- Professor Sandeep Verma has been asked to serve as Professor In-charge of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, IIT Kanpur. He will lead the School's research and academic activities, including international partnerships
- Dr. Ankur Malik, an Institute Post-doctoral Fellow working in the group of Dr. Prakash C Mondal, received the Best Poster Award, for the poster entitled "Nanoscale ‘all-organic’ molecular electrochemical supercapacitors: A step closer to molecular power banks”, presented at the 2nd International Conference on Electrochemistry for Industry, Health and Environment held during February 7-11, 2023 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
- Our students, Kajal Chaudhary (supervisor: Ritika Gautam), Priyanka Chakraborty (Supervisor: Basker Sundararaju), Dolly Chandel (Supervisor: Sankar P Rath), Pradeep Sachan (Supervisor: Prakash C Mandal) received Best Poster Awards in the 30th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry that was held recently at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi from 2nd-5th February, 2023
- Tanmoy Khan’s (Supervisor: Pratik Sen) work has been selected among the best 51 of all PMRFs across the nation and will be presented in the PMRF Symposium 2023 attended by the Minister of Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
- Ms. Pooja Aggarwal, a Ph D student in the group of Vishal Govind Rao, has been recognised with best poster award in the "Conference on Advances in Renewable Energy (CARE-2023)", an international conference jointly organised by HRI, Prayagraj, India and TIFR-Hyderabad, India on February 02-04, 2023
- Ms Manorama Dey, a PhD student in the group of Dr. Nagma Parveen, was awarded the First Prize for her poster entitled "Probing Virus Binding to Giant Plasma Membrane Vesicles with Fluorescence Microscopy Technique" at the International Conference on Advanced Biomedical Imaging, organized by IIT Madras, Chennai on January 9-11, 2023
- Basker Sundararaju is one of the organizers of the Indo-French symposium on "Catalysis for Sustainability" at IISER Thiruvananthapuram from December 10- 13, 2023
- List of Selected Candidates for Ph.D. Admission in 2023-24-II Sem
- IIT Kanpur hosted SERB-sponsored one-day Workshop "Chemistry in Health, Energy, Environment and Materials” on November 18, 2023
- Recent Advances in Inorganic Molecules to Materials (RAIMM-2023), a one-day symposium was be held on November 4, 2023
- The Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in collaboration with the Society of Physical Chemistry (SoPhyC) organized the first National Symposium on Physical Chemistry during 29-31 October 2023, at IIT Kanpur
- Structure and Dynamics of Chemical and Biological Systems was organized from October 26-28, 2023
- IIT Kanpur hosted a Women in Science Conference themed Modern Trends in Chemical and Biological Sciences on October 6-7, 2023
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