ABOUT ME
Soumitra Maity
CONTACT ME
Appointments
2022 - : Associate Professor, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad​.
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2015 -2021 : Assistant Professor, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad​.
2014-2015: AcSIR Assistant Professor, INSPIRE Faculty Fellow-CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Gujarat​.
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CV
Education
B.Sc (2002): Chemistry (Hons.)- Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Calcutta
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M.Sc (2004): Organic Chemistry (spcl.) - Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta
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Ph.D. (2010): Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata.
Advisor: Professor Subrata Ghosh
Topic: Total Synthesis of Natural Products
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Postdoc. (2010-2012): University of Arkansas, USA
Advisor: Professor Nan Zheng
Topic: Synthetic Methods Devepolment
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Postdoc. (2012-2013): University of California – Berkeley, USA
Advisor: Professor Thomas J. Maimone
Topic: Total Synthesis of Natural Products
Awards and Fellowship
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INSPIRE Faculty Award: July 2013 (DST), India.
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Doctoral Fellowship: Feb 2005 – Aug 2010 (CSIR), India.
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National Eligibility Test (NET- 2004): Qualified as JRF, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
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Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE-2004): Qualified with percentile: 99.06; All India rank: 30.
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National Scholarship from Government of India, (1999-2002).
Dr. Maity was born and raised in contai, purba medinipur (W. B). He received his BSc in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur in 2002 and MSc in 2004 from Calcutta University. His PhD research was conducted at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Kolkata, India) and was focused on the synthesis of natural products with Prof. Subrata Ghosh. After successfully defending his PhD thesis, In the fall of 2010, he moved to USA to work with Prof. Nan Zheng at the University of Arkansas to develop new methods for the formation of C–C and C–N bonds by visible-light photoredox catalysis. After spending more than two years at Arkansas, Maity took up a 2nd postdoctoral position at UC-Berkeley to work with Prof. Thomas P. Maimone where he worked in total synthesis of natural products. In 2014 he back to India to join as INSPIRE Faculty at Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Gujarat. Since January 2015, he has been an Assistant Professor in the department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad.