2023
Nov. 2023:
A Conversation with Prof. Srabanti Chaudhury is made available here, who is currently with IISER-Pune, also an alumnus of IPC department.

Oct. 2023:
Mr. S. Selvakumar from Prof. Jagirdar's group has won an
essay competition - Young Voices in the Chemical Sciences for Sustainability for the South Asia Region.
The global essay competition was organized by the International Organization of Chemical
Sciences in Development (IOCD) and the published issue on RSC Sustainability can be found
here.

Jul. 2023:
Mr. Deepak Kumar of Prof. Arunan's
group has got the Best Poster Presentation Award
in the 34th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW34) that took place in Daegu, Korea during 16-21 July 2023.
Congratulations, Deepak.

Jul. 2023:
Ms. E. Jusaina from Prof. P. Thilagar's Group
received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 17th International Meeting on
Boron Chemistry (IMEBORON 17) held at Rennes, France, on July 9-13, 2023. Congratulations, Jusaina.

Jul. 2023:
Mr. Debasish Giri from Prof. G. Mugesh's Group
has received the Best Poster Award in the 31st CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held at NIT Rourkela during July 6-8, 2023. Congratulations, Debasish.

Jul. 2023:
Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy
has joined IPC as a Visiting Professor from 1st July 2023 for a year.
Welcome, Prof. Srihari.

Welcome, Prof. Srihari.
May 2023:
Prof. Arunan has become a member of the task group formed by
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to redefine proton affinity.
Chair of the committee is an alumnus of IPC, Dr. Emmanuel Etim. More information is available
here.
Congratulations, Prof. Arunan.

May 2023:
Solving a 30 year-old chemistry problem led to an international collaboration!
The University of Newcastle's international collaboration with the Indian Institute
of Science is featured here.

Apr. 2023:
Dr. R. Shwetharani and Ms. Dimple Rani from Prof. S. Sampath's Group
have been individually awarded the certificate of merit for the best paper
at the International Conference on Women in Electrochemistry
(ICWEC-2023), organised by The Electrochemical Society of India,
held at IISc, Bengaluru during April 7-8, 2023. Congratulations, Shwetharani and Dimple.

Mar. 2023:
IPC Day was celebrated on 25th March 2023. This is the first IPC Day held
at the recently built Chemical Sciences Building, after the department started
its function from the new premises. Group photo is available here.

Feb. 2023:
Mr. Subha Biswas from Dr. Anoop's Group was awarded the best oral presentation prize in the Chemsci - 2023: Leaders in the Field Symposium, organised by the journal Chemical Science and JNCASR in Bangalore during 23rd-25th January 2023. Congratulations, Subha.

Feb. 2023:
Ms. Ekta Chauhan from Prof. G. Mugesh's Group,
Mr. Tabish Iqbal from Dr. Debasis Das' Group and Mr. V.A. Rinshad from
Prof. P.S. Mukherjee's Group have received ACS best poster awards individually at the 30th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-30) held at JNU, India during February 2-5, 2023. Well done Ekta, Tabish and Rinshad.

2022
Dec. 2022:
Prof. S. Umapathy's research work
on quicker identification of bacterial pathogens using a combination of
Raman spectroscopy and artificial intelligence method has appeared as
a news item in the Deccan Herald (28/12/2022) under Top Karnataka Stories.

Dec. 2022:
Mr. Bapuji Mohapatra from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group received a best poster award at the Asian Conference on Electrochemical Power Sources 11 (ACEPS’11) held at National University of Singapore, Singapore from 11th-14th Dec. 2022. Congratulations, Bapuji.

Dec. 2022:
Ms. E. Jusaina from Prof. P. Thilagar's Group received
one of the best ACS oral presentation awards in the International Conference
on Aggregation-Induced Emissions: Fundamentals to Applications (IC-AIE-FA 2022)
held at BITS Pilani Campus, Goa on December 16-18, 2022. Congratulations, Jusaina.

Dec. 2022:
Ms. Suma Dilipkumar from Prof. M. Nethaji's Group
has won the best poster award in the 7th Conference of Bangladesh Crystallographic
Association held on December 8-9, 2022 at Bangladesh University
of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka. Congratulations, Suma.

Dec. 2022:
Prof. E. Arunan has established a strong
collaboration with the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, IISc and the
University of Rennes, France. This has been supported by the Indo-French
Centre for Promotion of Advanced Scientific Research (CEFIPRA in French).
CEFIPRA has released a Youtube video
about the project recently.
Congratulations, Prof. Arunan.

Nov. 2022:
Prof. P.S. Mukherjee
has been elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Congratulations, Prof. Mukherjee.

Nov. 2022:
Mr. Shubham Sahu from Prof. G. Mugesh's Group has won a best poster award at the International Conference on Drug Discovery (ICDD-2022) that took place in BITS Pilani KK Birla Campus, Goa on Nov. 10 & 11, 2022. Congratulations, Shubham.

Nov. 2022:
Family of Prof. Gopal Jere, former Professor at IIT-Delhi,
donated Rs. 5 Lakhs to support summer research fellowship at IPC.
Prof. Jere did his Ph.D. during 1956-62 in IPC.

Nov. 2022:
Mr. Sekhar Biswal from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group has won a best poster award at CACEE-2022 that took place in TIFR, Mumbai between Oct. 31 and Nov. 4, 2022.

Nov. 2022:
Mr. Sekhar Biswal from Dr. Chinmoy Ranjan’s Group has won the RSC Best Poster Prize at the 7th Ertl Symposium held in Gwangju, South Korea during October 25-28, 2022. Congratulations, Sekhar.

Oct. 2022:
Mr. Mrinal Arandhara from Prof.
Sai Ramesh's group has won the JPCA Best Poster Prize
at the Current Trend in Theoretical Chemistry
(CTTC)
Conference held at BARC, Mumbai recently (September 22-24, 2022).
Congratulations, Mrinal.
Aug. 2022:
The Department has started its function from the new premises
at the Chemical Sciences Building, which is nestled among
Physical and Biological Science Divisions.

July 2022:
Prof. Jemmis' Advance Article, published in Chemical Science,
has been selected as Today's Pick in Chemical Science and also featured as
Pick of the Week. Congratulations, Prof. Jemmis.

July 2022:
Ms. U. Aarti Upadhyay from ARC's Group has won best
poster award in the 16th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference
(EuroBIC) held in Grenoble,
France during July 17-21, 2022.

May 2022:
Dr. Susanta Hazra joined IPC as an Assistant Professor on 27th May 2022.
Welcome, Susanta.

Welcome, Susanta.
Mar 2022:
Ms. Keerthika K. from Prof. K. Geetharani's lab has received
the ACS Best Poster Prize at the 28th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry
held on March 25-27, 2022 at IIT Guwahati. Congratulations, Keerthika!

Feb 2022:
Prof. P.S. Mukherjee has been listed as one of the
top 75 scientists
under 50, shaping Science in India.
[ Book launch function video link]

[ Book launch function video link]

2021
Dec 2021:
Ms. Ankita Das from Prof. U. Harbola's
group and Mr. Mrinal Arandhara from Prof.
Sai Ramesh's group have been awarded a Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics (PCCP) Poster Prize each at Theoretical Chemistry
Symposium (TCS 2021) held at IISER Kolkata, during Dec. 11-14, 2021. Congratulations, Ankita and Mrinal.




Jan 2021:
Prof. E. D. Jemmis is the recipient of the INSA Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal for Chemical Sciences 2019.

2020




Oct 2020:
IPC Faculty members Prof. Kaushal Kishore, Prof. K. C. Patil, Prof. N. Munichandraiah, Prof. G. Mugesh, Prof. E. D. Jemmis, Prof. E. Arunan, Prof. P. S. Mukherjee and Prof. S. Sampath have been listed in the top 2% of World Scientists in their field as evaluated by their c-score. The method to obtain this metric has been outlined in a recent publication. Congratulations to all!










2019

Congratulations, Sampath!


Sep 2019:
Dr. Namrata Singh from the Mugesh's group has been awarded the IIT Bombay Metrohm Young Chemist Award 2019 for Innovation in Research. The award was given for her research on uncovering the role of an antioxidant nanozyme that provides cytoprotection in Parkinson’s Disease model. Congratulations, Namrata!














Jan 2019:
A new edition of Elixir, IPC's own magazine, is out! Click on the cover to get the pdf. Click here to access the previous editions.
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