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Dr Amlan Kumar Pal

Assistant Professor

Dr. Pal was born in West Bengal, India and received his postgraduate degree in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where he worked with Prof. Dillip Kumar Chand. In 2009, he began his doctoral studies under the direction of professor Prof. Garry S. Hanan at Université de Montréal, Canada. After his PhD, Dr. Pal started working with Dr. Eli Zysman-Colman in the year 2015 at the University of St Andrews, UK as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow.

He began his independent career as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK in the year 2017. 

Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India.

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EDUCATION

  • 2003 - 2006 : B.Sc. University of Burdan, India.

  • 2006 - 2008 : M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

  • 2009 - 2014 : Ph.D. University of Montreal, Canada.    ​

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2015 - 2017 : Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK.

  • 2017- 2019 : Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to begin independant academic career.

  • 2018 (April-May) : Visiting Faculty, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER-Kolkata, India.

  • 2019 onwards : Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, J&K, India.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Newton -Bhabha Researcher Link Fellowship sponsored by British Council,  Newton-Bhabha Fund and Royal Society of Chemistry. (Five times in the duration of 2016- 2019).

  • Recipient of DST (Gov. of India) INSPIRE Faculty award. (Two times).

  • PECRE (Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Exchanges) award.

  • Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to begin independant academic career.

  • Membership of Chemical Research Society of India since June, 2020.

  • Membership of Royal Society of Chemistry since July, 2021.

TALKS

21 international Oral Presentations, 8 international Workshops with presentations, 23 international poster presentations in Brazil, Canada, Spain, France, Japan, UK and India.
Oral Presentations:
1. “Applications of Light-Harvesting Transition Metal Polypyridyl Complexes from Catalysis to Interconversion of
Energy” at IISER Pune, India (24 Sep 2020) (Invited departmental lecture).
2. “Applications of Light Harvesting Transition Metal Polypyridyl Complexes from Catalysis to Interconversion of
Energy” at IIT Jammu, India (01-02 Aug 2019) (Invited departmental lecture).
3. “Interconversion of Energy Using Light Harvesting Transition Metal Polypyridyl Complexes” at IIT Roorkee, India (29th
May 2019) (Invited departmental lecture).
4. “A Journey of Light-Harvesting Transition Metal Polypyridyl Complexes in Catalysis to Interconversion of Energy” at
IIT Kharagpur, India (26th March 2019) (Invited departmental lecture).
5. “Applications of Light Harvesting Transition Metal Polypyridyl Complexes from Catalysis to Interconversion of
Energy” at IISER Kolkata, India (28th January 2019) (Invited departmental lecture).
6. “Light-to-Energy and Energy-to-Light Interconversion Using Transition Metal Complexes” at NCL-Pune, India (14-15th
December 2018) in a conference on Carbon Capture and Its Utilization (Invited lecture, IL1).
7. “Interconversion of Energy using Light Harvesting Transition Metal Polypyridyl Complexes” at JNCASR Bangalore,
India (10-13th December 2018) on Newton-Bhabha researcher link fellowship (Invited lecture, S21).
8. “Conversion of Energy using Light Harvesting Materials” at IISER-Kol, India (14-16th December 2017) on NewtonBhabha researcher link fellowship (Invited lecture, IL27).
9. “Design and Application of Light-harvesting materials for Photocatalytic H2-production and Solid-State Lighting (SSL)”
at IIT-Mandi, India (3rd October 2016) on Newton-Bhabha researcher link fellowship (Invited).
10. “Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Light Harvesting Chromophores (LHCs) based on Ru(II) and photochemical
self-assembly of LHCs” at Department of Chemistry, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India (21st September 2015)
(Invited).
11. “Strategic designing of ligand for long-lived excited-state in achiral and stereopure ruthenium(II)-polypyridyl
complexes” in workshop of photochemistry of nanoparticles 2014 at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil (29th April 2014) organized by CAPES-DFAIT (Invited).
12. “Fac- and mer-coordination geometries of a flexible, strong donor ligand around Ru(II/III) and influence of donation on
the photophysical properties of its complexes” in CBGRC 2013 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (22nd
November 2013).
13. “A strong -donor ligand with flexible metal coordination geometries and influence of -donation on the photophysical
properties of its complexes with Ru(II/III)” in 46th Inorganic Discussion Weekend (IDW 2013) at York University,
Toronto, Canada (8-10th November 2013).
14. “Role of 2,2’-Bipyridine from Secondary Ligand to Protagonist: Low-Energy, Red Emission from a Ruthenium(II)-to-
2,2’-Bipyridine 3MLCT State in a new class of Ruthenium(II)-polypyridyl complexes” in Symposium Annuel de Chimie
Inorganic du Quebèc (SACIQ 2013) (10th August 2013).
15. “Synthesis and Characterisation of [3+3] Neutral Metal Self-assembled Novel Ensembles” in 5th French-Canadian
workshop in Supramolecular Chemistry in University of Calgary, Alberta (25th May 2012).
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16. “A [3+3] Neutral Metal Self-assembly approach to Novel Supramolecular Ensembles” in 95th Canadian Chemistry
Conferrence and Exhibition of Canadian Society of Chemistry (CSC) at Telus Convocation Centre, Calgary, Alberta (26-
30th May 2012).
17. “Dirhodium (II, II) tetramidinate complexes and their coupling products: structural and electrochemical properties” in
94th Canadian Chemistry Conferrence and Exhibition of Canadian Society of Chemistry (CSC), in Palais des Congrès,
Montreal (5-9th June 2011).
18. “Self-assembly approach to light-harvesting complexes” in 13th CBGRC, at University of Concordia (19th November
2010).
19. “Towards the Production of Hydrogen using Light-Harvesting Devices: Conversion of Solar Energy to Chemical
Energy” in Symposium Annuel de Chimie Inorganic du Quebèc (SACIQ XIV) (20th August 2010).
20. “A Self-assembly Approach of Chromophores” in 3rd France-Canada Workshop of Supramolecular Chemistry, in
University of Montreal (21-23rd June 2010).
21. “Synthesis of Tetramidinate dirhodium(II,II) complex and coupling on the complex: Structural and Electrochemical
Properties” in 12th CBGRC,  at University of Concordia (21st November, 2009)

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