Dr. Indranil Chatterjee was born in Kolkata, India in 1983. He obtained his B.Sc. from Calcutta University, India in 2006, and then he moved to IIT Kharagpur for his M.Sc. study. In 2008 he moved to Germany for his Ph.D. study at Westfälische Wilhelms-University Muenster under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Armido Studer, where his studies centered on catalytic asymmetric cycloaddition reactions. After finishing his Ph.D. study in November 2011, he joined as a Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Paolo Melchiorre in ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain in 2012. His area of research mainly focused on new organocatalytic cascade reactions. After that from 2014 to 2016 he did another Post-Doc with Prof. Martin Oestreich at the Technische Universität Berlin, concentrating his research on Lewis acid catalysis. Since December 2016 he is holding a position of Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India.
Academic Background
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Ph.D. (2011): Institute of Organic Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany.
(Thesis Advisor: Prof. Armido Studer).
M.Sc. (Chemistry) (2008): Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India.
(Thesis Advisor: Prof. Jaynta Kumar Ray). Cumulative Grade point: 8.93 out of 10
B. Sc. (Chemistry) (2006): University of Calcutta, India (73.4%)
Professional Career
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Assistant Professor (Since Dec. 2016): Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar.
Post-Doctoral fellows (2014-2016): Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
(Advisor: Prof. Martin Oestreich)
Post-Doctoral fellows (2012-2014): ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain.
(Advisor: Prof. Paolo Melchiorre)
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