June 2022-Till date: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur, Maharashtra, India July 2012-May 2022: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
August 2008- June 2012: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, BITS, Pilani‐ K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa ‐403726, India.
Jan 2007-Jan 2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Dept. Of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 43403, USA.(With Prof. H. Peter Lu)
2005‐2006: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, PR, 00791, USA. (With Prof. Antonio E. Alegria)
2000-2004: Obtained Ph.D. (Chemistry) on December 2004 in Chemistry (Physical chemistry/spectroscopy) with Prof. Subhash Chandra Bhattacharya, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032, India.
Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Physicochemical studies of micelles, reverse micelles of Igepal and model biological membrane using photoactive compounds"
Membership: 1. Life member of Indian Society for the Surface science and Technology, Kolkata-700032, India. 2. Life member of Indian Association for the cultivation of Science, Kolkata-700032, India.
Award/Recognition (research): 1. Obtained TWAS-CnPq research fellowship by Third World Academy of Sciences in Dec 2004.
Other Contribution in science: Acts as an Reviewer in several American Chemical Society (ACS) journals (Journal of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Research in Toxicology etc), ElsevierScience, journals (Colloid Surface A: Physicochem Eng. Aspects Journal of Colloid Interface Science, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Bimolecular Spectroscopy etc) and other spectroscopic journals like Molecular Biology Reports etc.
