Pradipta Purkayastha
Name: Pradipta Purkayastha
Qualification: Ph.D.
Designation : Professor
Department: Chemical Sciences
institute name : Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
College address : IISER Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, WB, India
Award for : Research Excellence Award
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title : α-Cyclodextrin Functionalized Carbon Dots: Pronounced Photoinduced Electron Transfer by Aggregated Nanostructures
Journal Name : Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume : 120
Issue No. : 26
Month of publication : June
Year : 2016
Page no. : 14365
ISSN : 1932-7455
About Pradipta Purkayastha
Professor Pradipta Purkayastha obtained his bachelors and masters degrees from the
University of Calcutta in 1996 and 1998, respectively. His subject of study was Chemistry with
specialization in Physical Chemistry. He qualified the GATE and NET in 1998 and 2000,
respectively. He did his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2002 where he focused his works
toward spectroscopy and photophysical processes. After his Ph.D., Prof. Purkayastha went for
post-doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, where he worked on protein
folding and dynamics of protein polymerization using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. He
returned from USA in 2004 to join as lecturer in Chemistry at the Birla Institute of Technology
and Science (BITS), Pilani. He was promoted to the position of Assistant Professor in 2007.
After a four and a half year long stay at BITS Pilani, he joined the Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata in 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor in
2013 and full Professor in 2018.
Prof. Purkayastha has teaching experience of more than sixteen years in national level institutes
and research experience of more than twenty one years of which sixteen years as an independent
researcher. His present research interests include studies on the modalities and modulations of
host-guest interactions and their applications in biological environments; synthesis, spectroscopy
and applications of metal nanoparticles and nanoclusters in nanomedicines and biological events,
and using fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
(FCS) to investigate the details of small molecule dynamics with single molecule resolution.
Prof. Purkayastha has guided 8 students for their Ph.D. and has publishes more than 100 research
papers in reputed national and international journals. He has completed 6 externally funded
research projects and 2 are in progress. He has attended 55 national and international conferences
and delivered 31 invited lectures. He is a life member of the Chemical Research Society of India
(CRSI), Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences (ISRAPS), Indian Association
for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Indian Photobiology Society (IPS), Eastern India
Horticulture and Biotechnology Centre, and International Journal for Research under Literal
Access (IJRULA). He is also member of the American Chemical Society and the American
Nano Society. His contributions to science and its development have been recognized by the
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India by awarding the Fast Track
Project for Young Scientists in 2006, Outstanding Faculty in Science Award by Venus
Foundation in 2018 and Research Ratna Award by the International Journal for Research under
Literal Access (IJRULA) in 2019. Prof. Purkayastha is also a fellow of the West Bengal
Academy of Science and Technology (WAST).