Jyotirmayee Dash is a professor at the

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in basic sciences under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. Established on 29 July ...

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, with research interests in topics related to

organic chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the science, scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic matter, organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain ...

and

chemical biology Chemical biology is a scientific discipline between the fields of chemistry and biology. The discipline involves the application of chemical techniques, analysis, and often small molecules produced through synthetic chemistry, to the study and m ...

in general. Jyotirmayee Dash obtained her PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT- Kanpur or IIT-K) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), it was declared an Institute of National Importance by th ...

in 2003 under the advisorship of Prof. F. A. Khan and her MSc degree from

Ravenshaw University Ravenshaw University, formerly known as Ravenshaw College, is a co-educational state university situated in Cuttack, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Ravenshaw College in 1868, the institution became a university in 2006. The u ...

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, India. She was an

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at the

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, Germany, during 2004–2006, a postdoctoral fellow at

ESPCI Paris ESPCI Paris (officially the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, , ''The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution'') is a grande école founded in 1882 by the city of ...

, France, during 2006–2007 and a Marie-Curie Fellow at

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, UK, during 2007–2009. She spent three years as an assistant professor at the

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (known as IISERK or IISER KOLKATA) is an public autonomous research institute in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, Ind ...

before joining the

in 2014.

Honours and awards

The honours and awards conferred on Jyotirmayee Dash include: *

Asian Scientist 100 The Asian Scientist 100 is an annually published list of 100 prize-winning Asian researchers, academicians, innovators and business leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region and a range of scientific disciplines. Recipients "must have received ...

, ''

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'', 2021 *Editorial Advisory Board Member,

ACS Omega ''ACS Omega'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2016 by the American Chemical Society. The editors-in-chief are Krishna Ganesh and Deqing Zhang. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2022 impa ...

, 2021 *International Advisory Board, Asian Journal of Chemistry, 2021 *

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Shanti or Shanthi may refer to: In Sanskrit * Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress * Kshanti, one of the paramitas of B ...

for Chemical Sciences, 2020 *Fellow of the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the ...

, FRSC, 2020 * CRSI Bronze Medal, 2020 *DBT/

Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of Burroughs Wellcome, one of the predec ...

Indian Alliance Senior Fellowship, 2020 *SwarnaJayanti Fellowship for the year 2015-2016

References

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