Qualifications

Ph.D. Chemistry (Synthetic Organic Chemistry) CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, 1996
P.Tech. Petroleum & Refining (PGD), Dibrugarh University, 1991
M.Sc. Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) Dibrugarh University, 1990

Professional Experience

Associate Dean of Adminstration: 14th February 2025
Highest Academic Grade (HAG) Professor: 27th January, 2018
Head, Central Instrument Facility (CIF): Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2009-2013
Professor: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, 2011
Assistant Professor: Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati, 2001
Post Doctoral position: Florida State University, Florida (Prof. Robert A. Holton) USA, 2000-2001
Post Doctoral position: Okayama University, Okayama (Prof. Sadao Tsuboi) Japan, 1998-2000
Research Scientist: Chembiotek Research International, Salt Lake, 1998
Research Scientist: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata, 1997-1998

Awards & Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Bronze medal, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)

Other Responsibilities

1. Member of Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemistry, Nowgong University, Nowgong, Assam, November 2025
2. Member of Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemistry, Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur, July 2025
3. Member of Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemistry, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, July 2025
4. Member of Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemistry, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, March 2024
5. Member of Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, November 2023
6. Member of Tender committee: Bhattadev University, Assam, January 2022
7. Member of the Technical Committee for the purchase of 400 MHz NMR machine: Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, Assam, November 2021
8. Member of the Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemical Sciences of Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, May 2018
9. Member of Project Implementation Committee: Commissionerate of Food & Drugs Administration, Bamunimaidan, Assam, April, 2018
10. Member of Technical committee for the purchase of Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS attachment (SEM-EDS): Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, September 2017
11. Nominated for President of the Governing Body of North Guwahati College by the Directorate of Higher Education, Govt. of Assam, January 2015 - January 2020
12. Board of Governor's Nominee for the Faculty Selection Committee, NIT Meghalaya, July 2014
13. Member of Screening cum Evaluation Committee for promotion under CAS of UGC from the lower grade of Assistant Professors/equivalents of the Department of Chemistry, Tezpur University, November 2011
14. Member of Board of Studies (BOS): Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Itanagar from 2010-2014