Inorganic Chemistry front cover
Moromi’s paper was featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry. Congratulations Moromi!
Group News
PhD defences, awards, journal covers and other news from the QSM Lab.
PCCP Inside Cover
Soumyajit and Biman’s paper was featured on the inside cover of PCCP. Congratulations Soumyajit and Biman!
Sanjukta Parida defends her PhD thesis
Sanjukta Parida successfully defended her PhD thesis in November 2025. Prof. Ayan Datta of IACS Kolkata was the examiner. Congratulations Sanjukta!
Kishan Kumar Dakua defends his PhD thesis
Kishan Kumar Dakua successfully defended his PhD thesis in November 2025. Prof. G. Naresh Patwari of IIT Bombay was the examiner. Congratulations Kishan!
Harshdeep Singh defends his PhD thesis
Harshdeep Singh successfully defended his PhD thesis in November 2025. Prof. Sanjay Kumar of IIT Madras was the examiner. Congratulations Harshdeep!
The Science Matters covers Harshdeep's SHARC-VQE algorithm
The Science Matters news portal highlighted Harshdeep Singh’s work on the Simplified Hamiltonian Approach with Refinement and Correction (SHARC) enabled Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) for molecular simulation. Congratulations Harshdeep!
Shalini Joshi defends her PhD thesis
Shalini Joshi successfully defended her PhD thesis in September 2025. Prof. Gopalan Rajaraman of IIT Bombay was the examiner. Congratulations Shalini!
Quantum Zeitgeist features Harshdeep's work
Harshdeep Singh’s work on using quantum computing to study the excited states of molecular systems was highlighted by Quantum Zeitgeist, a portal covering emerging trends in quantum computing and quantum technologies. Congratulations Harshdeep!
Inorganic Chemistry front cover
Kishan and Rituparna’s paper was featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry. Congratulations Kishan and Rituparna!
Sanjukta's paper on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. C
Sanjukta Parida’s paper was featured on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations Sanjukta!
Soumyajit conducts a Python in Chemistry workshop
Soumyajit Karmakar conducted a workshop on Python in Chemistry at Midnapore City College. Congratulations Soumyajit!
Sourav's paper on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B
Sourav Manna’s paper was featured on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B. Congratulations Sourav!
Best Oral Presentation Award for Soumyajit
Soumyajit Karmakar received the Best Oral Presentation Award at Statistical Mechanics in Chemistry and Biology (SMCB 2024), IIT Tirupati, December 17–19, 2024. Congratulations Soumyajit!
Sunita Muduli defends her PhD thesis
Sunita Muduli successfully defended her PhD thesis in November 2024. Prof. Lalitha Guruprasad of the University of Hyderabad was the examiner. Congratulations Sunita!
Soumyajit becomes an Associate Member of the RSC
Soumyajit Karmakar was selected as an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Congratulations Soumyajit!
Best Flash Talk Prize for Moromi
Moromi Nath received the Best Flash Talk Prize at Advances in Functional Solids (AFS 2024), Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, November 9–12, 2024. Congratulations Moromi!
Sanjukta's paper on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B
Sanjukta Parida’s paper was featured on the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B. Congratulations Sanjukta!
Moromi gives a popular science lecture
Moromi Nath was invited to give a popular science lecture, “The Beauty of Chemistry”, for school students in Silchar, Assam. Congratulations Moromi!
Best Poster Prize for Harshdeep
Harshdeep Singh received the Best Poster Prize at the Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS 2023), Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, December 7–10, 2023. Congratulations Harshdeep!
Atanuka Paul defends her PhD thesis
Atanuka Paul successfully defended her PhD thesis in May 2023. Prof. Arnab Mukherjee of IISER Pune was the examiner. Congratulations Atanuka!
Best Poster Prize for Sunita
Sunita Muduli received the Best Poster Prize at the National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemistry: Theoretical and Computational Aspects (RAC-TCA 2022), organized by NIT Meghalaya and North Eastern Hill University, November 18–20, 2022. Congratulations Sunita!
Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for Soumyajit
Soumyajit Karmakar received the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) from the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in October 2022. Congratulations Soumyajit!
Best Poster Prize for Kishan
Kishan Kumar Dakua received the Best Poster Prize at Current Trends in Theoretical Chemistry, BARC Mumbai, September 22–24, 2022. Congratulations Kishan!
Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for Harshdeep
Harshdeep Singh received the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) from the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in May 2022. Congratulations Harshdeep!
PCCP Poster Prize for Sunita
Sunita Muduli received the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Poster Prize at the National Conference on Molecular Modelling and Simulations (NCMMS 2022), VIT Bhopal, February 28 – March 2, 2022. Congratulations Sunita!
Best Mini Oral Presentation Award for Soumyajit
Soumyajit Karmakar received the Best Mini Oral Presentation Award at MedChem 2021, a virtual conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Therapeutic Strategies organized by IIT Madras, December 1–3, 2021.
First Prize at Qiskit Fall Fest for Harshdeep
Harshdeep Singh won First Prize for the project “Random Number Generator using a Variational Quantum Circuit” at Qiskit Fall Fest 2021, organized by Ahmedabad University on October 17, 2021.
Vipin Kumar Mishra defends his PhD thesis
Vipin Kumar Mishra successfully defended his PhD thesis in October 2021. Prof. Prasad Bharatam of NIPER Mohali was the examiner.
Indian Chemical Society award for Vipin
Vipin Kumar Mishra received the Professor Santi Ranjan Palit Memorial Award for oral presentation at the 57th Annual Convention of Chemists and International Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences (RTCS-2020), organized by the Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, December 26–29, 2020.
Soumitra Manna defends his PhD thesis
Soumitra Manna successfully defended his PhD thesis in August 2020. Prof. Sanjay Kumar of IIT Madras was the examiner.
Young Scientist Award for Vipin
Vipin Kumar Mishra received the Young Scientist Award at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (ICSEEC-2020), organized by G. H. Raisoni University, Madhya Pradesh, on July 21, 2020.
Sabyasachi Roy Chowdhury defends his PhD thesis
Sabyasachi Roy Chowdhury successfully defended his PhD thesis in February 2020. Prof. Kumar Vanka of NCL Pune was the examiner.
Best Poster Award for Sabyasachi
Sabyasachi Roy Chowdhury received the Best Poster Award at Recent Advances in Molecular Magnetism, IIT Kharagpur, November 2019.
Best Poster Award for Soumitra
Soumitra Manna received the Best Poster Award at the 9th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APATCC), Sydney, Australia, October 2019.
Debodyuti Dutta defends his PhD thesis
Debodyuti Dutta successfully defended his PhD thesis in October 2017. Prof. Balasubramanian of JNCASR Bangalore was the examiner.
Best Poster Award for Sabyasachi
Sabyasachi Roy Chowdhury received the Best Poster Award at Modern Trends in Molecular Magnets, IIT Bombay, May 2016, from Prof. Annie K. Powell, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Debodyuti speaks at Young Scientists Meet
Debodyuti Dutta spoke on “On the Mechanism of Action of DapE from QM/MM Study” at Recent Developments of Chemical Science and Technology: A Young Scientists Meet, NIT Rourkela, March 2014.