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ABOUT ME

Career Highlights

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  • Authored multiple research grant proposals that resulted in over $3M research funds

  • Conceptualized and designed research instruments that resulted in multiple high-impact research publications

  • Managed more than 10 research projects from inception to finish in time and within budget

  • Delivered over 20 research publications as a lead author, including a couple in the prestigious  journal-Science

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Skills and Qualifications

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  • Science: Research · Data collection/ analysis/ interpretation · Outstanding written communications- articles, reports, grants

  • Technical: Conceptualization and Actualization of Scientific Instruments  · VUV/UV/IR lasers and light sources  · Cryogenic systems · Mass-spectrometry   · Vacuum systems · Gas and liquid chromatography  · UV/VIS/IR Spectroscopy · SEM, TEM imaging

  • Leadership and Mentoring: Leadership in workplace  · Team building and teamwork · Teaching and training  · Mentoring, advising and consulting  

  • Business: Project management  · Oral communication  · Risk management  · Workplace safety management · Large-scale event planning and execution

  • Computing: Software Packages MS Office Suite, Projectlibre, Fortran, C, HTML, MATLAB and R 

  • Languages: English (native fluency), Bengali (native fluency), Hindi (near-native fluency)

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EDUCATION

2002

Ph.D. (Physics)

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

Dissertation: "Anomalous fractionation of oxygen isotopes in photochemical reactions"

Advisor: Prof. S. K. Bhattacharya

1996

M.Sc. (Physics)

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Dissertation: "Design and fabrication of a Multi-Channel Analyzer for radioactive counting"

Advisor: Dr. M. Trivedi, Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata, India

1993

B.Sc. (Physics)

Burdwan University (Katwa College), Burdwan, India

With Mathematics and Electronics

APPOINTMENTS

March 2009 - Present

Project Scientist

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Sept 2007 - June 2008

Academic Faculty

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

August 2003 - February 2009

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Nov 2002 - July 2003

Postdoctoral Fellow

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

July1998 - Nov 2002

Research Fellow

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

July 1996- June 1998

Project Associate

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

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