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DDas Research Group

                         ... the systems chemistry lab​

                                About Dibyendu                         

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Dibyendu Das is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences of IISER Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He obtained his PhD at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India and postdoctoral training from Emory University, USA. His research group is interested in emerging field of systems chemistry, chemical evolution and peptide nanotechnology.

“I grew up in Kolkata, the city of joy located in eastern part of India. I was always fascinated how living systems work from the perspective of a chemist. The intelligence and autonomy of living matter keep inspiring me to attempt synthetizing materials with adaptive properties. Also, the questions of chemical origin of life and chemical evolution excite my lab. Regarding hobbies, I love cooking Bengali cuisines & swimming. Cross country drives for travelling also excite me a lot. And to top it all, I have a 4-year-old daughter who keeps me busy when I am back home! 

                                                                                                                                                      

     

Current position 

2017-2021 Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata

2021-present Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata.

Awards and Distinctions       

  • Early Career Advisory Board of RSC Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024 onwards.

  • Editorial Advisory Board of ChemSystemsChem, 2023 onwards.

  • Awarded CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2023.

  • Featured in "75 under 50 scientists shaping today's India" compendium. On National Science Day, Honorable Minister of State for the Ministry of Science &Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh released this coffee table book published by Vigyan Prasar.

  • Article featured in the virtual issue of the JACS Early Career Investigators as an outstanding work published in 2020. 

  • Awarded CRSI Young Investigator Award 2021 at 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry organized by IISER Kolkata

  • Awarded Indian Peptide Society-Young Scientist Award (IPS-YSA) for excellence in Peptide Research  for the year 2021. 

  • Awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Chemical Science 2020, DST, Govt of India.(https://dst.gov.in/swarna-jayanti-fellow-develop-intelligent-materials-taking-inspiration-living-matter).

  • Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Reviews 2020-2021.

  • Selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) 2019.

  • Advisory Board of Materials Horizons from  2021.

  • International Advisory Board (IAB) of AsianJOC from 2021 onwards.

  • Awarded INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India.

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Invited Lectures (India and Abroad)    

  • Dibyendu Das "Adaptive Life Inspired Objects via Systems Chemistry" in RCTS-2022, at Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, IIT ISM Dhanbad on 16th December 2022.

  • Dibyendu Das "Adaptive Life Inspired Objects via Systems Chemistry" in Department Seminar at Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata on 14th December 2022.​

  • Dibyendu Das " Adaptive Life Inspired Objects via Systems Chemistry" at Refresher Course in Chemistry 2022, Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta on 6th December 2022. 

  • Dibyendu Das " Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions" at 27th ISCB International Conference(ISCBC-2022) on "Research and Innovation in Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Sciences." held at BIT Mesra on 17th November 2022. 

  • Dibyendu Das "Adaptive Life Inspired Objects via Systems Chemistry" in SERB-DFG conclave a Week of Young Researcher, held at The Lalit, Delhi on 7th November 2022, organized by DFG, SERB and IIT Delhi. 

  • Dibyendu Das "Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions" in Conference on Smart Materials for Sustainable Technology -II (SMST-II), held at IIT Bombay from 13-16th October 2022, hosted jointly by IIT Bombay and IIT (BHU), Varanasi.

 

  • Dibyendu Das “Living Matter Like Materials via Complex Chemical Systems”  in 2022 edition of the interdisciplinary Indo-German workshop during October 6-9, 2022, titled "Complex Chemical Systems (IGW-CCS-2022).

 

  • Dibyendu Das “Living Matter Like Materials via Systems Chemistry” in 2nd Annual Meeting of the Chemical Biology Unit (Nano@ChemBio 2022) held during 16th and 17th September, 2022 in Mohali, India.

 

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 28, 2022 in FORCE-IICS 2022 organized by IISER Kolkata in association with IIT Kanpur and IISER Bhopal at Jaypee Palace, Agra.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 19, 2022 at Amity University, Kolkata, India.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 13, 2022 at Chemical Engineering Department, Radboud University, Netherlands.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 12, 2022 at Chemical Engineering Department, TU Delft, Netherlands.

  • Dibyendu Das “Supramolecular Materials under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 6, 2022 at LivMats, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  • Dibyendu Das “Supramolecular Materials under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 8, 2022 at LivMats, Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS), France.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  on July 2, 2022 at Chemistry Department, University of Mainz, Germany.

  • Dibyendu Das “Short Peptide-based Nanostructures as Micro-swimmers for Potential Biosensor Applications” on June 18, 2022 at National Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (NatFoE) organized by Jadavpur University

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  on April 8, 2022 at Chemistry Department, Shiv Nadar University, India.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions” on March 26, 2022 at annual symposium of the School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Science, IACS Kolkata, India.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate Driven Non-Equilibrium Catalysts”  at Meet (Chemistry) at Manali, March 21, 2022.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate induced catalyst formation under non-equilibrium conditions”  at “Substrate Driven Non-Equilibrium Catalysts" on March 11, 2022 at annual symposium of the School of Chemical Science, IACS Kolkata, India.

  • Dibyendu Das “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?”  at “Current Trends in Drug Discovery Research" CTDDR-2022, March 13, 2022, at CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow, India.

  • Dibyendu Das “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?”  Sustainable Development with Women empowerment jointly organized by ISCA BBSR Chapter, March 3, 2022, School of Chemistry, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India.

  •  Dibyendu Das “Substrate Induced Catalyst Formation Under Non-Equilibrium Conditions” Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences (RETICS-2021) December 10-11, 2021School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University.

  •  Dibyendu Das “Substrate Induced Catalyst Formation Under Non-Equilibrium Conditions” XXI NOST-Organic Chemistry Conference at The Leela Palace, Chennai, during November 25-28, 2021.

  • Dibyendu Das “Substrate Induced Catalyst Formation Under Non-Equilibrium Conditions” Recent Advances in Materials And Nanoscience (RAMAN'21) on the 12th of November, 2021, Department of Chemistry, Ramananda college, Bishnupur.

  • Dibyendu Das “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” 7th CRSI-NSC meeting at Novotel Kolkata Hotel and Residences during September 26-30, 2021.

  • Dibyendu Das “Systems Chemistry of Equilibrium and Out of Equilibrium Catalytic Self Assemblies” National Webinar on Importance of Chemistry in Biological Sciences at Sidho Kanho Birsha University, held on 25th August, 2021.

  •  Dibyendu Das “Substrate Induced Catalytic Microphases: Equilibrium and Out of Equilibrium Systems Chemistry” Advanced Materials for Better Tomorrow: Impacting Energy, Heath, and Environment organized by IIT (BHU), Varanasi, and Society for Interdisciplinary Research in Materials and Biology (SIRMB) during 13th - 17th July 2021.

  •  Dibyendu Das “Mimicking Living Matter that Evades Equilibrium?”  DBS Seminar at IISER Kolkata, 7th April, 2021.

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” “Chemical Society” organized by IISER Trivandrum held on 26th March, 2021.

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” “Indian Peptide Society Award Lecture” organized by IISc Bangalore held on 25th March, 2021.

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” “Talk at Refreshers Course” organized by Calcutta University held on 24th March, 2021.

  • “Driven Generation of Non-Equilibrium Chemical Systems” “ChemSystemsMeet” organized by University of Bonn held on 23rd March, 2021.

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” “Department Seminar” organized by University of Houston held on 9th February, 2021.

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” “Online Seminar” organized by University of Akron held on 28th January, 2021.

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity emerges from chemistry?” “RTCS OBC 2020” organized by IISER Kolkata held on 29th December, 2020.

 

  • “Systems Chemistry: How complexity can emerge from chemistry?” “CV-19 Seminar series:2020” organized by University of Miami, USA held on 19th December, 2020.

 

  • “Designed Negative Feedback from Catalytic Non-Equilibrium Assemblies” “NWNTD 2020” organized by IIT Guwahati held on 2nd December, 2020.

 

  • “How Complexity Emerges from Chemistry” “Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)- Kolkata Chapter:2020” held on 6th November, 2020.

 

  • “How Complexity Emerges from Chemistry” “RACMS:2020” held on the 15th of August, 2020.

 

  • “Catalytic Chemical Networks with Minimal Dynamic Systems” “Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai, Seminar 2020” held on 8th June, 2020.

 

  • “Designed Negative Feedback from Catalytic Non-Equilibrium Assemblies” “Systems Chemistry Symposium:2020” held via virtual conference from May 18-20, 2020.

 

  • “Catalytic Chemical Networks with Dynamic Minimal Systems” “Recent Trends in Chemistry:2020” held at Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology (NIT) Manipur from 6th to 10th February, 2020.

 

  • “Catalytic Chemical Networks with Dynamic Minimal Systems” “Recent Trends in Chemistry:2019” held at Department of Chemistry North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Shillong on 31st October and 1st November, 2019.

 

  • “Catalytic Chemical Networks with Dynamic Minimal Systems” at 43rd Meeting of Indian Biophysical Society (IBS2019) held at IISER Kolkata on 15th to 17th March, 2019.

  • “Self-Propagating Functional Peptide Nanomaterials.” Newton Bhabha Researcher Links Workshop (NMSB - 2017) IISER Kolkata, India, December 14 - 16 2017.

 

  • “Self-Constructing Peptide Nanophases for Substrate Channelling & Enzyme like Traits” 5th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN2017), during 18-21 December 2017, in IIT Guwahati-Assam.

 

  • “Supramolecular Catalysts for Chemical Evolution” Inter-IISER Chemistry Meet (IICM 2017) held at IISER Bhopal during January 20 - 22, 2017.

 

  • “Functional Amyloid Nanostructures for Chemical Evolution” at Indian Peptide Symposium held at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in Mumbai (Bombay), during February 23-24, 2017.

 

  • “Supramolecular Catalysts for Chemical Evolution” at Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS) – 2016 December 8- 10, 2016 held at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

 

  • “Functional Soft-nanoconjugates: From cellular delivery to C-C bond manipulation” at the “International Conference on Interdisciplinary areas with Chemical Sciences” (ICIACS 2013) during 30th October-1st November, 2013 organized by Panjab Unversity in association with Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST).

 

  • “Foreshadowing RNA-Peptide Collaboration” at the “Annual Meeting for the Center for Chemical Evolution” held at GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, USA during August 2-5, 2012.

  • “Catalytic Chemical Networks with Dynamic Minimal Systems” at DCS Day held at IISER Kolkata on 8th March, 2019.

 

  • “Catalytic Chemical Networks with Dynamic Minimal Systems” at national conference on “Smart Materials and Sustainable Technologies (NCSMST)” at DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, UP-273009 on 23rd and 24th February 2019.

 

  • "Catalytic Chemical Networks and Energy Dissipation in Dynamic Minimal Systems". DST supported special Workshop at Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali from 03th -08th December, 2018.

 

  • "Energy Dissipation in Dynamic Minimal Systems"."One day discussion on Supramolecular Chemistry" at IISER Kolkata on 17 December 2018.​

  • "Peptides with Enzyme like traits” Kaleidoscope-A discussion meeting in Chemistry, 05-08 July, 2018, The International Centre Goa, Goa.

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