Dr. Moumita Majumdar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Energy Science at Indian Institute of Science Education Research (IISER) Pune, India, since May 2020.
She obtained PhD for her research on Transition-Metal Multiply Bonded Systems from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Jitendra K. Bera. Then she joined as Assistant Professor (specially appointed) in the research group of Prof. Kazushi Mashima, Osaka University, Japan, where she has worked on Transition-Metal Cluster Catalysis. In October 2011, she moved to Germany for her second Post-Doctoral stint in the research group of Prof. Dr. David Scheschkewitz, Saarland University, where she has gained expertise in Low-Valent Silicon Chemistry and their applications. She joined as an Assistant Professor at IISER Pune in October 2014. Her research interests are Low-Valent Main Group Compounds in catalysis and materials applications.
Professional Activities and Achievements
LN Mathur-Asima Chatterjee Women Scientist Award, Indian Chemical Society, 2023
Selected in She Is - 75 Women in Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry and The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, 2023
Selected to receive Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in 2024
Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers 2022
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society 2023-2025
Recipient of SERB-POWER Fellowship 2022
Member of the International Advisory Board, Chemistry-An Asian Journal, Wiley-VCH from 2022
Member of Early Career Advisory Board, ChemistryOpen, Wiley-VCH from 2022
Chem. Comm. Emerging Investigator 2020
DFG Collaborative Research Grant, 2019-2022.
'Erasmus+ International Mobility Program, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2019.
New Talent: Asia Pacific, Dalton Trans. 2019
'Best Short Lecture Award' in 17th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry (ISOS), Berlin, 2014.
'CREST Fellowship' (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology), Osaka University, Japan, 2011.
'Toyota Fellowship', Osaka University, Japan, 2010.
Travel Grant for Germany, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, 2008.
Travel Grant for Germany, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, 2008.