Rabindranath Mukherjee also known as R.N Mukherjee (born 19 April 1953, at Tribeni, Hooghly; West Bengal, India) is an Indian former

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

professor who is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. He was former Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

Education

Mukherjee holds an M.Sc. (Specialization in Inorganic Chemistry) from The University of Burdwan (1976), West Bengal, India obtained his PhD from The Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta (1983) working in the laboratory of Prof. Animesh Chakravorty, the then Head, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Calcutta (now Kolkata). After spending two years in the same laboratory as a post-doctoral research associate he joined the research group of Prof. R. H. Holm, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, USA during May 1985-September 1987.

Academic background

He became a member of the faculty as an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India in October 1987. Since December 1995 he is a Professor of Chemistry. He was Head of Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

Positions

# Post-doctoral Research Associate, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (in the laboratory of Professor Animesh Chakravorty), IACS, Calcutta (1983 - 1985) # Post-doctoral Research Associate (in the laboratory of Professor Richard H. Holm), Harvard University, USA (1985 - 1987) # Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

(1987 - 1993) # Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur (1993 - 1995) # Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur (1995–; on deputation from 01/02/2012 to 31/01/2017) # Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur (2010 - ) # Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur (Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair) (2011 - 2014)

Awards and honors

# Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, (Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair) (2011-2014) # Priyadaranjan Ray Memorial Award, Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata (2010) # J. C. Bose Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India (2008-2013) # Elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India (2008) # Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1999) # Silver Medal, Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore, Bangalore (2011) # Vice President, Chemical Research Society of India (2008- ) # Member, Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions (RSC) (2008-2011) # Member, Editorial Board of Inorganica Chimica Acta (Elsevier) (2011-2013)

References

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