Sanjib Senapati is an Indian

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and a professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the

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. He is known for his studies in the fields of

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, green chemistry and

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and is a

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. The

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of the Government of India awarded him the

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, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2015.

Biography

Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, IIT Madras

Born in the Indian state of

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, Sanjib Senapati secured his master's degree from the

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and did his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur which earned him a PhD. Subsequently, he joined the

(IITM) as a faculty member of the department of biotechnology and holds the position of a professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences at IITM. The team led by him focuses their research in the fields of

, green chemistry and

. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and

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, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 110 of them. The

(DBT) of the Government of India awarded Senapati the

, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2015. In 2017, he was selected for the

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program by the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for working on a project at the laboratory of Andrej Šali of the

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, during 2017–18.

Selected bibliography

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Biography

Selected bibliography

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