Uday Maitra is an Indian organic chemist and a professor in the department of organic chemistry at the

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was ...

. He is known for his studies on molecular tools and supramolecular assemblies. He is a recipient of the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

, one of the highest Indian science awards.

Biography

Born in Durgapur, Maitra secured B.Sc. in Chemistry from Presidency College(then affiliated to

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public collegiate state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best state research university all over India every year, ...

) and PhD in 1986 from

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, working under the guidance of

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and did his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of Paul A. Bartlett of the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. His studies are characterized by the new methodologies he employed in developing supramolecular assemblies and molecular tools like receptors, tweezers and gelators. He has published his researches in a number of peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 142 of them. He has mentored many doctoral scholars and is involved in initiatives for the popularization of chemistry. He has participated in seminars to deliver plenary/invited addresses, was a member of the Indian delegation at the Indo-German Symposium on ''Frontiers of Chemistry'' organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and is a member of the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. The

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the ...

, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the

, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2001, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

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