E-mail: alakananda.hajra@visva-bharati.ac.in
ahajra75@yahoo.com
Phone: 9474176402 (Cell)
Dr. Alakananda Hajra
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, Siksha Bhavana
Visva-Bharati (A Central University)
Santiniketan-731235, WB, India
Education
1998- 2003 ​Ph.D. IACS, Jadavpur University, Thesis Advisor: Prof. Brindaban C Ranu
1996-1998 M.Sc. IIT-Kharagpur, Thesis Advisor: Prof. Dipakranjan Mal
1993-1996 B.Sc. Calcutta University
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Professional Experience
2018-present Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
2006-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
2011-2012 Research Associate, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with Prof. Naohiko Yoshikai
2004-2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow(JSPS), The University of Tokyo, Advisor: Prof. Eiichi Nakamura and Prof. Masaharu Nakamura
2002-2004 Post-Doctoral Fellow, University at Albany, Advisor: Prof. Frank M. Hauser
Awards and Honors
2023 Featured in the World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University)
2019 Professor D Nasipuri Memorial Award by Indian Chemical Society
2021 CAS REGISTRY® Innovator
2018 Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal award
2018 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Bridge Fellowship
2015 “Professor D.K. Banerjee Memorial Lecture Award” from the Dept of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore for the notable contributions in Methodologies in Heterocyclic Chemistry
2014 Thesis advisor for Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Awardee
2015 Three years membership award for American Chemical Society (ACS)
2016 One of the top 10 Reviewers for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
2010 The excellent poster Award of the 11th Tetrahedron Symposium-Frontiers of Organic Chemistry, Beijing China
2004 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2004
1998 Qualified CSIR-NET JRF
Alakananda Hajra was born in Purba Medinipur in 1975. He obtained his M. Sc from IIT Kharagpur in 1998 and did M.Sc project work with Prof. Dipakranjan Mal. He did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Brindaban C. Ranu at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata in 2002. Then he joined in SUNY at Albany, USA as a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Frank M. Hauser (2002-2004). Subsequently, he moved to the University of Tokyo as a JSPS fellow and worked with Prof. Eiichi Nakamura and Prof. Masaharu Nakamura (2004-2006). Later, he also worked with Prof. Naohiko Yoshikai at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2011-2012). Alakananda started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the Visva-Bharati (A Central University) in 2006, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. His research interests include the development of new synthetic methodologies and green synthetic procedures.