Bioinorganic Chemistry

Professor S. P. Rath received his PhD in Chemistry from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata under the supervision of Prof. Animesh Chakravorty. He then worked as a NIH post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis (USA) and joined the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 2004 where he has been a full professor since 2014. He has received several awards and honours including P. K. Kelkar Research Fellowship for young faculty (2009-12), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher (2012), Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze medal (2015), C. N. R. Rao National Prize in Chemical Sciences (2019), Professor R S Varma Memorial Award by Indian Chemical Society (2020), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellowship (2020) and SERB-Science and Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR) (2020). He is presently a Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) Professor and J. N. Gupta & M. Gupta Chair Professor of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur and elected fellows of National Academy of Sciences, India (2017), West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (2017), Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2020) and Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2021). He has taught a variety of UG and PG courses at IIT Kanpur and also has received “Excellence-in-Teaching” award from IIT Kanpur in 2021. He has guided around 20 PhD students and has over 130 research publications in peer reviewed high-impact journals. His research is in the fields of Physical–Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry with special emphasis on the structure-function correlation utilizing a wide variety of synthetic and spectroscopic methods combined with DFT calculations.