Experience & education

Positions and training

1. 2024 – present

   MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow

   Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin

   Impact of lipid composition and transmembrane receptors on amyloid toxicity related to Alzheimer's disease

2. 2022 – 2023

   Postdoctoral Fellow

   Queen Mary University of London, UK

   Lipid nanoparticle-based nanocarriers for selective delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

3. 2021 – 2022

   Commonwealth Scholar

   University of Cambridge, UK

   Mechanistic study of tau aggregation induced by liquid–liquid phase separation inside protein condensate.

4. 2015 – 2021

   Ph.D. in Chemistry

   IIT Guwahati, Assam, India

   Investigation of amyloid aggregation mechanism and development of new therapeutic materials for mitigation of amyloid neurotoxicity associated with Alzheimer's disease

5. 2013 – 2015

   M.Sc. in Chemistry

   IIT Guwahati, Assam, India

   Master's project on tuning aggregation–disaggregation of naphthalene diimide-based supramolecular probes for chemosensing.

6. 2014

   Summer Internship

   Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India

   Colour-coded sensing of arsenic(III) in groundwater.

7. 2010 – 2013

   B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honours)

   Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Awards and achievements

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2024 — Horizon Europe and RCSI
• Commonwealth Scholarship, 2021 — Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK
• Best Project Award, COVID-19 Grand Challenge, 2020 — IIT Guwahati
• Best Poster Presentation, 10th Trilateral Conference on Nanoscience: Energy, Water & Healthcare, 2019 — NTU Singapore (Materials Research Society, Singapore)
• Travel grant for MC14, Aston University, London — SERB, Government of India
• GATE qualification, 2015 — IIT Kanpur
• Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, 2013 — IIT Guwahati
• 100% in Mathematics at 10+2 level, 2009 — West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

Expertise

1. Protein misfolding and amyloid aggregation
2. Designing model membranes and fine-tuning their physical properties
3. Fabrication of supported lipid bilayers (asymmetric)
4. Membrane-protein and protein-protein interactions
5. Liquid–liquid phase separation in proteins and peptides
6. Design and synthesis of protein inhibitors

Methods

1. Single-molecule techniques (FCS and FLIM)
2. Microscopy and imaging (AFM, SEM, TEM and confocal imaging)
3. Spectroscopy techniques (Raman, CD and fluorescence spectroscopy)