ABOUT ME
Group Leader
Senior Scientist
Materials Processing & Microsystems Laboratory
CSIR – Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, Durgapur 713209, West Bengal.
Dr. Poulomi ROY
Dr. Poulomi Roy received her M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Vidyasagar University, India in 2002 and obtained her PhD on Inorganic Nanomaterials from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2007. She spent 2008-2011 at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany as a postdoctoral research fellow, where she worked on the development of self-organized TiO2-based nanostructures and their various applications. She has spent 5 years working as an Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, India. Currently, she is working as a Senior Scientist at CSIR–CMERI, Durgapur. Her current research interests include the synthesis of semiconductor nanomaterials and their applications in energy conversion and storage devices.
Associate Editor, Nano Select, Wiley
Reviewer of ACS, RSC, WILEY and Elsevier journals and for SERB-DST research proposals.
CONTACT
We are actively looking for talented and enthusiastic students from the following backgrounds to be a part of the group for project and Ph.D. programs.
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Inorganic Chemistry
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Physical Chemistry
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Solid State Physics
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Material Chemistry
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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Chemical Engineering
Interested candidates are encouraged to send their CV to poulomiroy@yahoo.com
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
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Awarded Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Scholarship 2016-17 at University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
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Outstanding Researcher award in 2010 in University of Erlangen – Nuremberg, Germany.
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Awarded Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2002 in chemistry with 95.90 percentile (All India Rank: 102) conducted by the IISc, Bangalore, India.
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Awarded National Eligibility Test (NET) 2002 for Junior Research Fellowship in Chemical Sciences under the University Grant Commission (UGC) fellowship schemes.
RESEARCH FUNDING
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DST – Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) research grant on electrocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production. (Ongoing)
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CSIR - H2 Mission Focused Basic Research (FBR) on Strategies for Seawater Splitting. (Ongoing)
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SERB - POWER Grant on Wastewater and seawater splitting for hydrogen generation. (Ongoing)
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DST – TARE project on iron oxide based drug delivery system. (Ongoing)
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CSIR FTT project on activated carbon from biomass wastes. (Completed)
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In-house Project on development of Outdoor Air Purifier prototypes. (Completed)
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SERB-DST FASTTRACK research scheme for young scientist. (Completed)
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CSIR sponsored research grant. (Completed)