About Dr. Soumen Dey
Dr. Soumen Dey was born in Kolkata, the city of joy in the year 1977. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. (Chemistry), and B.Ed. from VisvaBharati University, Santiniketan (a university established by the great Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate). Thereafter he moved to Presidency University Kolkata in 2001 and joined as JRF in a UGC sponsored project on Arsenic poisoning. He then qualified CSIR-UGC-NET JRF in 2002 and joined the group of Prof. Sabyasachi Sarkar (AvH and Ramanna fellow)at I.I.T. Kanpur, India. He received a Ph.D. in the year 2009. The area of research was the eco-friendly synthesis and host-guest sensing by calixpyrrole based macromolecules. Reactivity with higher valent transition metals has been well demonstrated. He is experienced in spectroscopic, surface and crystallographic techniques.
