Pijus Kumar Sasmal

Pijus Kumar Sasmal
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre: 
School of Physical Sciences
Room No: 
103 A
Off. Phone: 
011-2673 8932
Email: 
pijus@mail.jnu.ac.in pijussasmal@gmail.com
Personal Webpage: 
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications: 

Aug 2005 - Apr 2010: Ph.D, Dept. of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Supervisor: Prof. Akhil R. Chakravarty 
Aug 2003 - May 2005: M.Sc, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), Guwahati, India
Jul 1999 - Jul 2003: B.Sc, Midnapore College, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India 

Areas of Interest/Specialization: 

Metal-Catalyzed Bioorthogonal Reactions in Living Cells; Nano-Bio Conjugated System in Target Specific Drug Delivery & Imaging Applications; Biosensors 

Experience: 

Oct 30th 2015 - Present: Assistant Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India

Jul 2014 - Sep 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Advisor: Prof. Robert K. Prud’homme

Nov 2012 - Jun 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Advisor: Prof. KiBum Lee

Oct 2010 - Sep 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Eric Meggers

May 2010 - Sep 2010: Research Associate, Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Advisor: Prof. Akhil R. Chakravarty  

Awards & Honours: 

Best Ph.D Thesis Award in Inorganic Chemistry - Prof. S. Soundararajan Medal for the Academic Year 2010 - 2011, Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc Bangalore, India
International Travel Grant awarded by DST (Sep 2009), New Delhi, India
Junior/Senior Research Fellowships (Aug 2005 - Apr 2010), Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc Bangalore, India
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Feb 2005
Awarded National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by CSIR- UGC, June 2004 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5): 

Shreyas Shah,† Pijus K. Sasmal,† and Ki-Bum Lee “Photo-triggerable Hydrogel-Nanoparticle Hybrid Scaffolds for Remotely Controlled Drug Delivery” J. Mater. Chem. B, 2014, 2, 7685-7693. †These authors contributed equally to this work.

Pijus K. Sasmal, Craig N. Streu and Eric Meggers “Metal Complex Catalysis in Living Biological Systems” Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1581-1587. 

Pijus K. Sasmal, Susana Carregal-Romero, Wolfgang J. Parak, and Eric Meggers “Light-Triggered Ruthenium-Catalyzed Allylcarbamate Cleavage in Biological Environments” Organometallics 2012, 31, 5968-5970. 

Pijus K. Sasmal, Susana Carregal-Romero, Craig N. Streu, Zhijie Lin, Kazuhiko Namikawa, Samantha L. Elliott, Reinhard W. Köster, Wolfgang J. Parak, and Eric Meggers “Catalytic Azide Reduction in Biological Environments” ChemBioChem 2012, 13, 1116-1120. 

Pijus K. Sasmal, Sounik Saha, Ritankar Majumdar, Rajan R. Dighe, and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Oxovanadium(IV)-based near-IR PDT agents: design to biological evaluation” Chem. Commun., 2009, 1703-1705.