Dr. Nilanjana Majumdar
Dr. Nilanjana Majumdar started her chemistry journey from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India. She completed her undergraduate education there with first class first in B.Sc. (Chemistry Hons.). In 2003, she went to IIT Kharagpur to pursue Masters. For Ph.D., she moved to United States in 2006 and worked under the supervision of Professor William D. Wulff in Michigan State University. After graduation in 2012, she moved to Tokyo, Japan for first postdoctoral experience in Professor Masakatsu Shibasaki's group with JSPS fellowship. After three years in Japan, she worked in Professor Benjamin List's group for one year in Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany. In April, 2018, she joined CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI), Lucknow as Senior Scientist in Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division. Since 2022, she has been promoted to the post of Principal Scientist.
Awards:
2025 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2022 Dr. Mridula Kamboj Award for Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines and Related Basic Research-2021
2021 CDRI Incentive Award for Technology 2021, Title: Process for the Preparation of Umifenovir
(Antiviral)
2019 DST-SERB Early Career Research Award
2016 Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der
Ruhr, Germany)
2013 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
2012 IMC Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research (Japan)
2006 Doctoral fellowship (Michigan State University, USA)
2005 Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET, NET-JRF)
2003 First Class First in Bachelor of Science (B. Sc. Chemistry Hons.) (Visva-Bharati University)
Invited Talks/Conferences:
2020 CRSI National Chemistry week (5th Nov, 2020) organized by CRSI North Bengal Chapter
(University of North Bengal) (virtual platform)
2022 International Conference on "Chemical Sciences: Academia, Industry & Society Interface (ICCS
2022)" (23-25 June) as a collaborative and sponsored outcome of KSTA (Karnataka Science and
Technology Academy) and SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) (virtual platform)
2022 FORCE-IICS meeting, Agra (28-31 July, 2022)
2023 NOST, Aurangabad (17-20 February, 2023)
2023 ICOC, Goa (International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis, 30th October to 2nd
November, 2023)
2023 IFSC (Indo-French Seminar on Catalysis for Sustainability, 10-13 December, 2023) at IISER-
Thiruvananthapuram
2024 FCSB (Indo-French Seminar on Fostering Catalysis for Societal Benefit, 15-17 January, 2024) at
School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad
2024 ETCS-2024 “Emerging Trends in Catalysis & Synthesis” March 7-9, 2024) at IIT Kharagpur
2024 Thieme Cheminar (virtual platform) on May 29, 2024
2024 Organic Chemistry Symposium (OCS 2024, September 8-9, 2024) at IIT Kanpur
2025 2nd International Conference on “Emerging Areas of Chemistry” (ICEAC 2025) (12th – 14th
February, 2025) in Tripura University