Raja Angamuthu
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Raja Angamuthu received his bachelor’s (2000) and master’s degrees (2002) from Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli; practiced bioinorganic chemistry as a research assistant in Palaniandavar’s group (2002–2005); moved to Leiden University in March 2005 for PhD (Jan Reedijk and Elisabeth Bouwman), where he mimicked the enzyme NiFe hydrogenase. After receiving his PhD (Oct 2009), he became a Rubicon postdoctoral fellow (independent fellowship from the Dutch government) in the group of Prof. Thomas B. Rauchfuss at UIUC from April 2010, where he worked on the development of bio-inspired NiRu complexes and isolated the much sought-after cofactor aza-dithiol in its N-protected form. In July 2012, he was appointed as an assistant professor of chemistry at IIT Kanpur, promoted to associate professor in 2018, and became a professor in 2024 (effective from 2023). His present interests include (1) studying multicomponent pools inspired by primordial soup to find emergent molecules, (2) using bio-inspired weak interactions in the sequestration and activation of environmentally detrimental molecules; and (3) organic and metal hydrides.
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Amarish Kumar
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Amarish (18107265) is from Kanpur. He graduated from CSJM University, Kanpur. Working with pyridinophane-based Ni(II) complexes for metal-hydrides.
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Archana Yadav
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Archana (20207262) is from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. She graduated from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Working on deracemisation of koneramines. Archana holds a Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship.
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Neha Kumari
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Neha (21107268) is from Nawada, Bihar. She graduated from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Developing new triazines for small molecule sequestration employing bio-inspired weak interactions.
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Shruthi Dinesh
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Shruthi (21207268) is from Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu. She graduated from the Central University of Tamilnadu, Tiruvarur. Developing new hydrides for sulfur dioxide activation. Shruthi holds Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship.
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Pranaya Mohanty
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Pranay (231070624) is from Cuttack, Odisha. He graduated from Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneswar. Developing pyrene appended koneramines, to begin with.
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Amandeep Srivastav
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Aman (231070603) is from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. He graduated from the University of Allahabad; busy with his coursework at the moment.
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Ashutosh Vishwakarma
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Ashutosh (221289) is from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He got bachelor’s degree from Banaras Hindu University; studying master’s at IIT Kanpur. He is getting trained by Amarish (metal-hydrides), Neha (triazines) and others (koneramines) for his MSc projects.