RSC-IISER Desktop Seminar with PCCP

Program Schedule

May 4, 2021 Tuesday, 03.00PM-5.45PM IST/10.30 AM-1.15 PM GMT


  • 3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Welcome Address Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
  • 3:05 PM-3:10 PM: Opening Remarks, Prof. J. N. Moorthy, Director, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
  • 3:10 PM-3:15 PM: Introduction to PCCP, Dr. Anna Simpson, Executive Editor, PCCP

  • Session I (Session Chair: Prof. E. D. Jemmis, IISc Bangalore)

  • 3:15 PM-3:55 PM: From Single Molecules to Single Cells: Watching the Dynamics of Protein-Nucleic acid Complexes

    Prof. David Rueda, Chair, PCCP, Imperial College London

  • 3:55 PM-4:25 PM: Enhanced Atomic Ordering Leads to Ultra-High Thermoelectric Performance

    Prof. Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR Bangalore

  • 4:25 PM-4:30 PM: Break


  • Session II (Session Chair: Prof. Naresh Patwari, IIT Bombay)

  • 4:30 PM-5:00 PM: IR photon as structural probe in mass spectrometry: Watching peptide aggegrates grow

    Prof. Anouk Rijs, Deputy Chair, PCCP, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Electrochemical Neutralization Energy: Concepts to Devices

    Prof. Muhammed Musthafa, IISER Pune

  • 5:30 PM-5:40 PM: Oral Presentation by a Poster Presentation Winner-I

  • May 5, 2021 Wednesday, 03.00PM-5.30PM IST/10.30 AM-1.15 PM GMT


  • 3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Welcome Address Dr. Aparna Ganguly, Royal Society of Chemistry

  • Session III (Session Chair: Prof. Prabal K Maiti, IISc Bangalore)

  • 3:00 PM-3:30 PM: How trap-states modulate the photophysics in semiconductor quantum dots

    Prof. K. George Thomas, IISER Thiruvananthapuram

  • 3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Mechanism of photoprotection in eumelanin - role of heterogeneity

    Prof. Debashree Ghosh, IACS Kolkata

  • 4:00 PM-4:10 PM: Oral Presentation by a Poster Presentation Winner-II
  • 4:10 PM-4:15 PM: Break


  • Session IV (Session Chair: Prof. Sourav Pal, IISER Kolkata)

  • 4:15 PM-4:45 PM: Charge Carrier Dynamics in Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Prof. Anunay Samanta, , University of Hyderabad

  • 4:45 PM-5:15 PM: All-metal aromaticity and Hydrogen Storage

    Prof. Pratim Chattaraj, IIT Kharagpur

  • 5:15 PM-5:25 PM: Oral Presentation by a Poster Presentation Winner-III
  • 5:25 PM-5:30 PM: Vote of Thanks