He holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in the field of materials chemistry. He has 45 publications in peer review journals to his credit. He completed Master and PhD from IIT Delhi. The thesis work was based on studies of biologically active phosphates and related compounds. His first postdoctoral work at Colorado State University, USA (2007-2008) was on synthesis of industrially important ceramics with microwave mediated green chemistry route. Later on, he moved to Pennsylvania State University, USA (2008-2010) where he worked on protein adsorption on surface modified particles. He was also a Raman Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers State University, USA (2016-2017) where he worked on Hydrothermal Vapour Phase Synthesis (HVS) of ceramics. He has received R.C Tripathy Young scientist award in 2015 from Orissa Chemical Society. His current research interest is focused on designing nano-materials for photocatalysis and electrocatalysis study.