About Me
Priyadarsi De, Ph.D.
Professor
Polymer Research Centre
Centre for Advanced Functional Materials
DCS, IISER Kolkata
Academic Background:
October, 2018-present
Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
December, 2013-October, 2018
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
November, 2009-November, 2013
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
September, 2008–October, 2009
Distinguished Scientist, PhaseRx Pharmaceuticals, Seattle, WA, USA.
January, 2007–August, 2008 (Advisor: Professor Brent S Sumerlin)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.
March, 2002–December, 2006 (Advisor: Professor Rudolf Faust)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, UMASS Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
Ph. D. August, 1997–March, 2002 (PhD advisor: Professor D. N. Sathyanarayana)
Indian Institute of Science, Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Bangalore, India.
M. Sc. August, 1995–July, 1997
Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
B. Sc. August, 1992–July, 1995
Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Awards and Recognition:
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2024: Editorial Advisory Board Member: European Polymer Journal, Published by Elsevier, June 2024 - Present.
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2024: Elected as a fellow of Indian Academy of Science (IASc), Bangalore.
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2023: CRS Silver Medal Award from Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha, India.
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2023: Elected as a Member of the Executive Committee of Society of Polymer Science-India (SPSI).
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2023: Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (WAST).
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Life Member since 2023, Indian Photobiology Society, India.
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Life Member since 2023, Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha, India.
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Life Member since 2023, Chemical Biology Society, India.
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American Chemical Society recognized us as “Top 3% Highly Cited Authors 2019-2020 from India” in 2022.
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Polymer Chemistry (Published by Royal Society of Chemistry) Pioneering Investigator, 2021.
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Outstanding Reviewers for Polymer Chemistry in 2020, Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, Impact Factor: 5.342.
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Associate editor of Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry, Taylor & Francis Group, April, 2019 to Present.
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Editorial Advisory Board Member: Joint Editorial Advisory Board Member of Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters (American Chemical Society Publications), January 2017 to December 2020.
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Editorial Advisory Board Member: Polymer Chemistry, Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, September 2015 - Present
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Editorial Board Member: Austin Biomolecules, Published by Austin Publishing Group, June 2016 - Present.
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11th Foundation Polymer Award of the Prof. Sukumer Maiti Polymer Award Foundation, India for the year 2018.
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Kaushal Kishore Memorial Award of the Society of Polymer Science, India (SPSI) for the year 2018.
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Outstanding Reviewers for RSC Advances in 2017, Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, Impact Factor: 2.93.
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Outstanding Reviewers for Polymer Chemistry in 2016, Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, Impact Factor: 5.687.
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Reviewer for International Journals (More than 30 Journals): (1) Langmuir; (2) Polymer; (3) Chemistry of Materials; (4) Biomacromolecules; (5) Analytical Chemistry; (6) Polymer Chemistry; (7) Chemical Communications; (8) Macromolecules; (9) Carbohydrate Polymers; (10) ACS Applied Polymer Materials, etc.
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Member of the American Chemical Society.
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Member, The Society for Polymer Science, India.
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Visiting Scientist at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, May-July, 2017
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Visiting Scientist at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, May-July, 2014
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Visiting Scientist at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, May-July, 2012
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Visiting Scientist at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2002
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Vasudevamurthy-Soundararajan Prize (1999) at Indian Institute of Science, India