Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India, Pin-769008.

Dr. Debayan Sarkar is presently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has completed his M.Sc with Organic Chemistry specialization from University of North Bengal (NBU) in the year 2005 followed by a Ph.D in Organic Synthesis from Indian Association For The Cultivation of Science (IACS) in the year 2011, Jadavpur Kolkata under the supervision of Prof. R. V.Venkateswaran. After that he traveled to carry out his post-doctoral studies at Stanford University (USA) under the mentorship of Prof. Barry M Trost. He has been recently deputed as a Visiting Senior Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University (Japan) under the mentorship of Prof. M. Yamaguchi (Dec 2015- March 2016). He has been recipient of prestigious awards like Inspire faculty award (2013), BRNS-DAE Young Scientist Award (2014), Indo-US Research Award(2012), DAAD Visiting Professor (2018). Recently he has been awarded with the ICMR International Fellowship Award 2019 for young biomedical scientists. Research interests include Dearomatisation reactions, Atom Economic couplings, and Complex total synthesis of natural products. Presently he is working with Prof. Burkhard Koenig, at University of Regensburg as an ICMR International Fellow and also as an Associate Professor at NIT Rourkela.