Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Welcome to Department of Chemistry

The department is actively engaged in cutting-edge research in emerging areas like Biomaterials, Biosensors, Catalysis, Drug Delivery, Materials, Organometallic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Supramolecular Syntheses, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and Theoretical Chemistry. The research activities at the department are supported by large number of sponsored research projects and state-of-the-art research facilities that exist at the department and institute levels. The department is visited by a large number of experts and short-term students from India and abroad. Learn more about the research activities of the department by visiting links to Research and individual "Faculty" pages.

The department is presently offering M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. M.Sc. can be upgraded to Ph.D. programme. Learn more about the academic programs of the department by visiting the link to "Programme" provided on the top.

Our Achievements

  1. Dr. Indranil Chaterjee have received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, 2022.
  2. Dr. Tharamani C.N. received the renewed research stay Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay of two months as visiting faculty (June-July 2022) for a project entitled” Development of high capacity sodium-sulfur batteries in aqueous electrolytes “ and visited Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany,
  3. Dr. Tharamani C.N. has received the Bronze medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2022.
  4. Dr. Tharamani C.N. has been admitted as a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (London, UK) 2022.
  5. Dr. Debaprasad Mandal conferred with Bronze Medal of Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (CRS) March 2022
  6. Akansha Chaturvedi, Divyani Gupta and Dr. Tharamani C.N. received first prize (cash prize of Rs. 1.25 lakhs) at the Energy Hackathon Contest organized by IIT Madras, Jan 2023
  7. Kalpana Garg, Mukesh Kumar and Dr. Tharamani C.N. received first prize (cash prize of Rs. 50,000) at the Energy Hackathon Contest organized by IIT Madras, Jan 2023
  8. Mukesh Kumar and Dr. Tharamani C.N. received a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh at the Tata Steel’s flagship open innovation event MaterialNEXT 3.0 organised by Tata Steel, June 2022
  9. Divyani Gupta received best oral presentation award at the ChemCatCon held at IIT Gandhinagar, 2022
  10. Vishal Kumar received best poster award at TCB (Theoretical Chemistry and Biology) Symposium organised by IISER Mohali, Oct 2022
  11. Gautam Kumar received best poster award at the The 29th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-29) organised by IISER Mohali, 2022
  12. Arnab Chowdhury received 3rd prize in poster presentation at Pharmacon 2022 held at NIPER, Mohali
  13. Saurav Chatterjee received best poster award at the CRIKC Symposium 2022 held at NIPER, Mohali
  14. Debarshi Saha received best poster award at the FICS-2022: International conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences held at IIT Guwahati
  15. Irshad Maajid Taily received best poster award at Chemical Science symposium 2022: Sustainable synthesis and catalysis
  16. Priyank Kumar Sharma received best poster award at CRIKC Symposium 2022 Recent advances in bioorgainc and medicinal chemistry (RABMC-2022) held at NIPER, Mohali
  17. Priyank Kumar Sharma received best poster award at 2nd National conference on Contemporary Facets in Organic Synthesis (CFOS-2022) held at IIT Roorkee
  18. Biprajit Paul received best poster award at CRIKC Symposium 2022 Recent advances in bioorgainc and medicinal chemistry (RABMC-2022) held at NIPER, Mohali

Courses Offered

See the breakdown of various courses offered respectively in below programmes