Dr. Avijit Goswami

Dr. Goswami completed his M.Sc. in Chemistry (specializing in organic chemistry) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2000. After working for a year as a research assistant in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, he moved to Heidelberg University, Germany, to pursue doctoral studies. In 2005, he received his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Walter Siebert. His doctoral thesis focused on transition metal-mediated cyclotrimerization reactions of various borylacetylenes and amino acetylenes. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Guenter Helmchen at Heidelberg University, working on iridium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic animation and alkylation reactions. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious JSPS fellowship for postdoctoral study at Kanagawa University, Japan under the guidance of Professor Sentaro Okamoto. Before joining IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry in December 2009, he worked with Professor Kyoko Nozaki at The University of Tokyo in the direction of design and synthesizing new cobalt-based chiral salen catalyst for co-polymerization of propylene oxide with carbon dioxide, to prepare biodegradable polycarbonate.