• Gender: Female
• Age: 32
• Designation: Fresh/Entry Level
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 8.7 Year(s)

Education

M.Sc. (Chemistry) From National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, in 2016 with CGPA: 7.4/10

H.S.C.(C.H.S.E) From J.K.B.K. Junior Govt. College, Cuttack in 2011 with 60%

S.S.C. (B.S.E– State Board) From Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Cuttack in 2009 with 85%

Skill Sets

Basic algorithm development with coding experience in C and MATLAB.
Have experience with GAUSSIAN09 package and ChemDraw Professional.
Proficient at understanding and representing data/observation in packages like Origin and Excel.
Skilled at communicating scientific work in the form of presentation, posters and written report.
Competent at using literature search to obtain research papers for implementing their findings and methods.

Laboratory Skills
Experience in working with inorganic syntheisis, cyclic voltametry, automated column chromotography, microwave reactors, NMR, IR, UV (solid and liquid), XPS, BET, SEM and XRD.

Work Experience

Fresh/Entry Level

Project/internship   
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Final Year Dissertation
Visible light driven efficient photocatalytic degradation of congo red dye catalyzed by hierarchical CuS-Bi2CuxW1-xO6-2x nanocomposite system
Guide: Prof. B.G. Mishra
Contributed towards experimental setup of the synthesis of CuS-Bi2CuxW1-xO6-2x nanocomposite and Bi2WO6 nanomaterial
Also, contributed towards the characterisation studies using XRD, FTIR, FESEM , liquid UV 
The findings has been discussed in a peer reviewed article published in the ‘RSC Advances (Vol. 42)’. (Details of publication mentioned later)

May 2015 – July 2015
Internship –  Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Madras
Pt/ZrO2-C Catalyst for Electrochemical Methanol Oxidation
Guide: Prof. G. Rangarao
Synthesised composite electrocatalyst that showed a higher ‘Methanol oxidation reaction activity’ when compared with Pt/C catalyst. 
Surface area of the synthesised products were carried out in BET, which was followed by  CYCLIC VOLTAMETRY study using the characteristics properties determined using FT/ IR, UV, PXRD & SEM.

May 2014 – July 2014
Internship –  Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati
Optoelectronic Properties of Pyridine-pyrrole based Donor-acceptor Oligomers: A DFT Study
Guide: Prof. A. N. Panda
Ground-state geometries and optical properties of pyridine-pyrrole based donor-acceptor type conjugated polymers were investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) and CAM-B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) levels, as implemented in GAUSSIAN 09 package.
The stability of the compounds were compared by analysing the band gap approximated from the difference between HOMO and LUMO energies as well as the excitation energies calculated from the time-dependent DFT (TDDFT).

May 2013 – July 2013
Internship –  Dept. of Chemistry, NIT Rourkela 
Polyphosphoric acid–zirconia pillared clay composite catalytic system for efficient multicomponent one pot synthesis of tetrahydropyridines under environmentally benign conditions
Guide: Prof. B.G. Mishra
Different clay based nanoporous materials were synthesised by performing various surface and structural modifications. The synthesized clay materials are characterized by XRD, FTIR, UV-VIS, TGA, FESEM. Their catalytic activities are evaluated for the synthesis of structurally diverse biological important molecules under mild conditions.
The findings has been discussed in a peer reviewed article published in the ‘Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (Vol. 387)’. (Details of publication mentioned later)

Extra-curricular Activities
2012 – 2015
AASRITE (Member) - AASRA 
Have been a proud Aasrite, i.e. an active member of AASRA NIT Rourkela, which is a social service club, working for the upliftment of poor and neglected sections of society.
Work involved taking regular evening classes and conducting periodic assessment tests to monitor every child’s progress in a batch of 40 students.
Students overall development was ensured by including extra-curricular activities like sketching, dancing, and sports along with their regular course work.

2013 – 2014
General Secretary - C.V. Raman Hall Of Residence 
Elected among 900 students of C.V.R Hall of Residence, NIT Rourkela to serve as the General Secretary. 
Organised activities like Orientation for fresher, Hall Day, Garden Fest, Foundation Day and Farewell Functions.
With the help of authorities and under-secretaries, started a departmental store inside the hall to cater the needs of the hall residents. 

2012 – 2014
Core Coordinator – Nitrutsav (Annual Institute Fest)
Have been the core coordinator of Nitrutsav for three consecutive years which kept me actively involved in the conduction, management and promotion of the event
Event coordinator of “RAGA” in Nitrutsav 2k13

Journal Publications  
Bhoi, Y. P., Pradhan, S. R., Behera, C., and Mishra, B. G. (2016). “Visible light driven efficient photocatalytic degradation of congo red dye catalyzed by hierarchical CuS-Bi2CuxW1-xO6-2x nanocomposite system”, RSC Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry, Vol. 42 (6), Pp. 35589 - 35601 
(http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/ra#!issueid=ra006042&type=current)

Kar, P., Mishra, B. G., and Pradhan, S. R. (2014). “Polyphosphoric acid–zirconia pillared clay composite catalytic system for efficient multicomponent one pot synthesis of tetrahydropyridines under environmentally benign conditions”, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, Elsevier, Vol. 387, Pp. 103  - 111 

Fellowship
IITM Summer Fellowship Programme 2015 (Department of Chemistry).
Category – A TDSQT scholarship conducted by Dharitri (Local Newspaper) (2011).

Achievements
Participated ACBIR'14 (National Conference) conducted by Department of Chemistry, NIT Rourkela (2014). 

Won the third prize in collage making intra hall competition (2013).

Selected for the seventh advanced training camp in Chemistry Conducted by Odisha Chemistry Society.

Bagged first prize at Inter School Science Exhibition conducted by Saraswatisishu Vidya Mandir (2006).

Future Goals

Growth