Dr. Sakya Singha Sen Awarded INSA Young Scientist Medal

Dr. Sakya Singha Sen, a Senior Scientist from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune has been awarded the ‘INSA Young Scientist Medal 2018’ by THE Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi.

Dr. Sen completed his M.Sc. (Chemistry) from the Indian Institute Technology, Kharagpur in 2006. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Go¨ttingen, Germany in 2010. Later, he received Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship and joined the laboratory of Prof. Holger Braunschweig at the University of Wu¨rzburg, Germany.

Dr. Sen’s research group works on topics such as synthesis of low oxidation state and low coordination number, s- and p-block compounds and its application into small molecule activation as well as in catalysis.

Dr. Sen has published more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He has been guiding six students for Ph.D. He is the recipient of CSIR-Young Scientist award in chemical sciences in 2017 and has been selected as a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2017-2020).

The award will be presented to Dr. Sen in the Anniversary General Meeting of the Academy to be held in December this year.