Jitendra K. Bera

Jitendra K. Bera Professor, IIT Kanpur, India

Webpage: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~jbera/ Bera received his M. Sc. from the University of Kalyani in 1993 and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science in 1999. After a couple of postdoctoral stints at Purdue University and at Texas A&M University, he joined the faculty at IIT Kanpur in 2003 where he is presently a Professor. He is the recipient of the Ramanna fellowship and the SwarnaJayanti fellowship from DST, India, and has received the CRSI bronze medal for the year 2011. Bera's research interests span synthetic, structural and mechanistic organometallic chemistry. Recent efforts are directed toward bifunctional activation of small and abundant molecules and their catalytic transformations to useful and value-added chemicals. Dr. Jitendra K. Bera Academic Background May -June 2014   Visiting Professor, University Paul Sabatier, France Jan - Feb 2014     Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Japan 2012 - present        Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur 2008 - 2011           Associate Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur 2003 - 2007           Assistant Professor of Chemistry, IIT-Kanpur 2000 -2003          Post-doc, Texas A&M University, USA. 1999 - 2000          Post-doc, Purdue University, USA. 1999                       Ph D, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. 1993                       M. Sc. Kalyani University             1990                       B. Sc. Vidyasagar University Research Interest Bimetallic Synergism Small Molecule Activation Metal-Ligand Cooperativity N-Heterocyclic Carbene Green Chemistry      Professional Societies Membership and Activities Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT Kanpur, 2014-2016 Member, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Council, 2014-2017 Member, National Organizing Committee (NOC) -MTIC, 2014 Member of the Editorial Board of  Resonance -Journal of Science Education Member of the International Advisory Board of the XXV ICOMC (Lisbon, 2012) Member of the International Advisory Board of the XXVI ICOMC (Sapporo, Japan, 2014) Life Member, Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore (1999 )  Fellowships and Awards Agency Award/Fellowship Year IIT Kanpur Satish Chandra Agarwal Chair 2015-2017 National Academy of Sciences FNASc 2014 Indian Academy of Sciences. FASc 2014 Chemical Research Society of India Bronze medal 2012 Department of Science and Technology, India Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2008 Department of Science and Technology, India Ramanna Fellowship 2007 Ten Recent Publications (1) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6168. (2) Organometallics 2015, 34, 0000. (3) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014,136, 13987. (4)  Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 16537. (5)  Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 6542. (6) Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 1444. (7) Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9764. (8) Organometallics 2013, 32, 4306. (9) Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 1432. (10)  Organometallics 2013, 32, 340. ///////////