Kushal SenGuptaDr. Kushal Sengupta is currently an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellow at Max Planck institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Before winning the AvH fellowship award, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Departmet of Chemistry at Abhedananda College under Burdwan University in India (Aug 2020 - Mar 2021). Prior to this, he was a NIH postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, USA (Aug 2016 - Dec 2019). He carried out his doctoral studies at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, with a CSIR-UGC NET fellowship (2010-2016). He obtained his bachelor's and master's degree in Chemistry from Jadavpur University. His areas of research interests lie in the field of bioinorganic chemistry especially in oxygen and proton reduction, electrocatalysis, Alzheimer's disease, etc, and in field of biophysical chemistry especially in metal homeostasis in bacteria, protein purification, super-resolution fluorescence imaging, etc. He is the recipient of two prestigious international awards, SBIC travel grant (2015) and SNIC student bursary (2014) during his Ph.D. He has authored 26 research articles (till date) in reputed international journals and 2 books chapters and has presented several posters and talks in international and national conferences. He has been actively involved as a reviewer for several scientific publishing houses and has been a member of Society of Bioinorganic Chemistry for several years now. Read More Read Less