Meet Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, the IISER Kolkata chemist who mentored India's Chemistry Olympiad team to its best-ever finish this July. He studied at the University of Burdwan for his bachelor's, then IIT Kanpur for his master's, before earning his PhD under Prof. Reginald Mitchell at the University of Victoria in Canada. He went on to postdoc with Prof. Ron Breslow at Columbia University and spent a year at Cambridge under Prof. Florian Hollfelder before joining IISER Kolkata as an Assistant Professor. Since then, he's picked up 4 Best Teacher Awards from IISER Kolkata's own student community, become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and earned an Honorary Membership of the American Chemical Society. This July, as Head Mentor, he guided India's 4-student team through the 58th IChO in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All 4 came home with gold. India tied for Rank 1 with China and Vietnam, its best result in 27 appearances at the competition. Mentor who spent 27 years building the platform his students needed just 5 days in Tashkent to stand on.

Meet Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, the IISER Kolkata chemist who mentored India's Chemistry Olympiad team to its best-ever finish this July. He studied at the University of Burdwan for his bachelor's, then IIT Kanpur for his master's, before earning his PhD under Prof. Reginald Mitchell at the University of Victoria in Canada. He went on to postdoc with Prof. Ron Breslow at Columbia University and spent a year at Cambridge under Prof. Florian Hollfelder before joining IISER Kolkata as an Assistant Professor. Since then, he's picked up 4 Best Teacher Awards from IISER Kolkata's own student community, become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and earned an Honorary Membership of the American Chemical Society. This July, as Head Mentor, he guided India's 4-student team through the 58th IChO in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All 4 came home with gold. India tied for Rank 1 with China and Vietnam, its best result in 27 appearances at the competition. Mentor who spent 27 years building the platform his students needed just 5 days in Tashkent to stand on.

Happy to share our latest work, now published in Nature! Ligand-enabled remote C–H activation converts abundant saturated fatty acids into desaturated lactones. rdcu.be/fqn7c lnkd.in/dCYs2CMR Thanks to @NandanNilekani Foundation, @ANRFIndia @iitbombay @dm_lab

Proud moment! Dr. Ayan Jati met German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier & Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl at the 2026 @AvHStiftung Annual Meeting. A wonderful event celebrating scientific excellence and international collaboration. Congrats, Ayan! 🌍✨ #AvH2026 #Humboldt

Excited to share our upcoming work on VL EnT catalysis for dearomative cycloaddition reaction in @angew_chem✨ Huge kudos to @Sayankumarjana @sujay_dewan @PramodR71308425 @LisaRoyChem Sanat, Biswajit @MajiGroupIISERK 🙏 We thank the support from @ANRFIndia @dcsiiserkol @iiserkol

Happy 😃to share that two of our recent works have been highlighted in Synfacts📷! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Congratulations to @jati_ayan @DamSuranjana @ Tuhin Suvra Khan @bm_iiserk Thank you @thiemechemistry for the highlight📷@iisserkolkata

An insightful talk titled as “Design and Development of tunable chiral bifunctional ligands for Regio- and Enantioselective C(sp²)-H activation” was delivered by Prof. Biplab Maji from IISER Kolkata on Day 1 of IINCM 2026, hosted by the Department of Chemistry, IISER Tirupati.

🎓A proud week for the Maji Research Group as Dr. Jana @Sayankumarjana, Dr. Maiti @MamataMaiti6, and Dr. Dey @PurusattamDey defended their PhD theses, and our PI @bm_iiserk was promoted to Professor. Double celebrations made our Christmas Eve truly special and joyful 🎄🎉