Souvik Roy

Experience

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  Arizona State University

  Sept 2008 - Sept 2013

  PhD student

  Adviser: Prof. Anne K. Jones- Developing di-iron mimics of [FeFe]-hydrogenase enzyme for catalytic hydrogen evolution- Designing functionalized artificial peptides with specific metal binding sites for preparing metallopeptides- Application of unnatural phosphine-amino acids in fabricating metallopeptides. - Probing the influence of redox-active ligands on the properties of di-iron/mono-iron catalysts for hydrogen evolution

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  CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

  Nov 2013 - Oct 2015

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Adviser: Dr. Vincent Artero- Molecular catalysts for homogeneous reduction of carbon dioxide- Ligand design to improve efficiency of transition metal catalysts- Studying mechanistic aspects of CO2 reduction by electrochemistry- Immobilization of molecular catalysts onto carbon nanomaterials to build 'molecular-electrodes' with high surface-area for catalytic proton and carbon dioxide reduction- Synthesis of iron and cobalt complexes for incorporating in proteins to build artificial metalloenzymes- Benchmarking electro- and photo-catalysts for proton and CO2 reduction Show less

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  Uppsala University

  Jan 2016 - Feb 2018

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Adviser: Prof. Sascha Ott- Developing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for catalytic applications- Conductive MOFs composed of redox active linkers- Integrating molecular catalysts into MOFs to build porous heterogeneous catalysts for hydrogen evolution and carbon dioxide reduction- Interfacing MOFs with electrodes for electro-catalytic applications

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  University of Cambridge

  Mar 2018 - Feb 2020

  Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (MSCA-IF)

  Developing hybrid molecular photocatalytic materials for sunlight driven CO2 reduction at the Reisner Lab

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  University of Lincoln

  Mar 2020 - now

  Senior Lecturer