· Education: M.Sc. (Gold Medal) in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology & Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from Tezpur University, India.
· Experience: DBT Research Associate, Institutional Post-Doctoral Fellow (IIT Guwahati), Assistant Professor (Ethiopia), Guest Faculty (multiple universities).
Current: Scientist at Baba Kinaram Research Foundation, Mau.
· Accolades: IASc-INSA-NASI summer research fellowship, CSIR-NET and GATE qualified, DBT- fellowships, Canadian Commonwealth Visting Research Fellowship (University of Guelph, Canada), recipient of DST-UKIERI project funding and post-doctoral visiting research fellowship (University College London, England), Young Researcher Awards, multiple journals’ editorial board membership, reviewer, several high-impact, well-cited publications in the realms of nanobiotechnology, polymer nanocomposites, nanomedicine, enzyme-biotechnology, silk biomaterial, etc.
Research thrust: nanomaterials and biopolymeric nanocomposites for biomedical and allied applications, enzyme technology, silk based bionanomaterials, tissue engineering and targeted therapeutics delivery.
· Beyond research: Swimming, gym, travel, cooking, YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@dr.rockkon9211), occasional poetry, story-scribbling, and painting.
Well done!
