Work Experience

October 2023 - till now

Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Limerick

June 2022 – September 2023

SFI-IRC Pathway Research Group Leader at the Department of Chem. Sci., University of Limerick

January 2019 – May 2022

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow with Prof Roland A. Fischer at Technical University of Munich

January 2017 – December 2019

Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof Mike Zaworotko at University of Limerick

Third-level Education

August 2011 – November 2016

PhD student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune with Prof Sujit K. Ghosh

2009 – 2011

2006 – 2009

Awards

RSC Researcher Collaborations Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry

PI at the SSPC (the Synthesis and Solid-State Pharmaceutical Centre), Science Foundation Ireland.

RSC Research Bursary Reviewer (for a) RSC Research Fund; b) the RSC Researcher Development Grant).

President’s Research Excellence and Impact Award 2022 from the University of Limerick

RSC Research Fund grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Researcher Development Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry

SFI-IRC Pathway Award from the Science Foundation Ireland

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship from the

European Commission

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Irish Research Council

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation, Germany

 Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Humboldt foundation, Germany

SERB-ITS Travel Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board, India

Summer Research Fellowship from JNCASR, India

Memberships

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

International Adsorption Society (IAS)

Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)

American Chemical Society (ACS)

SSPC, The Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre

IChemE: Institution of Chemical Engineers

Marie Curie Alumni Association

Alexander von Humboldt Association of Ireland

Editorial and peer reviewer services

Web of Science ResearcherID

Peer-review contributions (as of 2024-03-27): 74. Breakup: Chem (1); JACS (2); Chem. Soc. Rev. (1); Chem. Sci. (1); Nat Commun. (3); Nat Synthesis (1); Chem. Eur. J. (4); CrystEngComm (6); Cryst. Growth Des. (18); ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (3); Nanomaterials (11); Catalysts (4); Crystals (2); Dalton Trans. (5); Chemistry (5); Applied Sciences (1); Molecules (1); RSC Adv. (1); Sensors (1); Energies (1), Inorg. Chem. Front. (2), Materials (1); ACS Cent. Sci. (1); ACS Omega (1); Adv. Sci. (1); Chem. Mater. (1); Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. (1).

Peer reviewer for:

A) Irish Research Council Grants

B) RSC Researcher Grants and Research Fund Peer Review Group

C) Horizon EU programmes

Guest Editor for ChemPlusChem (Special Collection on the Applications of Porous Materials)

Short Bio

Born in the city of joy (aka, Calcutta) in 1988, Mr Soumya Mukherjee read the Chemistry (Honours) Bachelor's degree at the University of Calcutta. A Master's degree with specialisation in organic chemistry followed at the same university. Moving ca. 1,800 km from the country's east to the western ghats of Pune, he then relocated to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India in 2011, to study the chemistry of porous solids. Under the tutelage of Prof Sujit K. Ghosh, this five and half years' doctoral dissertation completed in November 2016, earning him a PhD degree in mid-2017. A 3-year postdoctoral research (2017 Jan – 2019 Dec) at the Bernal Institute, University of Limerick (UL) followed with Prof Mike Zaworotko, a thought leader in the field of crystal engineering. As an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow, Soumya next moved to Prof Roland A. Fischer's AMC chair at the Technical University of Munich. During 2019-2021, The Royal Society of Chemistry and the IUPAC admitted Soumya as an MRSC (August 2019) and an affiliate member (May 2021), respectively. In 2021, he was awarded: A) the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) from the European Commission, under the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020; B) Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Irish Research Council. Regardless, thanks to an SFI-IRC Pathway Grant from the Science Foundation Ireland, Soumya started as a Research Group Leader from June 2022 at the Department of Chemical Sciences, UL. With a bunch of young minds at UL and several cross-functional collaborations, the team MukherjeeGroup is making headways into the development of energy-efficient nanoporous adsorbents (particularly those fostering environmental sustainability).

Soumya is passionate regarding outreach activities and in his free time, enjoys a) exploring Ireland's rugged coastline; b) pretending that he is a master chef, despite evidence to the contrary.

Teaching

Lectures to undergraduates/postgraduates at UL:

• Module CH4304 (Spring Semester 1, 2023/4): Analytical Chemistry 2

• Module CH4303 (Autumn Semester 1, 2023/4): Analytical Chemistry 1

• Module CH4017 (Autumn Semester 1, 2022/3): Chemical Nanotechnology

• Module CH4103 (Autumn Semester 1, 2022/3): Organic Chemistry 2

• Module CH4102 (Spring Semester 2, 2021/2): Organic Chemistry 1

• Module CH6002 (Spring Semester 2, 2018/9): Research Challenges in Materials Science

• Module CH4017 (Spring Semester 2, 2017/8): Chemical Nanotechnology

Lectures to undergraduates/postgraduates at TU Munich:

• Module CH3008a (Spring semester 2020/21): Hybrid Materials (HYMAT) − Structure-Function-Relationships

• Module CH3008a (Spring semester 2021/22): Hybrid Materials (HYMAT) − Structure-Function-Relationships

• Module LV0712 (Fall semester 2020/21): Inorganic Chemical Internship-2 for chemists

• Module CH4106 (Fall semester 2021/22): Inorganic Chemical Internship-2 for chemists

Lectures to undergraduates/postgraduates at IISER Pune:

• Module CHM112 (Spring Semester, 2011/12): Chemistry Lab II

• Module CHM322 (Spring Semester, 2013/14): Transition Metal Chemistry

• Module CHM360 (Spring Semester, 2012/13): Advanced Inorganic Chemistry