Name : Abhijit Sarkar

Nick Name : Tutul

Marital Status : Married with one daughter, Aparna, one son, Satyajit and wife, Sucharita.

Nationality : Indian

Permanent address :

G/4, Tagore Hill Road Morabadi, Ranchi 834 008, Bihar, INDIA.
Phone :91-651-2542629

Present appointment :

"Associate Scientist" at Michigan Molecular Institute, Midland, Michigan 48640, USA.

Previous appointments :

(a) "Senior Research Associate " at Michigan Molecular Institute, Midland, Michigan 48640, USA.

(a) "Postdoctoral Research Associate " at Institute Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97402.

(b) "Research Associate(faculty)" at Institute for Chemical Reaction Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-77.

(c) "JSPS Post Doctoral Fellow" at The Institute for Chemical Reaction Science Tohoku University, Japan Research Area : Preparation of functional Polymers for Non Linear Optical(NLO) materials. March 1995 to March 1997.

(d) "NSTB Post Doctoral Fellow" in The project"Synthesis,characterisation and application of novel functional polymers" in the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore. February 1994 to February 1995.

(e) "Research Officer" in R&D Group (Polymer Division), Polyolefins Industries Limited(NOCIL), Thane, India. September 1993 to February 1994.

Academic qualifications :

1. Doctoral(Ph.D.) : (Organic Chemistry)December 1993

Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay 400 076, INDIA.

Thesis on "Synthesis and Polymerisation of Heteroaryl Functional Diacetylenes."

2. Postgraduation(M.Sc.) (Organic Chemistry)1986

Ranchi University, Ranchi 834 008, Bihar, INDIA. First Division

3. Graduation(B.Sc.) (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) 1984

St. Xavier's College, (Ranchi University) Ranchi 834 001, Bihar, INDIA. First Division

Membership in academic bodies :

1. Member of the American Chemical Society.

1. Member of Chemical Society of Japan.

2. Member of Polymer Society of Japan.

Scholarships held :

1. Junior Research Fellowship(Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) From July 20, 1987 to September 30, 1988.

2. Junior Research Fellowship(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India) From October 1988 to October 1990.

3. Senior Research Fellowship(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India) From November 1990 to October 1993.

4. NSTB postdoctoral award (National Scince and Technology Board, Singapore) From March 1994 to February 1995.

5. JSPS postdoctoral award (Japan Society of Promotion of Science, Japan) From March 1995 to March 1997.

Hobbies :

1. Photography

2. Reading detective novels.

3. History of places.