College of Hyderabad professor wins Customer’s award 2020

Hyderabad: Professor Anunay Samanta from the College of Chemistry on the College of Hyderabad (UoH) has been chosen for the celebrated Customer’s Award, 2020 for Analysis in Bodily Sciences.

The Award, which comes with a quotation and a money prize, shall be offered by the President of India because the Customer of the Central Universities within the Rashtrapati Bhawan at a later date.

The award is available in recognition of Prof Samanta’s work on using ultrafast and single-molecule spectroscopic methods, acknowledged a UoH launch on Thursday.

The President of India, in his capability as a Customer of the Central Universities, yearly confers Customer’s Awards to advertise wholesome competitors amongst Central Universities and inspire them to undertake greatest practices from world wide in pursuit of excellence.

Complimenting Prof Samanta on being chosen for the celebrated award, UoH vice chancellor Prof Arun Agarwal stated, “This can be a reflection of the high-quality analysis being carried out on the college and this is able to inspire others to observe”.

Prof Samanta has been on the College of Chemistry since January 1990. His present analysis focuses on ultrafast dynamics and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of the perovskite nanocrystals and deep eutectic solvents. His pioneering analysis work has resulted within the publication of greater than 190 papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals.

An elected Fellow of all three Nationwide Science Academies of India, he’s additionally recipient of many nationwide and worldwide awards, which embody the J.C. Bose Nationwide Fellowship (DST, 2010 – 2024), Acharya J.C. Ghosh Memorial Award (Indian Chemical Society, 2019), India Quotation Award (Thomson Reuters, 2012), Raman-Mizushima Lecture Award (DST-JSPS, 2014), APA Award (Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Affiliation, 2018), Silver Medal (Chemical Analysis Society of India, 2015), and Prof. Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture Award (INSA, 2017).

He’s additionally serving because the Nationwide Coordinator of the UGC College Analysis Promotion Schemes since 2013 and because the Editor (Chemistry) of the Proceedings of the Indian Nationwide Science Academy since 2015.