PhD Students
​​Patil Snehal Tukaram completed her BSc from Padmbhushan
Dr. Vasantraodada Patil College, Tasgaon, in 2019 under Shivaji University, Kolhapur, and her MSc from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, in 2021. She joined the PhD in January 2025 to pursue her doctoral studies. Beyond this, She loves playing cricket.
Research Interest: Photoredox-catalyzed organic synthesis.
E-mail: patil.snehal@students.iiserpune.ac.in
​​Omkar Atugade completed his BSc from Sadguru Gadage Maharaj College in 2022, Karad, and his MSc from Sadguru Gadage Maharaj College in 2024, Karad. He joined the PhD in January 2025 to pursue his doctoral studies. Beyond this, he loves swimming and playing Cricket.
Research Interest: Photoredox-catalyzed organic synthesis.
E-mail: omkar.atugade@students.iiserpune.ac.in
​​Hrishik Mukherjee completed his BSc from St.Xaviers College in 2022, Mumbai and his MSc from IIT Bhubaneshwar in 2024. He joined the PhD in August 2024 to pursue his doctoral studies. Beyond this he loves drawing and playing badminton.
Research Interest: Photoredox catalyzed organic synthesis.
E-mail: hrishik.mukherjee@students.iiserpune.ac.in
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Shubham Shukla completed his B.Sc. from B. N. Bandodkar College of Science in 2017, and his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from J. V. M. Mehta College in 2019. He joined our group in January 2024 to pursue his doctoral studies. Beyond this, he loves playing chess, table tennis.
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Research Interest: Multi-step Synthesis and C-H Functionalization under visible-light Photocatalysis.
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Mohit B S Khandeparkar completed his B.Sc. from PES College of Arts and Science, Ponda Goa in 2020, and his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the School of Chemical Sciences, Goa University in 2022. He joined our group in January 2024 to pursue his doctoral studies. Beyond this, he loves playing chess, table tennis, and acting.
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Research Interest: C-H Functionalization under visible-light Photocatalysis.
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Kondhare Ganesh Hanumant completed his B.Sc. from Shri Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Barshi in 2019 under Solapur University and his M.Sc. in Chemistry from National Institute Of Technology (NIT), Sikkim in 2021. He joined our group in August 2023 to pursue his doctoral studies. Beyond this, he loves to play table tennis.
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Research Interest: Visible-light-promoted reaction of diazo compounds
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Chhabi Pal completed her B.Sc. from Vidyasagar University in 2014 and her M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from Vidyasagar University in 2017. She joined our group in August 2023 to pursue her doctoral studies. Beyond this, she loves to play cricket and badminton.
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Research Interest: Visible-light-promoted reaction of diazo compounds
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Saswata Pattanaik completed her B.Sc. from Ramadevi Womens Autonomous College (Utkal University) in 2017 and her M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, in 2020. She joined our group in January 2023 to pursue her doctoral studies.
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Research Interest: Visible-light-promoted organic synthesis
E-mail: saswata.pattanaik@students.iiserpune.ac.in
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Sidharth Shankar Pathak completed his B.Sc. from N.N. College Singhara Vaishali (Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur) in 2018 and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from University of Allahabad (Central University) in 2020. He joined our group in August 2022 to pursue his doctoral studies. Apart from research, he loves to play cricket.
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Research Interest: Visible-light promoted organic synthesis
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Sachin Madhukar Thorat completed his B.Sc. from New Arts Commerce and Science College Parner in 2006 and his M.Sc. in Drug Chemistry from Ahmednagar College (Pune University) in 2008. During last year he was selected in a campus interview by Advinus Therapeutics, Pune, and worked in Drug discovery from 2008 to 2017. Later he moved to BASF crop protection discovery in 2017 and working as Associate research scientist-I till date. In BASF he got an opportunity for higher education to Pursue his PhD degree. So he joined in 2021 in our group to pursue his doctoral studies as an External PhD student
Research Interest: Visible light mediated organic transformations
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Onkar Sunil Bankar completed his B.Sc from ASC college Rahuri in 2015 and M.Sc from Ahmednagar college, Ahmednagar (Pune University) in 2017. He joined our group in January 2020 to pursue his doctoral studies. Beyond academics, he is fond of playing cricket, vollyball and also keep interest in swimming.
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Research Interest: Transition-metal-catalyzed carbene transfer reactions
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Kajal Bibhishan Meher completed her B.Sc from S.G.R.G. Shinde Mahavidhyalaya in 2016 and M.Sc in Organic Chemistry from Dr. Babasaheb Aambedkar Marathavada University, Aurangabad in 2018. She joined our group in August 2019 to pursue her doctoral studies. Beyond academics, she loves painting.
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Research Interest: Transition-metal-catalyzed carbene transfer reactions
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Mousumi Behera completed her B.Sc from Ramadevi Women's Auto. College (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha) in 2017 and M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Madras, Tamilnadu in 2019. She joined our group in August 2019 to pursue her doctoral studies.
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Research Interest: Photoredox catalyzed organic synthesis
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Abhijeet Shamrao Sabale completed his B.Sc (in 2014) and M.Sc (in 2016) from YC Institute of Science Satara (Shivaji University), Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He joined our group in May 2019 to pursue his doctoral studies.
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Research Interest: Asymmetric organocatalysis merging with photocatalysis
Project Students
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Ajit Kumar Sahu completed his B.Sc from Anchal College, Padampur, Odisha under Sambalpur University in 2021 and Pursuing his M.Sc at IISER Pune (2022-2024). He joined our group in March 2023 for master's thesis. Beyond academics, he plays badminton, cricket and also loves travelling.
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Research Interest: Electrochemical C-H Functionalization.