Sayani Chanda

• Basic Training in Synthetic Organic Lab, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata, West Bengal, 07/19, Performed Pd(0) catalyzed Heck- Matsuda reaction with alkene and aryl diazonium salt.
• Intern, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, 06/22 - 07/22, Towards the synthesis of synthetic lipids based on simple naphthaldehyde-based compounds.

• Basics of UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, 2020
• Cp-Co(III)-catalyzed C-7 Amination of Indoles via C-H activation, Department of Chemistry, IIT Mandi, 2021
• The basics of EPR, IIT Guwahati, India, 2022
• RSC-IISER Desktop Seminar with ChemComm, 2021
• Recent Advancement in Chemical sciences, Department of Chemistry, Ranaghat College, West Bengal, India, 2021
• National Webinar, Department of Chemistry, RMVCC, West Bengal, 2021

• Medicinal Chemistry
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• Drug discovery and delivery
• Immunotherapy
• Biochemistry (bioorganic and bioinorganic related topics)
• Material Sciences

• Got admitted to the University of Illinois at Chicago in Fall ’23. [2023]
• Secured All India Rank 233 among 14,473 aspirants across the country in the IIT-JAM examination and got admitted to IIT Guwahati for M.Sc. in Chemistry. [2021]
• Secured AIR- 515 among 16,687 aspirants in IIT-JAM, Chemistry ’20; got admitted to IIT Mandi. [2020]
• Ranked 7th in B.Sc. Chemistry in Jadavpur University, Kolkata. [2020]
• Got an ‘O’ (Outstanding) grade (SGPA 10) in 10 papers throughout B.Sc. [2017-20]
• Secured 103 out of 120 in the TOEFL examination. [2022]
• Secured All India Rank of 63 in the KVPY exam (written + interview) and awarded the KVPY fellowship for 5 years of higher studies up to pre-PhD. [by IISc, Bangalore, funded by DST, India].[2017-22]
• Got selected for 5 years BS-MS degree program by IISER- Thiruvananthapuram through the KVPY channel. [2018]
• Awarded Bigyani Kanya Medha Britti scholarship, by JBNSTS, Kolkata, for being among the top 50 girls (BKMB-36) appearing in this prestigious state-level talent search exam. [2017]
• Secured a rank of 41, in PUBDET-’17, by West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board and got selected to Presidency University for B.Sc. in Chemistry. [2017]
• Felicitated by the Teachers’ Association of the District for holding 2nd position in school in the secondary (10th) examination. Ranked 17th (probable) in the state among more than 1 million students

Subject matter expert, Chemistry in Chegg, an online doubt-solving platform., 10/21 - 12/21 Indian Classical Dance, learned Kathak for almost ten years.