Dr. Abhisek Saha, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, at Tufanganj College, Cooch Behar, India. The career of Dr. Abhisek Saha spans over twenty-three years of academic, Research, and administrative responsibilities at various colleges, school, and universities. Dr. Saha graduated from the University of North Bengal, India, and obtained a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the same university. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Chemistry, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, WB, India-736101. He qualified for the prestigious GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers) examination in 2001 and CSIR-UGC-NET on Chemical Science in 2002. Dr. Saha acted as a SPOC in SWAYEM-NPTEL, India since 2019 and faculty organizer of Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay, India. He acts as an Academic counselor (UG level) at Netaji Subhas Open University, India from 2015 to till date.
Dr. Saha’s research interests are focused primarily on single crystal X-ray Diffraction, Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of transition metal Complexes. He is experienced in the multi-step synthesis of organic compounds as well as organometallic compounds and their separation/purification by chromatographic techniques. Possess knowledge for interpreting data from IR, NMR, UV-vis and FAB-mass spectra. Well-versed in solving structures using single crystal X-ray diffraction and possess knowledge of various softwares related to crystal structure solutions and representations (SHELXS, SHELXTL-PLUS, DIAMOND etc.). IR and UV-vis spectrophotometers, electro chemistry system (PAR-VarsastatTM II cyclic voltametry and coulometry), HPLC, GC. He worked as a Principal Investigator in the UGC-sponsored project on ‘Application of platinum group metal complex to achieve C-H activation’ in 2010-2012. The research work was the regioselective or regiospecific C(aryl)-H bond activation using cyclometallation reaction. Palladium(II), Platinum(II), Ruthenium(II), Rhodium(I) and Iridium(1) were used for C(aryl)-H bond activation. The cyclometallates were isolated and characterized. Single crystal X-ray crystallography has been used extensively for structure elucidation of the cyclometallates. The reactivity of the cyclometallates was also studied. Dr. Saha changed his research focus to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Next Generation Sequencing, DNA Sequence Analysis, Genome Sequencing, Comparative Genomics, DNA Analysis, DNA Sequence Alignment, and Sanger Sequencing.
Dr. Saha published research papers (Twenty-four) in reputed National and International journals, edited book (Two), edited chapter in books (seven) published by National and International (Wiley-Scrivener, Springer Publication) publishers. Dr. Saha presented his research papers in many National and International seminars, conferences and symposia in India and abroad (Indonesia, Nepal). He also acted as Chairman, Co-Chairman, Rapporteur in technical sessions of many National and International seminar held in India and abroad.
Dr. Saha also renders his service as an editorial panel of National and International Journals. He is an associate editor of ‘International Journal of Bio-Pharma Research journal’ (ISSN: 2234-8638) and ‘Anals of Pharma Research journal’ (ISSN: 2347-1956). He acts an executive editor of ‘International Journal of Current Science Research and Review’ (ISSN: 2581-8341) and an editor of ‘Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry (ISSN: 0974-4150; Online, ISSN: 0974-4169;Print). Dr. Saha is also a member of reviewer panel of ‘International Journal of Chemical and Life Sciences’ (ISSN: 2287-6898). He also acts as an editorial board member of ‘International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry (Online ISSN:2582-7723) and ‘Agricultural and Biological Research’ (ISSN:0970-1907). Dr. Saha published patent from India and UK. The patents are Design patent (Design number- 6319356) from Intellectual Property Office, UK on Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer Analyzer on 1st November, 2023.
Dr. Saha was awarded National Scholarship of HRD, Govt. of India for his ranking in Higher Secondary Examinations conducted by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. DPI, Govt. of West Bengal awarded him with Scholarship in 1997 for his performance at UG level. The Air India, Govt. of India has awarded him the prestigious BOLT Award for his teaching efficiency in 2007. Dr. Saha was awarded the ‘Excellent Teacher Award’ on his overall contribution to the field of Chemistry at the International Conference on Sustainable Development Initiatives in South East Asia held in Nepal in 2022.