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Curriculum vitae : Shyamalava Mazumdar

EDUCATION:

Ph.D in Chemistry from TIFR, University of Mumbai, INDIA in 1990,

Title: 'Electronic and structural studies on model hemes by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy', Mentor: Prof. Samaresh Mitra FNA, FASc, FNASc.

M.Sc. in Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry), from University of Burdwan, West Bengal, INDIA in 1984

B.Sc in Chemistry, from Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, INDIA in 1982

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Research Associate at T.I.F.R, Bombay (1990 -- 1991)

Fellow at T.I.F.R., Bombay (1991 -- 1996)

Post doc. with Prof. H. Allen O. Hill, FRS, University of Oxford, UK (1992-1993)

Reader at T.I.F.R., Bombay (1996 – 1999)

Associate Professor at T.I.F.R., Mumbai (1999 –2006)

Professor at T.I.F.R., Mumbai (2006 –)

Visiting Research Scientist at Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, USA (2001-2002)

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Biozentrum, University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany with Prof. Bernd Ludwig (March 2003 -June, 2003)

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION:

Prof. B.C. Haldar Memorial Award from Indian Chemical Society, Calcutta in 1988

INSA Medal for Young Scientists from Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi in 1991

NMR Medal for Young Scientists from Bruker, India in 1992

Geeta Udgaonkar Memorial Award for best thesis from TIFR, Bombay in 1993

Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award from Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi in 1996

Young Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 1991-1996

Affiliate Member, IUPAC , 1995- 1998

Chemical Research Society of India, Bronze Medal 2001

Current Research Interests :

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Redox processes in Biological Systems with special interest on oxidases, oxygenases and peroxidases. Enzyme kinetics, Protein stability and unfolding-refolding processes, protein engineering. (See Research description)

Circular dichroism, Stopped-flow, micro-calorimetry, protein mass spectrometry (ESI-MS & MALDI-MS), protein engineering techniques, high-resolution NMR and time-resolved fluorescence

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Email: shyamal@tifr.res.in