Ranjit Thakuria received his BSc from B. Borooah College and MSc from Gauhati University, India. He then moved to University of Hyderabad, where he received his PhD (2011) in Crystal Engineering under the supervision of Professor Ashwini Nangia. After obtaining his PhD, he carried out one year post-doctorate with Professor William (Bill) Jones at University of Cambridge, UK (2011-2012). Then he spent a year at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, as a postdoctoral researcher with (late) Professor Israel Goldberg (2013-2014). In 2014, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University, Assam. Currently he is serving as an Associate Professor at the same department. His major research interest includes pharmaceutical cocrystals, heterogeneous catalysis, and design and synthesis of functional materials based on mechanochemistry. He is the recipient of multiple national and international awards including SERB-TARE grant 2021; SERB-Young Scientist Award; Emerging Investigators in Crystal Growth & Design, ACS (2019 and 2022), and Teacher of the Year Awards 2021 by Academisthan foundation. He is also selected among the top 100,000 or 2% scientists by Elsevier BV, Standford University for the year 2021 and 2022. He was also recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2021 outstanding reviewers. He served as a guest editor for a Crystal Growth & Design virtual special issue on “π−π Stacking in Crystal Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications”. He is a reviewer of various international journals including CrystEngComm (RSC), ChemCommun (RSC), Crystal Growth & Design (ACS), International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Elsevier) etc.

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Current PhD students

 1.  Poonam Deka, UGC-JRF (2018)  2. Diptajyoti Gogoi (2019)    3. Nabadeep Kalita (2022)       4. Mohsin Khan (2022)

Former PhD student

1. Dr. Kashyap Kumar Sarmah, CSIR-SRF (2015-2020)

Thesis title: Mechanochemical Synthesis of Pharmaceutical Solids/ Functional Materials and Their Property Modification

Current position: Assistant Professor, Behali Degree College, Sonitpur.

2. Dr. Trishna Rajbongshi (2016-2022)

Thesis title: Multi-Component Pharmaceutical Solids: Studies On Their Preparation And Physicochemical Properties

Research

Its always been an honour to spend some valuable time with Padmabhushan Dr. Y. K. Hamied and discuss science

• Crystal Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Cocrystal
• Mechanochemistry
• Host-guest chemistry
• Coordination polymer
• Amorphous materials

Collaboration

• Cipla R & D, Mumbai, India
• IISER-Kolkata, India
• CDRI Lucknow, India
• University College London, UK
• University of Birmingham, UK
• University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
• University of Warsaw, Poland
• Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan

List of Publication of Dr. Ranjit Thakuria

• Congratulation all the co-authors for considering our work for the Editor's collection of CrystEngComm 2022.

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• Recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.

• Selected among the top 1,00,000 or 2% scientists by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.

• ACS Crystal Growth & Design Emerging Investigators 2022.

• Young Teacher’s Award for Extraordinary Contribution to Teaching and Research 2021 by Academisthan Foundation

• ACS Crystal Growth & Design Emerging Investigator Award 2019.

• Recognized among top 3 reviewer of Crystal Growth & Design, ACS by editor in chief, 2018.

• Guest editor for virtual special issue on "π−π Stacking in Crystal Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications" of Crystal Growth & Design, ACS, 2019.

• Recipient of DST Fast Track Research Scheme (2014-2017) under Department of Science and Technology, India.

• He is a reviewer of Journals CrystEngComm (RSC), ChemCommun (RSC), RSC Advances (RSC), New Journal of Chemistry (RSC), CrystGrowthDes (ACS), Journal of Molecular Structures, International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Elsevier).