Pujarini Banerjee
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Biography
Pujarini Banerjee has expertise in the technique of matrix isolation spectroscopy, and her research interests involve the infrared spectroscopic probing of binary hydrogen bonded complexes. The objective is to decipher the nature of intermolecular interactions that best describe the spectral shifts of the groups involved in non-covalent binding. The complexes studied are mostly of biological or atmospheric interest, and include both conventional and non-conventional variants of hydrogen bonds. The observed spectral shifts are interpreted in terms of various structural and energetic parameters predicted by electronic structure theory. Pujarini got her doctoral degree from the University of Calcutta, and is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Tapas Chakraborty, at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.