Bidisa Das
Associate Professor, RISE, TCG CREST
Dr. Bidisa Das is an Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), where she leads a research group working on computational modelling of complex chemical processes related to sustainable energy, with particular emphasis on catalysis and aqueous batteries. Her research encompasses the study of molecules, nanostructures, bulk materials and surfaces using electronic-structure methods based on density functional theory and she investigates their structures, energetics, chemical reactivities and other properties.
Dr. Das obtained her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from IISc, Bengaluru. After postdoctoral research on modelling electronic transport in molecular devices at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, she joined the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata as a scientist. During her tenure at IACS, her research evolved from nanoelectronics and molecular transport to the computational modelling of nanocrystalline minerals, particularly iron oxyhydroxides and their contaminant binding properties. Dr. Das had received multiple research grants as principal investigators from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Her current research in RISE focuses on the design of novel catalysts for energy conversion and theoretical modelling of their reactivities. She is interested in designing efficient electrocatalysts derived from naturally occurring nanocrystalline minerals for clean fuels. She has a research grant from ANRF to model efficient metal oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Another major thrust of her research is the design of next-generation aqueous batteries, with particular attention to electrode–electrolyte interfaces and the underlying mechanisms that govern their performance.
Contact: bidisa.das@tcgcrest.org, bidisa_das@yahoo.com
Personal Website: https://www.tcgcrest.org/people/dr-bidisa-das/