{"86051":{"#nid":"86051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Birinchi Das, Fulbright Fellow, Working in Ragauskas Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Birinchi Kumar Das is a Visiting Professor and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow. Birinchi will be working with the Ragauskas research group in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProf. Das was born in an Indian village widely known as Ramdia in Assam, India. He was schooled in his native home town, with his father as one of his high school teachers. He knows a small bit of Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit and English, and of course his mother tongue, Assamese. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA first class postgraduate in chemistry and a holder of the doctoral degree from India\u00e2\u0080\u0099s most prestigious research institution, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he won the Dr. J. C. Ghosh Gold Medal for his Ph.D. thesis. He had earlier worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Prof. M. G. Kanatzidis at Michigan State University, USA for over two years. Prof. Das also spent a year as a visiting Commonwealth Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. James H. Clark of the University of York, UK. He now works as a professor at Gauhati University.  This institution is situated at Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, which is often called the Gateway to the Northeast of India. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERepresenting the most forested part of India, he wants to be involved in work leading to the utilization of renewable bio-resources for the production of value-added products including fuels. In his work he intends to make use of inorganic catalysts while keeping in mind the precepts of green chemistry to ensure a sustainable future through applications of science and technology. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease welcome Prof. Das to Chemistry and Georgia Tech!\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Welcome, Prof. Das to the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry!\n\nProf. Birinchi Kumar Das is a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow from Gauhati University in India, working at Georgia Tech with the Ragauskas research group.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Das, professor at Gauhati University, India."}],"uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2011-09-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:22","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"86061":{"id":"86061","type":"image","title":"Fulbright Fellow","body":null,"created":"1449178110","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:30","changed":"1475894621","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:41"}},"media_ids":["86061"],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EShirley Tomes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=st81\u0022\u003EContact Shirley Tomes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-0591\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["shirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}