Postdoctoral Researcher @ MPI for Solid State Research
Dr. Rajesh Das obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry (Honours) from Utkal University, Odisha, India, in 2016, and his M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry from Sambalpur University, Odisha, India, in 2018. He has completed his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr C. M. Nagaraja at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Ropar, and received his Ph.D. in 2023. His doctoral work earned him the CO2 INDIA Best PhD Thesis Award in 2023, conferred by India’s carbon capture & utilization network (CO2 India). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, with Professor Anthony K. Cheetham and Professor Dan Zhao (2023-26). Recently, he joined the group of Prof. Dr. Bettina V. Lotsch at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Stuttgart, Germany) and his research interests focus on the design of functional metal–organic frameworks for the catalytic conversion of CO2 to value-added chemicals.