Shyamalava Mazumdar's Biography

Shyamalava Mazumdar, Senior Professor (I), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Dr Shyamalava Mazumdar, Senior Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, has completed his post doc from University of Oxford, UK. He was a Visiting Research Scientist at Princeton University, USA (2001-2002) and University of Frankfurt, Germany (2003)
Dr Mazumdar also Served as Convenor of the Symposia on advances in bioinorganic chemistry (SABIC) held at TIFR during 1996 and 2000 and also Convenor of the Second Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference to be held in conjunction with SABIC-2004 in December 2004; Indian representative and Member of the International Steering Committee, Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry. He is the recipient of many awards and honors to his credit.
He delivered invited Lectures at almost all the biennial International Bioinorganic Chemistry Conferences held at various countries all over the world since 2001 to 2015, and at several National and International conferences on Bioinorganic Chemistry; Delivered lectures at different universities and research labs in India and abroad including Princeton University, EMBL- Heidelberg, University of Frankfurt and Leiden Institute of Chemistry; Reviewed papers for Journal of J. Am. Chem.Soc., Angew Chem., J. Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Langmuir, J. Am. Soc. Mass spectrom., J. Mass spectrom. etc.
He is the member of the Task Force of the DBT, India on Nano-biotechnology, and co-opted member of the Programme advisory committee on Chemistry of SERB, India.
Dr Mazumdar has published more than 100 original papers in international Journals and review articles. His research interests include Biological mass spectrometry; Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biophysical chemistry; Special interest on Electron transfer and Redox processes in Biological Systems; Enzymology, Protein stability and protein engineering.