Dr. Brijith Thomas
Designation : Assistant Professor
Research interest :
NMR Crystallography
Characterisation of materials
NMR methodology development
Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation
Address office : Room no xx
Department of Chemistry
New York University,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: bt2354@nyu.edu
Tel: 123456789
During my Ph.D. (with Prof. Huub de Groot) at Ledien University, Netherlands, we developed a novel methodology to solve the supra molecular structure of the molecule used in artifical photosynthesis using solid state NMR, Electron Nano Crystallography and Quantum Mechanical modelling. The work was a part of ’bio solar cell consortium’, which is one of the first artificial solar fuel cell projects in Europe. The theme of Huub’s group was to study about the interaction between light and materials in the case of natural photosynthesis and how it could be successfully mimicked for artificial photosynthesis. During my stay at Ames Laboratory, Iowa, USA (with Dr. Aaron J. Rossini), my focus was to use the state of the art Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation (DNP) – SSNMR to understand the mechanism of an industrially relevant heterogeneous catalyst. At at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (with Dr. Michal Leskes), I am involved in the development of DNP methodology to understand the solid electrolyte used in the battery and about how the disorder of a system can affect the DNP mechanism. And in the future I want to use solid state NMR with other complementary techniques to do novel chemistry associated with energy crisis.
Creating a full range UI/UX apps accross the whole platform.
Software-enabled platforms to completely change the way of UI/UX iterations.
We have strict intentions to completely change the way of UI/UX creation.
2012 – 2016
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Advisor: Prof. Huub J. M. de Groot, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Research: Towards artificial photosynthesis – Resolving supramolecular packing ofartificial antenna chromophores through a hybrid approach-ISBN: 9789462955189Phd award date: 10/11/2016
2009 – 2011
Masters in Chemistry, Advisor: Prof. R. Karvembu, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.
Research: Copper on Boehmite: Efficient nano catalyst for the synthesis of beta ketoenamines, Obtained 9.34 CGPA
2005 – 2009
Bachelors in Chemistry, obtained 93.4 % in Chemistry,Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala
www.mgu.ac.in
2019 – Postdoctoral Deans Fellow, Advisor: Dr. Michal Leskes, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Research: Methodological development of Metal Ion Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (MIDNP) for solid state electrolyte
2017 – 2018
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Advisor: Dr. Aaron J. Rossini, Ames Laboratory, Iowa, USA
Research: DNP – SSNMR to study the mechanisms of industrially important
heterogeneous catalysts
2016 – 2017
Guest researcher, Advisor: Prof. Huub J. M. de Groot, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
Research: Plane wave DFT calculations on chlorophylls
2019 Dean of Faculty Fellowship from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2018 Elected as the representative to the postdoctoral association at Iowa State University, Ames
2014 Suraj Manrao Diversity Travel grant to attend the 55th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 Indian Academy of Science summer fellow
Assisted in the solid state NMR course for bachelor students at Leiden University, Netherlands
Worked as undergraduate course assistant for biochemistry laboratory course in Leiden University. This involves carrying out examination and evaluation duties assigned by the Ledien Institute of Chemistry, Ledien University,Netherlands.
During my third year of Ph.D. I was involved in training three bachelors students with their final project at Leiden Univeristy. In the final year of Ph.D. I worked closely with the first year PhD Student Zhongwu Sun to train him in SSNMR experiments. During my Postdoc stay at Weizmann Institute of Science, I am involved in guiding a master student Chen Openheimer with the masters project. I am also part of training young PhD students with the theory of NMR, basic NMR experiments, EPR, and DFT calculation aspects of their project.
2021 25th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Prague, Czech Republic- oral presentation
2021 22nd ISMAR Conference, Tokyo, Japan – poster presentation
2020 VI International school for young scientists, St Petersburg, Russia
2019 India – Weizmann Exchange: Chemical Biology and Materials Science, Rehovot, Israel – poster presentation
2018 Rocky Mountain Conference, Colorado, USA, 2018 – selected for oral presentation
2016 Developments and Applications of Solid State NMR to Materials Science, Chemistry
and Engineering Conference, Bulgaria, 2016 – oral presentation
2016 International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Chemistry, Valencia, Spain –
oral presentation
2015 NMRDG Meeting, Netherlands – poster presentation
2015 ISMAR Conference, Shanghai, China – oral presentation
2015 The 9th Alpine Conference on Solid State NMR, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France – poster presentation
2015 The 11th Euromar, Prague, Czech Republic- poster presentation
2014 Solar Fuel Cell Meeting, Passau, Germany – oral presentation
2014 SMARTER4 Conference, Durham University, UK- poster presentation
2014 The 55th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
2013 The 8th Alpine Conference on Solid State NMR, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France – poster presentation
2013 EuroSolarFuel Meeting, Torun, Poland – oral presentation
2013 The 9th Euromar, Hersonissos, Crete- poster presentation
2012 First EuroSolarFuels conference Gla sgow, UK – oral presentation