The Team
Santanu Malakar
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
VIEST Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 2022-2024
(Prof. Karen Goldberg & Prof. Marisa Kozlowski)
Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick 2022
(Prof. Alan Goldman)
Integrated M.Sc. in Chemistry (B.Sc. + M.Sc.) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) 2016
(Advisor: Prof. R. B. Sunoj)
Email: santanu.malakar@rutgers.edu | Phone (Office): +1 (856) 225-6121
Postdoctoral Associate & Fellows
Dr. Samaresh Chandra Sau
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rutgers University-Camden 2025-Present
Ph.D. IISER Kolkata, India 2016
(Prof. Swadhin Mandal)
VIEST Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 2022-2024
(Prof. Karen Goldberg & Prof. Marisa Kozlowski)
Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick 2022
(Prof. Alan Goldman)
Integrated M.Sc. in Chemistry (B.Sc. + M.Sc.) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) 2016
(Advisor: Prof. R. B. Sunoj)
Hometown: Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Graduate Students
Third year Ph.D. Candidate in CCIB
Rutgers University-Camden
B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ibadan 2020
Basirat was born in Nigeria, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Ibadan. After college, she worked as an intern at a federal medical center where she was able to provide pharmaceutical care to patients. With her great passion for research, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB) at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research interests include organometallic chemistry and computational catalysis. Outside the lab, she enjoys reading books and watching movies
First year M.S. Candiate in Chemistry and Molecular Technology
Rutgers University-Camden
First year M.S. Candidate in Chemistry and Molecular Technology
Rutgers University-Camden
Lauren is from Berlin, NJ and received her B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Biology from Stockton University. Her research at Stockton focused on Ruthenium (II) Complexes of Tetradentate Thioether Ligands. Additionally, she worked as a Chemistry tutor on campus for 2 years and completed an internship at Johnson Matthey, a precious metals refinery, as a Quality Control Chemist. After graduation she worked for Stockton University as a Lab Technician and currently works for Rutgers as a Lab Assistant. In her free time Lauren enjoys spending time at the beach tanning or in the mountains skiing.
First year M.S. Candidate in Chemistry and Molecular Technology
Rutgers University-Camden
Yash was born in Varanasi and grew up there. Yash received his BE in Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, in 2023. After his bachelor's, Yash completed his MS-Research from IIT Kanpur in the year 2025. Before joining the group, Yash conducted research in Rheological Behavior of Sodium Palmitate Aqueous Solutions at IIT Kanpur.
Rutgers University-Camden
B.S. in Physics (Advanced Physics), University of Notre Dame 2022
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Graphical Neural Networks, Organometallics
Rutgers University-Camden