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Research scientist with 5+ years of experience in chemical sciences | Catalyst development | Analytical characterization

Profile Summary

My research involves chemical synthesis and analytical characterization of molecules to establish structure-activity relationships, which exposed me to techniques such as elemental analysis, UV-vis, fluorescence, multi-nuclear NMR, EPR, X-ray absorption, IR, Raman, ESI-MS, GC, and GC-MS. I have directly contributed to a National Institutes of Health grant that is worth $1.7M of lab funding and 5 publications in top, peer-reviewed journals. My scientific communication skills have been strengthened by 4 oral presentations and 2 poster presentations at university symposia and 2 national conferences, most recently at the ACS fall 2019 meeting. My efforts in consulting have involved market research and data analysis, resulting in knowledge transfer to business development teams in multi-national companies in the chemicals and food ingredients industry. I participated in routine conference calls, interviews with KOLs, and formal presentations for business leadership during my tenure as a consultant. I love working in teams and have diverse collaborative experience through working in multi-disciplinary teams for research and business problems. I am an agile learner and have taught myself R programming through 13 certifications and workshops, which directly contributed to the data acquisition, data wrangling, and data visualization in 2 consulting projects. Related codes are published on GitHub and can be accessed using the link: https://github.com/saikatban91. I aim to use my diverse experiences to create impactful solutions to problems in the industry. Contact: baner098@umn.edu, 6127073365

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Inorganic Chemistry
• ★ Analytical Chemistry
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Medical Device Literature Reviews
• ☆ Science Communication

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting

Research Market Research, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Data Visualization

Product Development Formulation

Work Experience

Research Assistant

University of Minnesota

December 2014 - Present

Consultant

University of Minnesota - University Economic Development Office

January 2018 - March 2019

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

December 2013 - May 2014

Education

PhD in Chemistry

University of Minnesota

August 2014 - August 2020

MSc in Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

July 2012 - May 2014

BSc with Chemistry Honours

University of Calcutta

July 2009 - June 2012

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Saikat Banerjee, Apparao Draksharapu, Patrick M. Crossland, Ruixi Fan, Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que, Jr.(2020). Sc3$\mathplus$-Promoted O{\textendash}O Bond Cleavage of a ($\upmu$-1,2-Peroxo)diiron({III}) Species Formed from an Iron({II}) Precursor and O2 to Generate a Complex with an {FeIV}2($\upmu$-O)2 Core . Journal of the American Chemical Society. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Valeria Dantignana, Joan Serrano-Plana, Apparao Draksharapu, Carla Magallón, Saikat Banerjee, Ruixi Fan, Ilaria Gamba, Yisong Guo, Lawrence Que, Jr., Miquel Costas, et al.(2019). Spectroscopic and Reactivity Comparisons between Nonheme Oxoiron({IV}) and Oxoiron(V) Species Bearing the Same Ancillary Ligand . Journal of the American Chemical Society. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Saikat Banerjee, Waqas Rasheed, Ruixi Fan, Apparao Draksharapu, Williamson N. Oloo, Yisong Guo, Lawrence Que, Jr.(2019). {NMR} Reveals That a Highly Reactive Nonheme Fe {IV} =O Complex Retains Its Six-Coordinate Geometry and S =1 State in Solution . Chemistry {\textendash} A European Journal. 25. (41). p. 9608--9613. Wiley

(2019). NMR Reveals That a Highly Reactive Nonheme Fe(IV)=O Complex Retains its 6‐Coordinate Geometry and S = 1 State in Solution .

Waqas Rasheed, Apparao Draksharapu, Saikat Banerjee, Victor G. Young, Jr., Ruixi Fan, Yisong Guo, M. Ozerov, Joscha Nehrkorn, J. Krzystek, Joshua Telser, et al.(2018). Crystallographic Evidence for a Sterically Induced Ferryl Tilt in a Non-Heme Oxoiron({IV}) Complex that Makes it a Better Oxidant . Angewandte Chemie. 130. (30). p. 9531--9535. Wiley

Waqas Rasheed, Apparao Draksharapu, Saikat Banerjee, Victor G. Young, Jr., Ruixi Fan, Yisong Guo, M. Ozerov, Joscha Nehrkorn, J. Krzystek, Joshua Telser, et al.(2018). Crystallographic Evidence for a Sterically Induced Ferryl Tilt in a Non-Heme Oxoiron({IV}) Complex that Makes it a Better Oxidant . Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57. (30). p. 9387--9391. Wiley

Maity, Shubhra B. and Banerjee, Saikat and Sunwoo, Kyoung and Kim, Jong Seung and Bharadwaj, Parimal K.(2015). A Fluorescent Chemosensor for Hg2+ and Cd2+ Ions in Aqueous Medium under Physiological pH and Its Applications in Imaging Living Cells . Inorganic Chemistry. 54. (8). p. 3929-3936.