Maria de Lurdes Augusta Bugalho

Manas Sutradhar (MS) received Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta, India in December 2008. In January 2009, MS joined as Post-doctoral research associate at the Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany in the group of Professor Dr. Eva Rentschler. MS received a Post-doctoral research fellowship from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Germany. In 2011, MS joined as Post-doctoral research associate at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal in the group of Professor Armando J. L. Pombeiro. MS is a recipient of Post-Doc grants from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Portugal. During his research career MS published 54 papers in international peer review journals (including 2 Reviews + 1 Reference Module) with an accumulated impact factor of ca. 170 and more than 1150 citations (over 900 without self citations) with h-index 20 (ISI Web of knowledge, based on 51 papers). He is the first author in 35 papers. He is also the corresponding author in 22 papers. In addition, he has 3 book chapters in books with international circulation and one patent. Most publications (ca. 44, including Reviews and Reference Module), book chapters and patent were published after PhD. The major contribution of his research work is in the areas of chemistry of oxidovanadium(IV/V) and non-oxido vanadium(IV) complexes and their applications. Another area of his work concerns the synthesis of polynuclear complexes with interesting magnetic properties. He jointly supervised with the group leader 1 postdoc, 1 Ph.D., 2 Master and more than 9 ERUSMUS students. He participated in four research projects (Project No. PEst-OE/QUI/UI0100/2013 (BL/CQE-2014-023, PTDC/QUI-QUI/102150/2008, PTDC/QUI-QUI/119561/2010-BL/CQE-2013-009 and PTDC/QEQ-QIN/3967/2014), funded by FCT, Portugal. He is also active as a reviewer for various international scientific journals, e.g. Dalton Transactions, RSC advances, Inorganica Chimica Acta, Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Catalysis Communications etc. He was also a part-time lecturer (2003 – 2007) at the Department of Chemistry, Maulana Azad College (A Degree College under University of Calcutta), Kolkata, India. He received Young Scientist Award 2006 from Indian Chemical Society, India, and Sir P. C. Ray Research Award 2006 from the University of Calcutta, India.

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