Rabindra K. Behera completed his Master of Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, in 2004 and received his PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai in 2010. In early 2010, he went to Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, California as a postdoctoral researcher for two and half years. Subsequently, he moved to USC, Columbia before returning to India with DST-INSPIRE Faculty award to join Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar. Currently he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Rourkela and his research interest includes structural biology of metalloproteins.

 

Positions Held:

2014 – Present: Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Chemistry, NIT Rourkela, Odisha, INDIA.

2013 -  14:  INSPIRE Faculty (Scientist); Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA

2012 – 13:  Post-Doctoral Fellow; University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

                 Advisor: Prof. Caryn E. Outten

                 Project: Role of mitochondrial sulfohydryl oxidase Erv1 in cytosolic Fe-S cluster biogenesis in yeast.  

2010 - 12:  Pos-Doctoral Fellow; Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (C.H.O.R.I), California, USA

                 Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth C. Theil

                 Project: Fe2+ entry, transit and exit in iron storage protein, ferritin.

2006 – 06:  21st Century Center of Excellence Fellow; Nagoya University, Japan (During PhD at TIFR, Mumbai)

                 Advisor: Prof. Yoshihito Watanabe

 

Education:

2010: Ph.D. Chemistry, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai

                                     Advisor: Prof. Shyamalava Mazumdar

                                    Thesis Title: Studies of the Structure, Function and Stability of Cytochrome P450 

                                    and Analogous Heme-proteins 

2004: M.Sc. Chemistry, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

 

Courses Taught:

CY101 (Chemistry, B.Tech), CY521 (Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, M.Sc.: Part of Technology Enabled Learning; https://ankctel.nitrkl.ac.in), CY232 (Chemical Kinetics, OE), CY624 (Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry, PhD coursework), CY273 (Chemical Biology Lab, Int. M.Sc.), CY170 (Chemistry Lab, B.Tech), Physical Chemistry Lab (Int. M.Sc.)

 

Honors and Awards:

2019 - Invited as Review Editor for the Editorial Board of Supramolecular Chemistry, part of the journal Frontiers in Chemistry.

2019 - Invited as Expert Reviewer for Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Dalton Trans, FEBS Letters, RSC Advances and Polyhedron.

2019 - Deputy Presiding Officer (NIT Rourkela Center), GATE – 2019.

2018 – Invited as Expert Reviewer for Online Research Competition (for NPDF) jointly organized by SERB and American Chemical Society.

2018 - Deputy Presiding Officer (NIT Rourkela Center), GATE – 2018.

2017 – Prof. R.C. Tripathy Young Scientist Award by Orissa Chemical Society.

2017 – Regional Coordinator (Rourkela and Ranchi) for KVPY Exam.

2016 – Selected as Mentor by Indian Academy of Sciences for SRF Programme.

2013 July - DST-Inspire Faculty Award, Govt. of India.

2009 - Student Travel Grant from SBIC and DST for presenting poster in ICBIC 14, Japan.

2006 Jun-Aug - 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Fellowship, Govt. of Japan.

2004 - Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Chemical Sciences.

2003 Dec - Qualified Lectureship (LS) - CSIR-UGC–NET in Chemical Sciences.

2002-04 - National Scholarship, Govt. of India.

2002 - Best Chemistry Graduate, Bhadrak College, Orissa, India.