Tanay Debnath, Postdoctoral Fellow

August 2024 -

Tanay earned his PhD from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 2019, specializing in chemical hydrogen storage systems, inert bond activation, and related fields. His research delved into the hydrogen storage and release mechanisms of prospective storage systems using cutting-edge Density Functional Theory (DFT) techniques. Additionally, he explored the structural aspects of encapsulated fullerenes and their associated reactions.

Following his PhD, Tanay pursued postdoctoral studies under the mentorship of Prof. Wonwoo Nam in Ewha Womans University, South Korea, focusing on high-valent metallo-porphyrin complexes and their reactions. He was later honored as a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow, allowing him to advance his research on unnatural base pair (UBP) incorporated DNA-polymerase systems using polarizable molecular dynamics (MD) in Prof. Cisneros’ lab at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA from 2022 to April, 2024.

Currently, Tanay is engaged in two key projects: investigating the allosteric effects on chromatin complex mutations and developing Mg²⁺ force fields for the structural elucidation of chromatin complexes.

Tanay loves playing badminton, table tennis, cricket, traveling and watching soccer and cricket.