Tapas Kumar Maji

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Tapas Kumar Maji is a professor in the Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru with research interests in topics related to porous materials, nanoscale metal-organic frameworks and composites and functional gel materials.{{cite web |title=Dr Tapas Kumar Maji |url=https://www.jncasr.ac.in/faculty/tmaji |website=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |access-date=8 November 2021}}{{cite web |title=Research@MOLMAT Lab |url=http://old.jncasr.ac.in/tmaji/ |website=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |access-date=8 November 2021}} Maji obtained his MSc degree in inorganic chemistry from Burdwan University in 1997 and PhD degree from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 2002. He did a post-doctoral fellowship at Kyoto University, Japan (2003–05).{{fact|date=November 2022}}

Honours and awards

The honours and awards conferred on Maji include{{cite web |title=Awards & Accolades |url=https://www.jncasr.ac.in/faculty/tmaji/awards-accolades-0 |website=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |access-date=8 November 2021}}

  • Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist, 2020{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for chemical sciences in 2019{{cite web |title=Awardee Details |url=https://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=552 |website=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology |publisher=CSIR Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi |access-date=5 November 2021}}
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
  • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2018){{cite web |title=Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji |url=https://fellows.ias.ac.in/profile/v/FL2018015 |website=Indian academy of Sciences |access-date=8 November 2021}}
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellow for senior researcher by AVH Foundation, Bonn, Germany (2015).
  • Materials Research Society of India Medal for contributions in Materials Science (2014)
  • National Academy of Sciences, India-Scopus young scientist award in Chemistry (2012)
  • Young Associate of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2012–2017)
  • Young Investigators in Chemical Sciences by journal of Chemical Communications (2011)

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