Subhashree joined SWACHH Lab in October 2026 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, after a PhD at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (AcSIR) as a DST-INSPIRE Fellow. Her doctoral work built quantum-dot-integrated thin-film artificial leaf devices for visible-light activation of methane and nitrogen; at SWACHH Lab she works on solar-powered carbon capture.
Education
PhD, Chemistry
AcSIR and CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (supervisor: Dr Chinnakonda S. Gopinath)
September 2020 – 2025
From Inert to Utility: Strategies for Sustainable Catalytic Transformations of CH4 and N2 to Lucrative Fuels/Chemicals.
MSc, Chemistry
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
2017 – 2019
CGPA 9.74, second rank.
BSc, Chemistry
Ravenshaw University, Cuttack
2014 – 2017
Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow
SWACHH Lab, Dept. of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur
October 2026 – present
Solar-powered carbon capture.
DST-INSPIRE Research Fellow (doctoral research)
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
September 2020 – 2025
Quantum-dot-integrated TiO2 artificial leaf thin-film devices for visible-light activation of CH4, N2, CO2, H2O and glycerol.
Project Assistant II
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
July 2019 – 2020
Industry-sponsored project with Shell Technology Centre, Bangalore, on the mechanism of methane conversion catalysts under near-ambient conditions.
Publications
Prior & collaborative work6
S S Kanungo, A Murali, D Verma, C S Gopinath
iScience 29, 117001 (2026)
S S Kanungo, A K Mishra, M J Avani, H Bajpai, K N Salgaonkar, H J Bharathkumar, C S Gopinath
Sustainable Energy & Fuels 9 (24), 6798-6810 (2025)
S S Kanungo, C S Gopinath
International patent application WO2025/074395 (2025)
H Bajpai, T R Nivedhitha, E Dais, S S Kanungo, C S Gopinath
Journal of Catalysis 437, 115644 (2024)
S S Kanungo, A K Mishra, N B Mhamane, U Marelli, D Kumar, C S Gopinath
Inorganic Chemistry 61 (48), 19577-19587 (2022)
A K Mishra, S S Kanungo, I Chauhan, T R Nivedhitha
Bismuth-Based Materials for Environmental Remediation, IOP Publishing, book chapter (2022)
Awards & Honours
Best Women Research Scholar in Interdisciplinary Research (Mrs. Uma Devaguptapu and Prof. Ashwini Kumar Nangia Award)
NCL Research Foundation, Pune
2024
Best Poster and Flash Talk
CRSI-ACS Early Career Researchers' Symposium, KIIT, Bhubaneswar
2024
Best Poster Award
International Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living (ICNBL 2023), NIT Srinagar
2023
Best Poster Award
NCL-RF Annual Students' Conference, NCL, Pune
2022
DST-INSPIRE Fellowship for doctoral research
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
2020 – 2025
Merit Scholarship
Vellore Institute of Technology
2017 – 2019
DST-INSPIRE Scholarship for higher education
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
2014 – 2019
Talks & Presentations
Nitrogen to ammonia by CeVO4-TiO2 in sunlight-driven photocatalysis: electronically integrated QDs show the way (poster and flash talk)
CRSI-ACS Early Career Researchers' Symposium, KIIT, Bhubaneswar
2024
Methane to ethanol by CeVO4@TiO2 in sunlight: electronically integrated QD shows the way (poster)
13th Bengaluru INDIA NANO 2024
2024
Methane to ethanol by CeVO4@TiO2 in sunlight: electronically integrated QD shows the way (poster)
5th Humboldt Kolleg: Global Impact of Pandemic on Healthcare, Economy and Environment
2024
Possible fine-tuning of methane activation towards C2 oxygenates by 3d-transition metal-ions doped nano ceria-zirconia (poster)
International Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living (ICNBL 2023), NIT Srinagar
2023
Effect of synthetic route of CuO on hydrogen gas evolution (talk)
17th International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology
2018