Samir Barman, Ph.D.

Alumni and Former Staff

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Interests

Development of surface supported well-defined Tungsten and Molybdenum catalysts under SOMC to investigate their activities in alkane, olefin metatheses and Ammoxidation reactions in particular by using Mo based catalysts.

Selected Publications

  • Gold(I) N-heterocyclic Carbene Based Initiator for Bulk Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-lactide
    L. Ray, V. Katiyar, S. Barman, M. J. Raihan, H. Nanavati, M. M. Shaikh and P. Ghosh
    J. Organomet. Chem., 692, 4259-4269, (2007)
  • Highly Convenient Amine-free Sonogashira Coupling in Air in a Polar Mixed Aqueous Medium by trans- and cis-(NHC)2Pd...
    L. Ray, S. Barman, M. M. Shaikh, P. Ghosh
    Chem. Eur. J., 14, 6646-6655, (2008)
  • Azulene based metal-organic frameworks for strong adsorption of H2
    S. Barman, H. Furukawa, O. Blacque, K. Venkatesan, O. M. Yaghi, H. Berke
    Chem. Commun., 46, 7981-7983, (2010)
  • Incorporation of active metal sites in MOFs via in situ generated ligand deficient metal-linker complexes
    S. Barman, H. Furukawa, O. Blacque, K. Venkatesan, O. M. Yaghi, G.-X, Jin, H. Berke
    Chem. Commun., 47, 11882-11884, (2011)
  • Triptycene based luminescent metal-organic gels for chemosensing
    S. Barman, Jai Anand Garg, O. Blacque, K. Venkatesan, H. Berke
    Chem. Commun., 48, 11127-11129, (2012)
  • Synthesis and hydrogen adsorption properties of internally polarized 2,6-azulenedicarboxylate based metal–organic f...
    S. Barman, A. Khutia, R. Koitz, O. Blacque, H. Furukawa, M. Iannuzzi, O. M. Yaghi, C. Jani...
    J. Mater. Chem. A, 2, 18823-18830, (2014) 

Education

  • B. Sc., Chemistry, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India, 2005
  • M. Sc., Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Maharashtra, India, 2007
  • Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013

Professional Profile

  • 06/2007-04/2008, Research Associate, R&D Center, Aditya Birla Group, Mumbai, India.
  • 04/2008-08/2008, Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
  • 2013-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST Catalysis Center, KSA.

Scientific and Professional Membership

  • Swiss Chemical Society

Awards

  • 2006-2007, Madhav Pandya Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • 2010-2011, Research scholarship 'FORSCHUNGSKREDIT' of the University of Zurich, Switzerland

KAUST Affiliations

  • KAUST catalysis Center (KCC)
  • Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

Homogeneous and Heterogeneous catalysis Organic and Organometallic Synthesis Development of Metal-Organic Materials for Gas Storage and Chemical Sensing Applications, etc.

Former Faculty

  • ​Jorg Eppinger, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
  • Jr-Hau He, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
  • Kazuhiro Takanabe, Ph.D. (Professor)
  • Lain-Jong Li, Ph.D. (Professor)
  • Valentin Rodionov, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
  • Vicent Tung, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
  • Yu Han, Ph.D. (Professor)

 

Former Research Staff

  • Abou-Hamad edy, Ph.D. Research Engineer
  • Douaa Hamed (Lab Technician)
  • Haibo Zhu, Ph.D. (Research Scientist)
  • Isidoro Morales Osorio , Ph.D. (Research Technician)
  • Jeremie Pelletier ( Lab Manager)
  • Jing Fan (Lab Technician)
  • Lu Zhou
  • Lan Zhao (Research Technician)
  • Linjie Su (Lab Technician)
  • Rong-rong Jiang (Lab Technician)

Research Scientist

  • Chen Zhu, Ph.D.
  • Huaifeng Li, Ph.D.
    • Jun Pan, Ph.D.
    • Muralirajan Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D.
    • Pavlo Nikolaienko, Ph.D.
    • Ram Karan, Ph.D.
    • Sergey Kozlov, Ph.D.
    • Xiulin Yang, Ph.D.
    • Yuanlong Shao, Ph.D.
    • Yichen Cai, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellows

    • Abdesslem Jedidi, Ph.D.                                                     
    • Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury,Ph.D.
    • Akshaya K Samal, Ph.D.
    • Anatoly Peshkov, Ph.D.
    • Athira Cheruvelil, Ph.D.
    • Chaochao Yue, Ph.D.
    • Chaojie Cui, Ph.D.
    • Changguang Yao, Ph.D.
    • Chinmoy K. Hazra, Ph.D.
    • Dandan Zhang, Ph.D.
    • Diego Zapater Bes, Ph.D.
    • Eleonora Fava, Ph.D.
    • Eva Pump, Ph.D.
    • Fazal Raziq, Ph.D.
    • Gabriel Buchel, Ph.D.
    • Gangaiah Mettela,Ph.D.
    • Hong Wang, Ph.D.
    • Hassan Ait Ahsaine, Ph.D.
    • Ida Autiero, Ph.D.
    • Janet Chakkamadathil Mohandas, Ph.D.
    • Jung-Hyun Park, Ph.D.
    • Jinsong Hu, Ph.D.
    • Jie Chen, Ph.D.
    • Kwangjae Lee, Ph.D.
    • Karthik Peramaiya, Ph.D.
    • Kushal Deepak Bhatte​,Ph.D.
    • Luis Miguel Azofra Mesa
    • Liangjin Xu, Ph.D.
    • ​Manbo Li, Ph.D.
    • Michael Kelly, Ph.D.
    • Mannathan Subramaniyan, Ph.D.
    • Manas Bhunia, Ph.D.
    • Niladri Maity, Ph.D.
    • Olga Gladkovskaya, Ph.D.
    • Raju Dey, Ph.D.
    • Sai Vikrama Chaitanya vummaleti, Ph.D.
    •  Somphonh Peter Phivilay, Ph.D.
    • Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Ph.D.
    • Shao-Chi Lee, Ph.D.
    • Stefania Evoli, Ph.D.
    • Shixiong Min, Ph.D.
    • Srikanth Pedireddy, Ph.D.
    • Shashank Sakleshpur Nagaraja, Ph.D.
    • Tunc Deniz, Ph.D.
    • Tianyou Chen, Ph.D.
    • Wei Zhao, Ph.D.
    • Won Suk Juang, Ph.D.
    • Xuechao Liu, Ph.D.
    • Xiufang wang, Ph.D.
    • Yuan Wang, Ph.D.
    • Yunfei Cai, Ph.D.
    • Yupeng Pan, Ph.D.
    • Yuri Lebedev, Ph.D.
    • Yogesh Raghunath Patil, Ph.D.
    • Zhaolai Chen, Ph.D.

    Ph.D. Students

    • Adrian Hol, Ph.D
    • Arwa Makki, Ph.D.
    • Adrian Hohl, Ph.D.
    • Amal A. Baqais, Ph.D.
    • Abdullah Dakhi, Ph.D.
    • Azimet Karluk, Ph.D.
    • Baraa Werghi, Ph.D.
    • Batian Chen, Ph.D.
    • Bilel Hamzaoui, Ph.D.
    • Bedour E. Al-Sabban, Ph.D.
    • Chao Guan, Ph.D.
    • Dalal Noureldine, Ph.D.
    • Duanxing Li, Ph.D.
    • Ding-Jier Yuan, Ph.D.
    • Eleanor Ang Pei Ling, Ph.D.
    • Gabriel Jeantelot, Ph.D.
    • Hind Al-Johani, Ph.D.
    • Haleema Alamri, Ph.D.
    • Hsin-Hua Huang, Ph.D. 
    • Israa Salem Al-Rowaihi, Ph.D.
    • Ibrahim Dursun
    • Keisuke Obata, Ph.D.
    • Liliana Panarone, Ph.D.
    • Miguel Dinis Veloso Guerreiro, Ph.D.
    • Maha Al Haddad, Ph.D.
    • Muhammad Qureshi, Ph.D.
    • Muhammad Naufal Lintangpradipto, Ph.D.
    • Nawal alhajri, Ph.D.
    • Nazeeha Alkayal, Ph.D.
    • Noor Almana, Ph.D.
    • Nouf Al Jabri, Ph.D.
    • Nikita Kolobo, Ph.D.
    • Oleksii Pustovarenko, Ph. D.
    • Quaid Johar Samun Virpurwala, Ph.D.
    • Reem Al-Shareef, Ph.D.
    • Reem Alshumrani, Ph.D.
    • Sarah Almahdali, Ph.D.
    • Sheikha Lardhi, Ph.D.
    • Stefan Grotzinger, Ph.D.
    • Tatsuya Shinagawa, Ph.D.

    Master Students

    • Abdulaziz Khan
    • Abdulelah Qahtan
    • Amer Alabd
    • Alexandra Vancea
    • Ali Hamieh
    • Khalid F. Alahmadi
    • Kanav Kalra
    • Mram Alyami
    • Mohammad Al Rebh
    • Salha E. Alotaibi


    Former Administration

    • Ann Bauwens (Executive Secretary)
    • Jiao Qiu (Business Administrator)
    • Wenwen Zhu(Administrative Assistant)
    • Xijun Deng(Administrative Assistant)
    • Xianzheng Meng(Business Administrator)
    • Yi-Cing Li (Business Administrator)