Monochura Saha

Monochura Saha is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotreck group at MIT Media Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree (B.Sc, Honors) in Chemistry at Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, India. After graduating, he qualified for JAM and was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT-Madras) for his Master’s degree (M.Sc). During his Master’s work, he worked in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry to develop glucose based drug molecules under the guidance of Prof. Indrapal Singh Aidhen. After graduating, he qualified UGC-NET, GATE, and received a prestigious Inspire Doctoral Fellowship, and joined as a Ph.D. scholar at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER-Kolkata, India). For his Ph.D. he worked in interdisciplinary chemistry for his thesis titled “Dynamic Molecular Catalysts Based on Molecular Photoswitches”. He obtained his Ph.D. in December 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay. After completing his Ph.D. he worked as a Project Assistant in the same group and worked on Photoregulated Drug molecules for antibacterial and anticancer activity.