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Awards

August 2009 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Junior Research Fellow

August 2011 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Senior Research Fellow

June 2000 The Telegraph School Award for Excellence 2000

July 2006 Dr. Sushil Kumar Mukherjee Endowment Prize

Degrees:

2014
Doctorate     Chemical Sciences

Publications resulting from Research
1) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti, A Critical Theoretical Study on the Two-Photon Absorption Properties of Some Selective triaryl borane-1-naphthylphenyl amine Based Charge Transfer Molecules. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011, 13, 9285. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
2) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti, Solvent induced channel interference in the two-photon absorption process – a theoretical study with a generalized few-state-model in three dimensions. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2012, 14, 1156. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
3) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and K. Ruud, High-Polarity Solvents Decreasing the Two-Photon Transition Probability of Through-Space Charge-Transfer Systems – A Surprising In Silico Observation. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 961. (Impact Factor: 8.539)
4) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti, Enhancement of Twist Angle Dependent Two-Photon Activity through the Proper Alignment of Ground to Excited State and Excited State Dipole Moment Vectors. J. Phys. Chem. A 2012, 116, 8067. (Impact Factor: 2.883)
5) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and K. Ruud, Role of Donor-Acceptor Orientation on Solvent-Dependent Three-Photon Activity in Through-Space Charge-Transfer Systems - Case Study of [2,2]-Paracyclophane Derivatives. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 17570. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
6) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and A. Rizzo, A. On the origin of abnormally high two-photon activity of squaraine dyes - A damped response theory study. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 8030-8035. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
7) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and K. Ruud, The Chemical Control of Channel Interference in Two-Photon Absorption Process Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 1604-1612. (Impact Factor: 22.003)
8) M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti, On the Origin of Large Two-Photon Activity of DANS Molecule. J. Phys. Chem. A 2012, 116, 11034. (Impact Factor: 2.883)
9) M. M. Aam and E. Fromager, Metallophilic interactions in A-frame molecules [S(MPH3)2] (M = Cu, Ag, Au) from range separated density-functional perturbation theory. Chem. Phys. Letts. 2012, 554, 37. (Impact Factor: 1.860)
10) M. M. Alam* and M. Chattopadhyaya, Solvent Dependent One-, Two- and Three-Photon Absorption Properties of PRODAN based Chemo-Sensors. J. Chem. Sci. 2014, 126, 1217-1226. (Impact Factor: 1.085)
11) M. M. Alam*, Donors Contribute More than Acceptors to increase the Two-Photon Activity - A Case study with Cyclopenta[b]naphthalene Based Molecules. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 26342-26347. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
12) M. Alam*, Donor’s Position Specific Channel Interference in Substituted Biphenyl Molecules. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Communication), 2015, 17, 17571-17576. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
13) V. Kundi, M. M. Alam* and P. P. Thankachan*, Triply twisted Möbius annulene: A new class of two-photon active material - A computational study, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015, 17, 6827-6833. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
14) B. Bhattacharya, A. Layek, M. M. Alam, D. Maity, S. Chakrabarti, P. Ray and D. Ghoshal, Cd(II) based metal-organic framework behaving as Schottky barrier diode. Chem. Comm. 2014, 50, 7858-7861. (Impact Factor: 6.567)
15) M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti, New Design Strategy for the Two-Photon Active Material Based on Push-Pull Substituted Bisanthene Molecule. J. Phys. Chem. A 2011, 115, 2607. (Impact Factor: 2.883)
16) M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Sen, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti, The role of relativity and dispersion controlled inter-chain interaction on the band gap of thiophene, selenophene, and tellurophene oligomers. J. Chem. Phys. 2012, 136, 094904. (Impact Factor: 2.894)
17) M. Chattopadhyaya, N. A. Murugan, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti, Spatial spin-charge separation in neutral endohedral metallofullerene: A combined restricted open-shell MP2 and Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics study. Chem. Phys. Letts. 2013, 557, 71. (Impact Factor: 1.860)
18) M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti, On the microscopic origin of bending of graphene nanoribbons in the presence of a perpendicular electric field. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Comm). 2012, 14, 9439. (Impact Factor: 4.449)
19) M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam, S. Sen and S. Chakrabarti, Electrostatic Spin Crossover and Concomitant Electrically Operated Spin Switch Action in a Ti-Based Endohedral Metallofullerene Polymer. Phys. Rev. Letts. 2012, 109, 257204. (Impact Factor: 7.645)
20) M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Sen, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti, On site Coulomb repulsion dominates over the non-local Hartree-Fock exchange in determining the band gap of polymers. J. Phys. Chem. Sol, 2014, 75, 212. (Impact Factor: 2.048)
21) M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti, Chemical control of a molecular spin switch in presence of gate. RSC Adv. (Communication) 2013, 3, 19894. (Impact Factor: 3.289)
22) M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam, Debasis Sarkar and S. Chakrabarti, Electrically controlled eight-spin-qubit entangled-state generation in a molecular brake junction. ChemPhysChem, 2014, 15, 1747. (Impact Factor: 3.138)
23) M. M. Alam and C. Daniel, One- and two-photon activity of diketopyrrolopyrrole-Zn-porphyrin conjugates investigated by means of linear and quadratic density functional response theory. Theor. Chem. Acc. 2016, 135, 41. (Impact Factor: 2.233)
24) B. Senjean, E. D. Hedegard, M. M. Alam, S. Knecth and E. Fromager, Combining linear interpolation with extrapolation methods in range-separated ensemble density-functional theory. Mol. Phys. 2016, 114, 968. (Impact Factor: 1.837)
25) M. M. Alam, F. Bolze, C. Daniel, L. Flamigni, C. Gourlaouen, V. Heitz, J. Schmitt, A. Sour and B. Ventura, π-extended diketopyrrolopyrrole-porphyrin arrays: one- and two-photon photophysical investigations and theoretical studies. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 21954 (Impact Factor: 4.449)
26) M. M. Alam*, S. Knecht and E. Fromager, Ghost interaction coorection in ensemble density functional theory for excited states with and without range-separation. Phys. Rev. A. 2016, 94, 0125111 (Impact Factor: 2.765)
27) M. M. Alam*, V. Kundi and P. P. Thankachan, Solvent effects on static polarizability, static first hyperpolarizability and one- and two-photon absorption properties of functionalized triply twisted Möbius annulenes: A DFT Study. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 21833 (Impact Factor: 4.449)
28) M. Chattopadhyaya and M. M. Alam* A Theoretical Study of One- and Two-Photon Activity of D-Luciferin. Computation, 2016, 4, 43. (Open Access)
29) M. M. Alam*, M. T. P. Beerepoot and K. Ruud, Channel interference in multiphoton absorption. J. Chem. Phys. (Accepted)
30) M. M. Alam*, K. Deur, S. Knecht and E. Fromager, Combining extrapolation with ghost interaction correction in range-separated ensemble density functional theory for excited states. (Submitted, Available on arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03478).
31) M. M. Alam*, Ramprasad Misra and Kenneth Ruud “Interplay of Twist Angle and Solvents with Two-Photon Optical Channel Interference in Aryl-Substituted BODIPY Dyes” (Submitted)

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General Seminar
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Journées Scientifique Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg UMR 7177
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Rencontre des Chimistes Theoriciens du Grand Est (RCTGE)
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Arctic MSCA-IF workshop
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16th International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Kohn-Sham Theory
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International Summer School in Electronic Structure Theory: Electron correlation in Physics and chemistry (ISTPC)
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Rencontre des Chimistes Theoriciens du Grand Est (RCTGE)
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icon-pin-location Strasbourg, France
Recent Advances in Correlation Problems
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Molecular organization and complexity: A chemical perspective
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Gaussian Workshop 2012
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Recent Advances in Many Electron Theories II
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icon-pin-location Puri, India
International symposium on the facets of weak interactions in chemistry
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Theoretical chemistry symposium 2010 (TCS 10)
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icon-pin-location Kanpur, India
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