Tapas Kumar Maji

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.^[1][2] 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).^{[citation needed]}

Honours and awards

The honours and awards conferred on Maji include^[3]

• Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist, 2020^[4]
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for chemical sciences in 2019^[5]
• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
• Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2018)^[6]
• 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)