Dr. Abir GOSWAMI

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: +81-70-8491-5697

Address: 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

About Me

Abir Goswami was born and raised in West Bengal, India in 1992. There, he completed his undergraduate education in 2012 at University of Calcutta. After completing his master degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) in 2014, he joined as a PhD (Organic Chemistry) at the University of Siegen (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Schmittel. During PhD training, his research interest was to study networked multicomponent molecular machines and autonomously controlled information systems. He has expertise in catalytic off-equilibrium molecular machines. In 2020, he joined the Emergent Soft Matter Function research group at Riken as a postdoc under the supervision of Prof. Takuzo Aida. He is currently utilizing the nano-mechanical motion of monomer in supramolecular materials to get macroscopic functions, like in various biological systems. He is working on small fluorinated drug carriers to increase blood–brain barrier permeability that could solve the long-standing issue in pharmaceutical industry. Also, one of his project is to understand the dynamic bond braking/making to realize next generation supramolecular adhesive materials. In 2021, Dr. Goswami was awarded the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship.

Experience

Nov 2021 – Present

Nov. 2020 – Nov. 2021

June 2020 – Nov. 2020

Dec. 2014 – June 2020

JSPS Research Fellow, Emergent Soft Matter Function research group, Riken with Prof. Takuzo Aida.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Emergent Soft Matter Function research group, Riken with Prof. Takuzo Aida.

Researcher, University of Siegen with Prof. Michael Schmittel

Ph.D. researcher, University of Siegen under Prof. Dr. Michael Schmittel

Honors

Awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship, 2021.
Summa Cum Laude award from University of Siegen, Germany, 2020.
Merit Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) in 2012.

Selected Publications

S. Kundu, D. Mondal, V. V. Rajasekaran, A. Goswami, and M. Schmittel. Three-Input Logic AND Gate Drives Sequential Three-Step Catalysis by Parallel Activation of H+ and Ag+ as a Catalyst Duo. Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 17007−17011.
A. Goswami, S. Saha, E. Elramadi, A. Ghosh and M. Schmittel. Off-Equilibrium Speed Control of a Multistage Molecular Rotor: 2-Fold Chemical Fueling by Acid or Silver(I), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 14926–14935.
A. Goswami, M. S. Özer, I. Paul, and M. Schmittel, Evolution of Catalytic Machinery: Three-Component Nanorotor Catalyzes Formation of Four-Component Catalytic Machinery, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 7180-7183.
A. Goswami, S. Gaikwad, and M. Schmittel, A Switchable Catalyst Duo for Acyl Transfer Proximity Catalysis and Regulation of Substrate Selectivity, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 2997-3001.
P. K. Biswas,+ A. Goswami,+ S. Saha and M. Schmittel, Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonding in Three-Component Nanorotors, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 14095-14099. +Equal contribution
M. Schmittel, A. Goswami, I. Paul and P. K. Biswas, Book Chapter: Motion and Nanomechanical Effects in Supramolecular Catalysts, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020, 195-218.
A. Goswami and M. Schmittel, Double Rotors with Fluxional Axles: Domino Rotation and Azide-Alkyne Huisgen Cycloaddition Catalysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 12362–12366; Angew. Chem. 2020, 132, 12461–12465.
A. Goswami, S. Saha, P. K. Biswas and M. Schmittel, (Nano)mechanical Motion Triggered by Metal Coordination: From Functional Devices to Networked Multicomponent Catalytic machinery, Chem. Rev. 2020, 120, 125−199.
M. S. Özer, I. Paul, A. Goswami and M. Schmittel, Cation Exchange Reversibly Switches Rotor Speed And is Monitored by a Networked Fluorescent Reporter, Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 9043–9047.
A. Goswami, T. Paululat and M. Schmittel, Switching Dual Catalysis without Molecular Switch: Using a Multicomponent Information System for Reversible Reconfiguration of Catalytic Machinery, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 15656–15663.
A. Goswami and M. Schmittel, Heteroleptic Copper Phenanthroline Complexes in Motion: From Stand-Alone Devices to Multi-Component Machinery, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2018, 376, 478–505.
A. Goswami, S. Pramanik and M. Schmittel, Catalytically Active Nanorotor Reversibly Self-Assembled by Chemical Signaling Within an Eight-Component Network, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 3955–3958.
I. Paul, A. Goswami, N. Mittal, and M. Schmittel, Catalytic Three-Component Machinery: Control of Catalytic Activity by Machine Speed, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 354–358.
A. Goswami, I. Paul and M. Schmittel, Three-Component Nanorotors Generated from Fusion of Complexes and Post-Fusion Metal-Metal Exchange, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 5186–5189.
S. Gaikwad,+ A. Goswami,+ S. De and M. Schmittel, A Metalloregulated Four-State Nanoswitch Controls Two-Step Sequential Catalysis in an Eleven-Component System, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 10512–10517. + Equal contribution
A. Goswami, N. Phukan and J. B. Baruah, Tetranuclear Zinc(II)-oxy-(benzothiazole)-2-Thiolate Aggregate and Copper(I) Phenylthiolate Aggregate, Cogent Chemistry, 2015, 1, 1060046.
N. Phukan, A. Goswami and J. B. Baruah, Distinctions of Positional Isomers of -(methylthiazol-2-yl) Nitrobenzamide by Copper and Iron Ions, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2015, 435, 239–243.
J. B. Baruah, K. Gogoi, B. Nath and A. Goswami, Decyl and Nonanyl Bis-phenols as Prospective Surfactant, J. Sci. Ind. Res. 2014, 73, 231–234