Dr. Sitakanta Panda

Assistant professor

Dr. Sitakanta Panda is serving as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, DRIEMS UNIVERSITY, Tangi, Odisha. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from IGCAR, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Kalpakkam, India. He has previously served as a Project Scientist at IIT Guwahati, Assam, and as a Guest Faculty at Parala Maharaja Engineering College, Berhampur, Odisha. He holds M.Sc. and M.Phil. Degrees in Chemistry from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and qualified CSIR-NET Exam 2016 for Lectureship with All India Rank 24. Furthermore, he has authored 15 research articles (Citations: 286, h-index: 11), and serves as a reviewer for Springer Nature and Elsevier journals. His research focuses on luminescent materials, including phosphors for solid-state lighting, thermoluminescence dosimetry, and excited-state photophysics. He has hands-on experience with UV-Vis DRS, Spectrofluorometer, X-ray Diffractometer, FT-NMR, TSL/OSL, and FESEM- EDAX spectrophotometers.