Salil Kumar Jana

Salil Kumar Jana

University of St Andrews PhD Student

ABOUT

Salil was born in Dera, West Bengal, India and completed his master’s degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH), where he was working on synthesizing and studying the structure of various P-N ligands, their chalcogenides, and metal complexes.

After that, he was employed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany on a project aimed at synthesizing novel lanthanide compounds with main group ligands.

He later worked on a photoredox catalysis project at Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu.

Currently pursuing a PhD at the University of St Andrews, Salil works with the Zysman-Colman group on boron-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) applications.