Dr. Rajesh Sardar
Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
402 N. Blackford St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Email:
rsardar@iu.edu
Phone:
(317) 278-2511
Office:
LD 326P
Education
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, 2006
- M.Sc. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2001
- B.Sc. in Chemistry, The University of Calcutta, India, 1999
Professional Background
Rajesh Sardar joined the faculty at IUPUI—now IU Indianapolis—as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in July 2010. In August 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor. Since July 2022, he is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Rajesh began his career in chemistry at Calcutta University (Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur) and the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) obtaining B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry, respectively. In 2001 he arrived to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, studying polymer-based synthesis of metal nanocrystals with unique optoelectronic properties. His research experience expanded to controlling the colloidal assembly of nanocrystals during his faculty internship with Professor Jennifer Shumaker-Parry at the University of Utah. He then moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a post-doctoral fellow to work with Professor Royce Murray on electrochemical charge storage properties of metal nanocrystals. Using his multidisciplinary research expertise, Rajesh is studying the role of nanoscale structural parameters and surface ligand chemistry in the design of advanced solid-state nanoplasmonic sensors (LSPR and SERS) for disease diagnosis and heterogeneous catalysts for renewal energy production.