Dr Sayam Sengupta Sayam Sen Gupta did his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from University of Kolkata followed by his masters at IIT-Kanpur. He then moved to United States where he finished his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh. After two post-doctoral stints in US and Germany, he joined NCL as a scientist in December 2006. He is an inorganic chemist by training and works in the area of catalysis and biomaterials. He runs a research lab at NCL and also teaches undergraduates at IISER-Pune.