3. ● Chemistry is everything!
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Object appears green as
green light is reflected
more and other
wavelengths are absorbed
4. Is Chemistry everything?
● MAY be NO!
● Physics + Mathematics + Biology + Chemistry = Science.....
Science brings lot of sense in our presence
----- and sustainibility....
5. Type of Chemist you find
● Organic Chemist
● Inorganic Chemist
● Physical Chemist
● Analytical Chemist
● Bio- chemist
● Environmental chemist
● Theoretical chemist
● .....may be lot to pen down
Classification is
based on the topics
of Chemistry
All are
equally
Important
6. I am a Chemist –Studied Inorganic
Chemistry
● Prepared an indicator from hibiscus flower and smoked tea poweder.
● Rayon threads
● Gall bladder stones
● Schiff base complexes
● Heterogeneous Catalysis
7. And I am a Dr. (Mithil)
Thesis tittle “Catalytic detoxification of exhaust gases over mixed metal oxide nano catalysts”
8. So what I learned from Ph. D
CHEMISTRY
>0.01% My Chemistry
9. So let me share 0.01 of my Chemistry
(0.01)
● Understanding perodic table
● Experiments and Calculations
10. How important is periodic table
● We can know the trends in behaviour of elements
11. Experiments
● Qualitative and quantitative
● Sequence of addition? (A+B not equal to B+A)
● Normality and Molarity
● Why NaOH + Water = Heat
● NaNO3 + Water = Cold
● Why chloride is present always in semimicro?
12. What can Ideally happen after this
B. Sc And M. Sc. Chemistry
Industrial
Job
Post graduation
/
Ph. D.
●QC Chemist
●Operational trainee
●Supervisor
●Shift officer
●Team Leader
●Assistant manager Senior manager
●Manager
●CEO
●Bharat Ratn
●Project associate
●Teacher
●Assistant Professor
●Associate professor
●Professor
●Scientist A, B, C,...
●Registrar
●Vice chancellor
●Young scientist
●Bhatnakar awardie
●Bharat Ratn
13. Pahchan kaun?
Priyanka Kothari
B. Sc. Chemistry
Indra Nooyi
bachelor's degrees in
Physics, Chemistry
and Mathematics
Gordon Moore
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Catherine Grace
B. S. degree in chemistry
Nawaazuddin Siddiqui
B. Sc. Chemistry
Divided by profession United by
Chemistry
14. What NEXT?
You are all 18 or will be 18+ and can
decide for our country
So why not yourself?
15. Ideal path for Ph. D. In India
● Summer Interships at research institutes
● State Eligibility Test (SET), National eligibility test (NET), Graduate
Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
● Join as project assistant in National Laboratory/ University
● Apply for jobs in research: Project Assistant, project fellow and
other...
● Write to supervisors who are scientist
16. Ideal path for Ph. D. Abroad
● Test of English as a foreign Language (TOEFL)
● Supervisor and Host
● Contacts
● Fellowships
21. Master and Ph. D. Fellowships
● Fulbright-Nehru Fellowships
● Tata Scholarship
● Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship
● Eiffel Scholarships (M.Sc and Ph.D.)
● Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD fellowship
https://www.daad.de/en/
22. You can do Ph.D.
You are few steps away.......
23. Writing a letter to a scientist
● Just google
● Visit their page read what they do.
● Possibly read their research work.
24. Letter which do not get a Response
Sub: Postdoc application
To,
Professor (Name)
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Dear Sir,
I am Mithil Fal Desai from the Department of Chemistry, Goa University, India have submitted the thesis entitled “catalytic detoxification of exhaust
gases over mixed metal oxide nano catalyst” under the guidance of Prof. A. V. Salker and I am expecting my viva in another three months’
time.
I have worked with transition metal substituted Co3O4, MnO2, LaMnO3 and CuO for my Ph. D. studies. Prepared catalysts oxides were
characterized by XRD, TEM, SEM, XPS, IR, CO-Chemisorption and N2-physisorption. CO and NO-TPD over the catalyst was also studied.
Catalytic performance of the prepared oxides was studied for NO-CO and CO-O2 redox reaction in fixed bed reactors.
Post-doctoral position requirements of your laboratory I feel are partially filled by me. I am curious and enthusiastic in studying biomass
upgrading/conversion in/to fuel via heterogeneous catalysis. I do not have a strong background in kinetics of flow reactors however I have
worked with fixed bed reactors for the catalytic conversion of exhaust gases and analysed the effect of partial pressure of oxygen and CO for
some redox reactions.
Materials synthesis and characterization of supported metal oxides and substituted metal oxides by various analytical instruments have been studied
by me for my Ph. D. thesis. Also for my graduate work spectroscopies like FTIR and Raman are used by me, but in-situ experiment and their
complexity I am not aware of. But as I have mentioned myself as a curious student I will learn all this quickly. Thus, if you find me suitable to
work in your laboratory kindly let me know.
List of the publications and three references are mention in my CV.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours sincerely
Mithil Fal Desai
25. Letter which get response
Sub: Studying catalytic activity littel better: A Postdoc application
Dear professor (Name),
● I am Dr. Mithil Fal Desai from India looking forward to a postdoctoral research experience which would help me to grow in my
career.
● How did I found you?- As I am constantly looking for an opportunity, I happen to visit the following website
● https://studentsforumng.com/2019-postdoctoral-fellowship-heterogeneous-catalysis-south-africa/
● I know the deadline has crossed. But being an optimistic researcher I would like to no my chances in landing up in your
laboratory.
● Why your laboratory?
● I see you working on various aspects of heterogeneous catalysis. Fisher Tropach interests me. I did not study particularly reaction
of CO and H2. However, I do have experience in setting and using fixed bed online catalyst activity monitoring systems. As
cobalt based oxides are well known in Fisher Tropsch. I believe your laboratory is an excellent place to study the same catalytic
reaction. I have a good understanding of BET, TEM, SEM and XRD and XPS, which are preliminary characterisation techniques
for any catalyst systems. I did use these techniques to study some of the metal oxide catalysts for my graduate work. I want to
learn and explore more about it. For that, I need to conduct some practical experiment and have some good guidance. Again, I
believe this is possible in your laboratory. Thus, reading through some of your publication I understand I can learn and contribute
to your laboratory.
● What do I want from you?
● Let me be straight " Do you have any open position for me?" I want to prepare a series of Cu substituted cobalt oxide at a length.
As Cu substitution changes the normal spinel structure to inverse spinel structure cobalt oxide, the relative change concentration
of Co(II) and Co(III) would be interesting. I would like to prepare cobalt oxide by different methods (sol-gel and hydrothermal)
and understand its catalytic property. More we may discuss over if you find suggested topic or my views interesting.
● Apart from that, I would like to invest my time studying progressive deactivation of the catalyst with respect to change in surface
area, size, morphology, and surface concentration of active sites.
● Less likely, but given an opportunity, I would consider myself fortunate if you give me other assignments, as my goal is to
learn and do science little better. I am sure I will not disappoint you.
● Attached are some papers which talk about Cu substituted cobalt oxide as a catalyst and also my CV.
● Thank you. Do let me know the possibility.
● Regards
● Mithil
26. Writting letter means
● Read and know about scientist
● Practice your letter offline
● Adress with title and name
● Tell about you and why you writting
● Why her/him?
● Your skills or will to learn and your flexibility to work.
● Fellowships any
● Thank and be polite
● Choose appropiate title.
● Check for grammer and read it loud.
● Patience 500+......
Talk to people who
did this already
27. I was an Average student
Goverment School and Our Lady of Health-Balli 69%
● Purshottam Walavlkar Higher Secondary School 62%
● Goverment College- Quepem 63 %
● Karnatak University Dharwad 66 %
● NET-LS 2013
28. What I like other than Chemistry
● PubG
● Drama
● Chess
● Music
● Cricket in rice field
● Swiming
