ABOUT:
Dr. Arijit Das is basically a Chemical Educationist and specifically an Inorganic Chemist. At present, Dr. Das is holding the post of HOD & Associate Professor (Inorganic Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, Bir Bikram Memorial College (BBMC), Agartala, West Tripura. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from Tripura University in 1998, 2001 and 2008 respectively. During the Ph.D., Dr. Das got ‘PMLPM’ research fellowship of T.U. for two yrs (2002-2004). Dr. Das completed his Post-Doctoral Research at “Synthetic Inorganic Laboratory” under the valuable guidance of Prof. M.K.Singh, Former Dean of Science & VC In-charge, Tripura University (April 2008 – Dec 2010). He joined as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Govt. Degree College, Dharmanagar, North Tripura on Jan -2011. Dr. Das received ‘State Civil Award for Scientific and Environmental Activities’ dated Jan 21, 2026 from the Govt. of Tripura in the Statehood day celebration of Tripura dated Jan 21 2026.
Apart from teaching assignments in the Govt. Degree College, he was also the Principal Investigator of two (02) SERB-DST Major Research project, under the ANRF, SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi amounted Rs. 46.37.808 (Forty Six Lakh Thirty Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Eight only) during the year (2013-2015) & (2022-2025) respectively.
Dr. Das is an nominated member of ‘American Chemical Society’ (ESTD-135 yrs ago) sinceDec-2013, senior fellow of Indian Chemical Society (2011-); Life Member of Indian Science Congress (2011-) and Indian Academic of Forensic Science (2010-).
Dr. Das innovated 22 time economic teaching methodologies, invented 40 formulae, proposed 06 advanced laboratory UG experiments on Paper Chromatography by using green chemistry in the field of Organic, Inorganic and Laboratory Chemical Education within the period (2011-2024), indexed by the World’s Top five Universities namely Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/massachusetts-institute-of-technology-mit-indexed-articlesz/); Imperial College London, UK (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/imperial-college-london-uk-indexed-articles/); Stanford University, US (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/stanford-university-published-articles/); Oxford University, UK (Link:https://arijitchemistryworld.in/oxford-university-indexed-articles/ ); Harvard University, US (Link:https://arijitchemistryworld.in/harvard-university-indexed-articles/); and in the University of California, Davis, US (Link:https://arijitchemistryworld.in/uc-davis-us/).
‘American Chemical Society (ACS)’ conferred recognition to Dr. Das’s 38 formulae through his virtual presentation entitled ‘Formulae Based Time Economic Mnemonics in Chemical Education’ in the ACS conference ‘ACS Spring 2023’ on March 26, 2023. The virtual presentation of Dr. Das in the conference namely ‘ACS Spring 2023’ indexed in the ACS scimeetings (Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/scimeetings.3c00021) .
Earlier He also achieved recognitions on his innovations and inventions from the copyright Office, Govt. of India, New Delhi (2018-2024) (Link:https://arijitchemistryworld.in/copyright-registration-by-the-govt-of-india/ ); Indian Chemical Society (2015); Federation of African Societies of Chemistry (2018); ERIC, Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education (2013-2021) (Link:https://arijitchemistryworld.in/eric-indexed-articles/ ); The International Society of Educational Research, US (2018); Lady Stephenson Library, UK (2019); City College of New York, NY (2017 & 2018) etc.
Eighteen (18) of his time-economic formulae came in the form of two (02) Free Educational Tools ‘Hydrocarbons Parser’ & ‘Diatomic Bond Order Calculator’ made by minerazzi.com, Bayamon, Puerto Rica, USA on Aug-2015 and Dec-2018 respectively (URL: http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/hydrocarbons/parser.php & Diatomic Bond Order Calculator (minerazzi.com).
These were indexed in the library of City College of New York, City College Chemistry Web Resources Page (CUNY.edu.) in their Computational Chemistry Section (URL: Computational – Chemistry – LibGuides at City College Libraries (cuny.edu).
Dr. Das’s most popular innovative book, entitled ‘Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education: A Handbook for Classroom Lectures’, published (online) dated Sept 11, 2019 and published (Hardcopy) dated Nov 1, 2019 by the Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, England, UK (Link: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/innovative-mnemonics-in-chemical-education) indexed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US; Oxford University, UK; Harvard University, US; and Stanford University, US.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.(URL: Explore the British Library Search – Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education A Handbook for Classroom Lectures (bl.uk)
Dr. Das is an author in the ‘WikiEducator’, Open Education Resource Foundation (OERF), Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand since May 06, 2021 https://wikieducator.org/User:Arijitdas78chem.
Dr. Das published 66 research papers (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/research-project-publications/); proposed 22 innovative time economic teaching methodologies & invented 40 formulae in chemistry (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/innovative-teaching-methodologies/); published 34 book chapters (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/chapters-published/); proposed 06 laboratory green experiments (Link: https://books.iaph.in/chapter-3-advanced-methods-for-the-separation-and-identification-of-p-and-d-block-elements-by-paper-chromatography/); written 03 books (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/books-book-chapter/); formulated 02 AI based free educational tools (Link: https://arijitchemistryworld.in/tool-software/) under different international and national publishers of Chemistry and Chemical Education.
State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Govt. of Tripura, Tripura, India also acknowledged innovative works and State Civil Award 2026 news of Dr. Das in their Educational news portal dated July 11, 2025 and Jan 21, 2026 (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSrXKzCyEik) /(Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKR-_dvH6g ) & (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7EnnOGj1fo )
| Quote of Life: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” – Albert Einstein “For Innovation – Think outside the Text book” – Dr. A. Das “Simple Thinking Makes Chemical Education Metabolic, Time Economic and Interesting” – Dr. A. Das |