Sarbajit Banerjee is the Davidson Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Chancellor EDGES Fellow at Texas A&M University. Sarbajit is a graduate of St. Stephen’s College (BSc) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D.). He was a post-doctoral research scientist at the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University prior to starting his independent career at the University of Buffalo in 2007. He moved to Texas A&M University in 2014.
He was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009; the American Chemical Society ExxonMobil Solid-State-Chemistry Fellowship in 2010; the Cottrell Scholar Award in 2011; the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Young Leader Award in 2013; the American Chemical Society Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship in 2013; the Scialog Innovation Fellowship in 2013; the IOM3 Rosenhain Medal and Prize in 2015; and the Royal Society of Chemistry/IOM3 Beilby Medal in 2016. In 2012, MIT Technology Review named Sarbajit to its global list of “Top 35 innovators under the age of 35” for the discovery of dynamically switchable smart window technologies that promise a dramatic reduction in the energy footprint of buildings.
He serves as Senior Editor of ACS Omega and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. His research interests are focused on solid-state chemistry, electron correlated materials, mechanisms of electrochemical energy storage, heavy oil extraction and processing, and functional coatings.