Debangsu Sil

About

Debangsu Sil obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 2016. Subsequently, he joined as a post-doc in the group of Prof. Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Texas A&M University, USA, where he studied synthetic mimics of [FeFe]-hydrogenases for questions pertaining to its reaction mechanism. Following this, he joined the group of Prof. J. Martin Bollinger, Jr. and Prof. Carsten Krebs, Penn State University, as a postdoc from 2018 to 2021 and as an Assistant Research Professor from 2021 to 2022. At Penn state, Dr. Sil used advanced spectroscopic methods to study reaction mechanisms of metallo enzymes and Fe/S proteins.