Suban K. Sahoo works as an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, Gujarat, India. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and research. He worked as a visiting professor (2009) at the University of Cagliari, Italy and Kyungpuk National University, South Korea (2015 and 2019). He has also been awarded the young scientist award twice, by Punjab Academy of Sciences (2004) and Orissa Chemical Society (2009). He has published more than 240 papers in various international and national journals; has one Indian patent; and has edited two books (Elsevier), Sensing and Biosensing with Optically Active Nanomaterials and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications, and more than 12 book chapters. The New Journal of Chemistry (RSC) considered him an Emerging Investigator 2021. He is also listed among the top 2% researchers of the world published by Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier, the Netherlands. His work is cited more than 7160 times with an h-index of 46. His research interests include development of fluorescent materials, optical chemosensors, supramolecular host-guest chemistry, sensors based on functionalized nanomaterials, computational chemistry (DFT, molecule docking, and dynamics simulation), synthetic coordination chemistry, and studies of metal complexes in solution.
