Virinder Bhagat
Virinder pursued his integrated BS-MS degree at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, from 2014 to 2019 supported by a KVPY fellowship. Majoring in chemistry, he conducted research in Prof. Sugumar Venkataramani's lab for his master's thesis. In 2019, Virinder joined the group of Prof. Holger Bettinger as a PhD candidate, where he studied the reactivity of borylnitrenes. In September 2023, he became a postdoctoral research fellow in Philipp's group facilitated by an Exploration Grant of the Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung. His current research focus lies on the radical-mediated activation of molecular hydrogen using matrix isolation and computational tools.