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Dr. Pratim Kumar Chattaraj is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Birla Institute of Technology Mesra. Formerly he was an Institute Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He received his PhD from IIT Bombay. He was a research associate in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He has been actively engaged in research in the areas of density functional theory, ab-initio calculations, nonlinear dynamics, aromaticity in metal clusters, hydrogen storage, noble gas compounds, machine learning, confinement, fluxionality, chemical reactivity and quantum trajectories. He was honored with: University Gold and Bardhaman Sammilani medals; INSA (Young Scientist) medal; CRSI Bronze and Silver medals; IAAM medal; Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences; BM Birla Science Prize; BC Deb Memorial award; Institute Chair Professorship Award (IIT Kharagpur) ; Acharya P.C.Ray Memorial Award (Indian Chemical Society); Professor Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture Award of INSA; Professor R.P.Mitra Memorial Lecture Award, Delhi Univ.; Professor S.K.Siddhanta Memorial Lecture Award, Burdwan Univ.; Professor Prafulla Chandra Ray Memorial Lecture award (NASI). He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, Indian Natl. Science Academy; Indian Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, India; West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology; and FWO, Belgium. He is a Sir J.C. Bose National Fellow. He was Convener, Center for Theoretical Studies, Convener, Kharagpur Local Chapter, INSA, Council member of CRSI, Member, Joint Science Education Panel of Science Academies of India, Dean (Faculty) and Head of the Chemistry Department of IIT Kharagpur. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor of IIT Bombay. He was in the Editorial Board of a number of journals published by the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Frontiers Group, etc. Several of his papers have become