Biography

Dr. Dey was born in a small village in Nadia dristrict, West Bengal. He completed his bachelor and master in chemistry from University of Kalyani and IIT Kanpur respectively. He obtained PhD from University of Calcutta (IACS, Kolkata), working with Prof. Abhishek Dey on bioinspired catalyst design, synthesis and emulating their electrocatalytic activity for small moleculer activation with focus on chemical energy conversion. Then, he joined at the lab of Prof. Marc Fontecave at College-de-France, Paris to develop metal-thiolate catalysts for CO2 reduction. Then he extended his scientific journey to Prof. Victor Mougel’s lab at ETH, Zurich and developed a thermodynamically and kinetically advantageous method to generate transition metal hydrides at benign condition. He joined in the department in Dec. 2023. His prime area of research is development of electrocatalysts for translating biophysical phenomena in non-biological reactions with prime focus of inert chemical activation, fine chemical synthesis and mechanism.

Key Publications

• Subal Dey, F Masero, E Brack, M Fontecave, V Mougel Electrocatalytic metal hydride generation using CPET mediators; Nature 2022, 607, 499-506

• Subal Dey, T. K. Todorova, M. Fontecave, V. Mougel Electroreduction of CO2 to Formate with Low Overpotential using Cobalt Pyridine Thiolate Complexes Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 132, 15856-15863.

• Subal Dey, A Rana, D Crouthers, B Mondal, PK Das, MY Darensbourg, A Dey Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by [Fe-Fe]-Hydrogenase Active Site Models; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 8847-8850.

• ME Ahmed, S Dey, MY Darensbourg, A Dey, Oxygen-Tolerant H2 Production by [FeFe]-H2ase Active Site Mimics Aided by Second Sphere Proton Shuttle; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12457-12468.

• S Dey, A Rana, SG Dey, A Dey Electrochemical hydrogen production in acidic water by an azadithiolate bridged synthetic hydrogenese mimic: Role of aqueous solvation in lowering overpotential ACS Catalysis 2013, 3, 429-436 

  A. Nayek, S. Dey, S. Patra, A. Rana, P. N. Serrano, S. J. George, Stephen P. Cramer, S. Ghosh Dey, A. Dey Facile electrocatalytic proton reduction by a [Fe–Fe]-hydrogenase bio-inspired synthetic model bearing a terminal CN− ligand; Chem Sci 2024, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05397K