Dr. Gunjan Purohit joined the Department of Biotechnology at the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology as an Assistant Professor in December 2024. Before her appointment at JIIT, Dr. Purohit worked as a Research Associate at the Hindustan Petroleum Green Research and Development Centre (HPGRDC) in Bangalore, India from 2022-2023. Prior to that, she served as a Research Scientist (Nano) at IITB-Monash Research Academy, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India with Avisa Biotech Pvt. Ltd., from 2021-2022.

Dr. Purohit holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Chemistry (2010) and a Master of Science in Organic Chemistry (2012) from Ramjas College, University of Delhi. She earned her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2021 from the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, specializing in the design and development of nanomaterials for applications in organic transformations and photosensitization. During her doctoral studies, she received notable awards, including the CSIR-SRF (India) and the DAAD-iPUR (2018) fellowship which funded her research stay at the Department of Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany. At the University of Regensburg, she synthesized palladium-based silica-coated amine-functionalized cobalt nanobeads and investigated their catalytic potential for hydrogenation reactions.

Additionally, Dr. Purohit has received summer training in chemistry (STIC Program) training in the year 2011 from the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India.