Senior Research Fellow

• Development of Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Laser Based Integrated Cavity Output Spectrometer for monitoring the trace gases.
• Non-invasive diagnosis of Helicobactor pylori infection by exhaled breath analysis.
• Applications of isotope selective Cavity Enhanced Absorption Laser Spectroscopy in Biomedical Research and Clinical Diagnostics .
• Development and application of Residual Gas Analzser based mass spectrometer for biomedical research and environmental sciences.

• Calibration-free 1f-normalized 2f-wavelength modulation spectroscopy using a cw external-cavity quantum cascade laser operating in the 7.5-8 μm, Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal, Sanchi Maithani, Gourab D Banik, Manik Pradhan 2017, (Submitted).

• Cavity ring-down spectroscopy measurements of l-type doubling of hot bands in Δ vibrational states of OCS near 5.2 μm, Gourab D Banik, Suman Som, Abhijit Maity, Manik Pradhan 2017, (Submitted).

• Exhaled nitric oxide as a potential marker for detecting non-ulcer dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease, Suman Som, Gourab D Banik, Abhijit Maity, Manik Pradhan 2017, (Submitted).

• Mode-hop-free external cavity quantum cascade lasers for high-resolution spectroscopy and multi-component chemical sensing, Gourab D Banik, Abhijit Maity, Suman Som, Mithun Pal, Santanu Mandal, Sanchi Maithani and Manik Pradhan. (Submitted).

• Cavity ring-down spectroscopy using an EC-QCL operating at 7.5 µm for direct monitoring of methane isotopes in air, Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal, Gourab Dutta Banik, Sanchi Maithani and Manik Pradhan Laser Physics Letters, 2017 (Accepted).

• Isotope selective activation: a new insight into the catalytic activity of urease , Sanchi Maithani, Mithun Pal, Abhijit Maity, Manik Pradhan. RSC Advance, 2017, 9, 2315-2320.

• An EC-QCL based N2O sensor at 5.2 um using cavity ring-down spectroscopy for environmental applications, Gourab D Banik, Suman Som,Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal, Sanchi Maithani, Santanu Mandal, Chiranjit Ghosh, Manik Pradhan. Analytical Methods, 2017, 9, 2315-2320.

• Natural 18O and 13C urea in gastric juice: A new route for non-invasive detection of ulcer, Abhijit Maity*,Mithun Pal*, Suman Som, Sanchi Maithani, Sujit Chaudhuri and Manik Pradhan, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry,2017, 409 (1), 193-200.

• Targeting erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase and oxygen-18 isotope of breath CO2 for sorting out Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes,Chiranjit Ghosh,Santanu Mandal, Gourab Dutta Banik Abhijit Maity,Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay, Shibendu Ghosh and Manik Pradhan, Scientific Reports, 2016, (Accepted).

• Continuous wave external-cavity quantum cascade laser-based high-resolution cavity ring-down spectrometer for ultrasensitive trace gas detection,Anulekha De, Gourab Dutta Banik, Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal and Manik Pradhan Optics Letters, 2016, 41 (9), 1949-1952.

• Molecular hydrogen in human breath: a new strategy for selectively diagnosing peptic ulcer disease, non-ulcerous dyspepsia and Helicobacter pylori infection, Abhijit Maity, Mithun Pal, Sanchi Maithani, Barnali Ghosh, Sujit Chaudhuri and Manik Pradhan Journal of Breath Research, 2016, 10 (3), 036007.

• Assessing Atmospheric CO2 Entrapped in Clay Nanotubes using Residual Gas Analyzer, Shankar Das, Abhijit Maity, Manik Pradhan and Subhra Jana Analytical Chemistry, 2016, 88 (4), 2205–2211.

• Residual gas analyzer mass spectrometry for human breath analysis: a new tool for the non-invasive diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection, Abhijit Maity, Gourab D Banik, Chiranjit Ghosh, Suman Som, Sujit Chaudhuri, Sunil B Daschakraborty, Shibendu Ghosh, Barnali Ghosh, Arup K Raychaudhuri, Manik Pradhan, Journal of Breath Research, 2014, 8 (1), 016005.

• Oxygen-18 stable isotope of exhaled breath CO2 as a non-invasive marker of Helicobacter pylori infection, Abhijit Maity, Suman Som, Chiranjit Ghosh, Gourab Dutta Banik, Sunil B Daschakraborty, Shibendu Ghosh, Sujit Chaudhuri, Manik Pradhan, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 2014, 29 (12), 2251-2255.

• Excretion kinetics of 13C-urea breath test: influences of endogenous CO2 production and dose recovery on the diagnostic accuracy of Helicobacter pylori infection, Suman Som, Abhijit Maity, Gourab Dutta Banik, Chiranjit Ghosh, Sujit Chaudhuri, Sunil Baran Daschakraborty, Shibendu Ghosh, Manik Pradhan, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry,2014, 406(22) 5405-5412.

• Diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in irritable bowel syndrome patients using high-precision stable 13 CO 2/12 CO 2 isotope ratios in exhaled breath, Gourab D Banik, Abhijit Maity, Suman Som, Chiranjit Ghosh, Sunil B Daschakraborty, Sujit Chaudhuri, Shibendu Ghosh, Manik Pradhan, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 2014, 29 (10).,406(22) 5405-5412.

• Non-invasive 13C-glucose breath test using residual gas analyzer-mass spectrometry: a novel tool for screening individuals with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes,Chiranjit Ghosh, Abhijit Maity, Gourab D Banik, Suman Som, Arpita Chakraborty, Chitra Selvan, Shibendu Ghosh, Barnali Ghosh, Subhankar Chowdhury, Manik Pradhan, Journal of Breath Research, 2014, 8 (3), 036001.

• Oxygen-18 isotope of breath CO2 linking to erythrocytes carbonic anhydrase activity: a biomarker for pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, Chiranjit Ghosh, Gourab D Banik, Abhijit Maity, Suman Som, Arpita Chakraborty, Chitra Selvan, Shibendu Ghosh, Subhankar Chowdhury, Manik Pradhan, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2015, 5.

• Mechanisms linking metabolism of Helicobacter pylori to 18O and 13C-isotopes of human breath CO2, Suman Som, Anulekha De, Gourab Dutta Banik, Abhijit Maity, Chiranjit Ghosh, Mithun Pal, Sunil B Daschakraborty, Sujit Chaudhuri, Subhra Jana, Manik Pradhan, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2015, 5.

• Halloysite Nanotubes Capturing Isotope Selective Atmospheric CO2, Subhra Jana, Sankar Das, Chiranjit Ghosh, Abhijit Maity, Manik Pradhan, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2015, 5.

• Aug 2014-Present : Senior Research Fellow; SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India.
• Aug 2012-Jul 2014 : Junior Research Fellow; SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India.

• 2011: Master of Science in Physics from Sambalpur University, Orissa, India.
  
• 2009: Bachelor of Science Physics (Honors) from Burdwan University, West Bengal, India.

• 1st class First in M.Sc
• INSPIRE Fellowship for doctoral research from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2012-2017)
• National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET) -2012
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - 2012
• Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) - 2012
• Best Oral Presentation in Bose Fest - 2016