Dr. Samanwita Pal is an NMR spectroscopist and a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur. She earned a BSc. (Hons.) from Jadavpur University and a MSc degree in Chemistry from IIT Madras. She further received her PhD in small molecule NMR and NQR spectroscopy from IIT Madras in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. N. Chandrakumar. She pursued her postdoctoral fellowship in the group of Prof. Stephan Grzesiek at Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland during 2010-2012. She joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur in 2012 December as an Assistant Professor. Currently she is continuing as a Professor at the Department of Chemistry.

Dr. Pal received Ratna Rao Memorial prize and Dr. S. R. Ramadas 60^th Birthday Commemoration award for best academic record in Chemistry during the period 2002-2004. She earned the prestigious Prof Langmuir Prize for best PhD Thesis in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry from IIT Madras in 2010. She has served as an elected Executive Committee member of the National Magnetic Resonance Society, India from March 2021 for a period of three years. She has published several articles in reputed journals and presented her findings in numerous national and international meetings as an invited speaker.

Dr. Pal is working in small molecule solution-state and solid-state NMR and NQR for past two decades. Her research interest at present focusses on design and application of NMR methods to decipher molecular dynamics and interactions relevant in a variety of areas ranging from energy, environment to defence and medicine. Her research group utilizes the 500 MHz WB NMR spectrometer from the central facility and a 20 MHz Time Domain (TD) NMR spectrometer housed in her research laboratory. The research group majorly implements NMR relaxation, diffusion and magnetization transfer methods. Some of the current thrust areas the group is working in are as follows:

1. NMR relaxometry, diffusometry and Cryoporometry
2. Small molecule solution state magnetization transfer and correlation experiments
3. NMR Solid state ion dynamics in porous materials
4. NMR chemical exchange in condensed phase
5. NQR detection and instrumentation
6. Pulse sequence design and modification