Chapter 4 - Jacobs University

teaching, and Professor Maravanji S. Balakrishna for giving me early lessons about research in
his lab at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
I would also like to thank my aunt and uncle, Mrs. Swapna Mal and Mr. Nirmal Chandra Mal,
for their full financial support and for constant inspiration about education and always believing
in me. Without their support and encouragement it would not have been possible to reach here.
My whole hearted thanks to my parents, my sisters, my brother-in-laws, my brother Mr.
Abhinaba Mal for their all time support till the top of the education life and always believing in
me and encouragement.
I would like to convey my heart-felt thanks to my friends Amarendra Nath Maity, Raghunath
Roy, Kousik Samata, Surajit Jana, Amiya Medda, Ujjal Das, Arindam Das, Niladri Jana(Laluda),
Tushar Maity and Subhrangsu Roy for helping me in many ways and for their encouragement.
I would like to thanks Abhijit Ghosh, Apurba Koner, Indrajit Ghosh, Ranjit Bahadur, Rama
Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Mrs. Lopamudra Bhattacharjee and Lawrence D’Souza, who have made
my stay in Bremen more enjoyable.
I thank Jacobs University, in the person of former Dean Professor G. Haerendel and present
Dean Professor Dr. Bernhard Kramer, for giving me an opportunity to carry out my research
career in JUB.
Finally, I thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for providing financial support in
the context of the priority program SPP 1137 (Molecular Magnetism) and Bayer Schering
Pharma.
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