Tapas completed his first degree in Chemistry (BSc. Hons) followed by a Masters in Physical Chemistry (MSc) and a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the premier research institution, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel during 1997 to 1999 in the world leading Solid state NMR group as a post-doctoral visiting scientist. He then moved to UK in February 2000 and worked as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester (2000-2003) on an industrial project funded by ICI Synetix. He later worked on multimillion Euro projects under EU framework V and VI programmes (2003-2008) in various parts of UK before joining as a lecturer in Chemistry (December 2008) at the University of Central Lancashire.

Sen, Tapas, Whittle, Jacob and Howard, Matthew (2012) A hierarchically ordered porous novel vanado-silicate catalyst for highly efficient oxidation of bulky organic molecules. Chemical Communications, 48 (35). pp. 4232-4234. T. Sen and I. J. Bruce “Surface engineering of Nanoparticles in suspension for particle based biosensing” Scientific Reports 2: 564 | DOI: 10.1038/srep00564 (Nature publishing Group). T. Sen, S. J. Sheppard, T. Mercer, M. Eizadi-sharifabad, M. Mahmoudi, A. Elihissi “Simple one-pot fabrication of ultra-stable core-shell superparamagnetic nanoparticles for potential application in drug delivery” RSC Advances 2, 5221 (2012). Sen, Tapas and Mercer, Tim (2012) Simple one-pot fabrication of novel hierarchically ordered porous magnetic nanocomposites for bio-catalysis. Royal Society of Chemistry Advances . ISSN 2046-2069 (In Press)