Provost, Gwyer Hall

Warden, Gwyer Hall

Head, Department of Chemistry

Chairman, Board of Research Studies Sciences

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Biocatalysis, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Polymer Science, Green Chemistry, Enzymology, Nanotechnology, Materials Science and Chemistry of Natural Products.

Organic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Asymmetric Synthesis, Inorganic / Physical Chemistry.

Conference Organization

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Second Indo-Italian Workshop on Chemistry and Biology of Antioxidants held at the University of Rome “LaSapienza” (Rome, Italy) on 9-11 July 2007.

Chairman of the National Seminar on Green Chemistry and Natural Products held at the University of Delhi (India) on 26-27 November 2007.

Chairman of the Third Indo-Italian Workshop on Chemistry and Biology of Antioxidants held at the University of Delhi (India) on 28-30 November 2007.

Chairperson of the Indo-US S & T Workshop on Green Chemistry held at the University of Delhi (India) on 7-9 January 2008.

President of the IUPAC Sponsored First International Conference on Agrochemicals Protecting Crop, Health and Natural Environment held at IARI (New Delhi, India) on 8-11 January 2008.

Vice-Chairman of Polychar 16, World Forum on Advanced Materials held at the University of Lucknow (India) on 17-21 February 2008.

Chairman of the DAE-BRNS Biennial Symposium on Emerging Trends in Separation Science and Technology (SESTEC-2008) held at the University of Delhi (India) on 12-15 March 2008.

Chairman of the First Indo-Danish DU-SDU Seminar on Emerging Trends in Interfacial Areas of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Sciences held at the University of Delhi (India) on 17-18 March 2008.

Chairman of the Indo-Italian Seminar on Green Chemistry and Natural Products held at the University of Delhi (India) on 5-6 December 2008.

Chairman of the 4^th Indo-Italian Workshop on Chemistry and Biology of Antioxidants held at the University of Delhi (India) on 7 December 2008.

Chairman of the 13^th ISCB International Conference on “Interplay of Chemical and Biological Sciences: Impact on Health and Environment” on 26^th February – 1^st March 2009.

Chairman of the DU-NERI (AU) Workshop on “Atmospheric Science and Climate Change” held on 27-28 February 2009.

Chairman of the National Seminar on “Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD)”’ on 26^th February 2009.

Chairman of the Indo-US Symposium on “Trends in Chemical Biology” on 25^th February 2009.

Chairman of the Indo-Japanese Seminar on “Polymeric Advanced Materials” on 26^th February 2009.

Chairman of the Indo-German Symposium on “Supramolecular Chemistry” on 2^nd March 2009.

Chairman of the Indo-French Seminar on “Biomolecular Chemistry” on 4^th March 2009.

Chairman of the 3^rd Indo-Italian Seminar on “Green Chemistry” on 9^th December 2009.

Chairman of the 6^th Indo-Italian Workshop on “Chemistry and Biology of Antioxidants” on 10^th – 11^th December 2009.

Chairman of the International Symposium on “Trends in Drug Discovery and Development” on 5-8 January 2010.

Principal Investigator, DSIR Research Project entitled “Development of novel therapeutics based upon natural products from Indian medicinal plants”, 2007-2010.

Principal Investigator, DBT Research Project entitled “Novel nucleic acid derivatives as tools for biotechnological and therapeutic applications”, 2007-2010.

Principal Investigator, ISIS Research Project entitled “Synthesis of oligonucleotides”, 2002-2010.

Principal Investigator, NAC Research Project entitled “Synthesis of Selected Nucleosides of Importance in Chemical Etiology Studies of Nucleic Acids” 2002-2010.

Principal Investigator, DRDO Research Project entitled “Synthesis of Fluorine Based Flame-Retardant Materials”, 2008-2010.

Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI, Bangalore).

Professor ASR Anjaneyulu 60^th Birthday Commemoration Award of Indian Chemical Society.

Memberships

Member of the IUPAC Organic and Biomolecular Division's Subcommittees on Biomolecular Chemistry and Green Chemistry.

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal ‘ChemSusChem’.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal 'Biocatalysis and Biotransformation'.

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal ‘Natural Product Communications’.

Member of Editorial Board of the Journal ‘Mendeleev Communications’.

Member of the Editorial Board of the electronic Journal ‘Arkivoc’.

Regional Editor of the electronic Journal ‘Molecules’.

Member of the Advisory Board and Editorial Board of the Journal 'Indian Journal of Chemistry (Section B)'.

Member of the Editorial Board of the abstracting Journals ‘Medicinal & Aromatic Plants Abstracts’ and ‘Indian Science Abstracts’.

INSA-nominated Affiliate Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK).

Council Member of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI, Bangalore).

Fellow and/or Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA, Kolkata), Indian Chemical Society(Kolkata), Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI, Bangalore), Institution of Chemists (Kolkata), Indian Council of Chemists (Agra), Society of Biological Chemists (Bangalore), Indian Society of Bioorganic Chemists (ISBOC, Pune), Society of Pesticide Science India (New Delhi), Zaheer Science Foundation (New Delhi), Indian Society of Analytical Scientists (Mumbai), National Society of Ethnopharmacology (TBGRI, Trivandrum), Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry (Mumbai) and Society of Polymer Scientists of India (Pune).

Member of the Research Council of the Regional Research Laboratory (RRL, CSIR), Jammu (India).

Member of the National Organic Symposium Trust (NOST, Bangalore) Council.

Appointed Visiting Full (Adjunct) Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark.

Lectures at Conferences

National Symposium on Advances in Chemical and Materials Sciences held at the University of Lucknow (India)  in May 2007.

Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides held at Salva Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island (USA) in July 2007.

Second Indo-Italian Workshop on Chemistry and Biology of Antioxidants held at the University of Rome “LaSapienza” (Rome, Italy) in July 2007.

Workshop on Green Chemistry: The Sustainable Synthesis of Fine Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals held at NIPER, Chandigarh (India) in September 2007.

Second Indo-Russian Symposium on Organic Chemistry held at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow (Russia) in September 2007.

International Symposium on Frontiers in Polymer Science and Technology held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (India) in November 2007.

CARBO-XXII, Recent Developments in Carbohydrate Chemistry held at NIPER, Chandigarh (India) in December 2007.

International Tropical Ecology Congress held at the Forest Research Institute (Dehradun, India) in December 2007.

Symposium on Advancing Nanotechnology and its Implications in Biological sciences held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India) in December 2007.

Phytochemistry Workshop held at DIPAS, DRDO (Delhi, India) in December 2007.

International Conference cum Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology held at Ansal Institute of Technology (AIT, Gurgaon, India) in December 2007.

Indo-US S & T Workshop on Green Chemistry held at University of Delhi (India) in January 2008.

IUPAC Sponsored First International Conference on Agrochemicals Protecting Crop, Health and Natural Environment held at IARI (New Delhi, India) in January 2008.

First Indo-Danish DU-SDU Seminar on Emerging Trends in Interfacial Areas of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Sciences held at the University of Delhi (India) in March 2008.

National Symposium on Contemporary Environmental Problems & Biotechnological Applications in their Management held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India) in March 2008.

94^th Session of the Canadian Chemical Society held in Edmonton (Canada) in May 2008.

Second Botulinum Seminar held at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA) in August 2008.

Thirteenth Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants, Spices and other Natural Products (ASOMPS XIII) held at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT, Hyderabad, India) in November 2008.

International Conference on New Developments in Drug Discovery from Natural Products and Traditional Medicines held at NIPER, Chandigarh (India) in November 2008.

49^th Annual Conference of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) on Microbial Biotechnology: Diversity, Genomics & Metagenomics held at the University opf Delhi (India) in November 2008.

Indo-Italian Seminar on Green Chemistry and Natural Products held at the University of Delhi (India) in December 2008.

CARBO-XXIII, Recent Trends in Chemistry and Biology of Carbohydrates and Applications held at Bhavnagar University (Gujarat, India) in January 2009.

National Symposium on Green Chemistry: Applications in Science & Engineering held at Thapar University (Patiala, India) in February 2009.

National Conference on Medicinal Plants of Himalayas – Traditional Uses and Conservation Issues held at HNB Garhwal University (Srinagar, India) in February 2009.

Indo-Japanese Seminar on Polymeric Advanced Materials held at the University of Delhi in February 2009.

13^th ISCB International Conference on Interplay of Chemical and Biological Sciences: Impact on Health and Environment held at the University of Delhi (India) in February – March 2009.

DU-NERI (AU) Workshop on Atmospheric Science and Climate Change held at the University of Delhi  (India) in February 2009.

106. National Seminar on Open Source Drug Discovery held at the University of Delhi in February 2009.

Fifth Indo-ItalianWorkshop on Chemistry and Biology of Antioxidants held at the University of Rome “LaSapienza” (Rome, Italy) in July 2009.

238^th Meeting of the American Chemical Society Session on Small Molecule Therapeutic Agents” held in Washington DC (USA) in August 2009.

Joint 4^th International Conference on Green sand Sustainable Chemistry and the 2^nd Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (AOGSC-2) held in Beijing in August 2009.

13^th BMOS – Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis held in Sao Pedro (Brazil) in September 2009.

13^th Asian Chemical Congress – Special Session Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry held in Shanghai (China) in September 2009.

International Conference on Recent Research Trends in Chemical Sciences and the 46^th Annual Convention of Chemists held at VIT University (Vellore, India) in December 2009.

International Seminar on Current Trends in Pharmaceutical Research: Focus on Orphan Diseases held at the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER, Hajipur, Patna, India) in January 2010.

14^th ISCB International Conference (1SCBC - 2010) on Chemical Biology for Discovery: Perspectives and Challenges held at the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI, Lucknow, India) in January 2010.