“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”
.......Claude Bernard
My research is to focus towards
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Organic biomineralization and Biological crystals
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Bioinspired optical materials crystallization mechanisms
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Heterogeneous nucleation, SAMs, SURMOFs substrate crystallization
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Solid state supramolecular chemistry, crystallization, morphology control
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Polymorphs, Co-crystals and Crystal engineering
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Pharmaceutical drugs better formulations towards health care products
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[2+2] CAR and Photo/thermosalient materials (organic or metal complexes with design and crystal packing understanding)
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Organic and inorganic smart materials for better optoelectronic, NLO, SHG applications
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Green and Sustainable Chemistry developments
Awards and honors
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INDO-USA postdoc fellowship 2016. Worked at CHEME, MIT, USA.
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Received Best and honorable poster prize at MIT-BRUKER symposium FEB-22-2018.
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Selected for Dragon competition to propose new idea of research at IUCr 2017.
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ACS young emerging investigators in Crystal Growth & Design, 2017.
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DST IST and Inspire travel grant to attend IUCr 2014 at Montreal Canada.
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Junior Research Fellowship (UGC) Award by University Grants Commission (UGC) for qualifying Joint Council of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR)-University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) in June 2009 with JRF.
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Junior Research Fellowship (UGC) Award by University Grants Commission (UGC) for qualifying Joint Council of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR)-University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) in December 2009 with JRF.
Editor responsibilities
MDPI, CRYSTALS, IF: 2.589, Open access journal
Special Issue "Polymorphism in Pharmaceutical Compounds"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/crystals/special_issues/polymorphism_compounds
Metrics
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Total number of publications = 36
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Conference papers = 3
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Book chapters = 2
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Citations = 1498
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h-index = 19
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i10-index = 27 (google scholar and Scopus)
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ORCID iD = O0000-0002-2726-8352
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Web of Science Researcher ID = E-6498-2017
Affiliations
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, postdoc fellow, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Dr. Benjamin A Palmer research group. Oct-2020 to present.
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National University of Singapore (NUS), postdoc fellow, Singapore, Prof J. J. Vittal research group, (Sep-2018 to Sep-2020)24 months
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MIT-CHEME, USA as INDO-USA postdoc fellow, (2017-2018,12 months), Prof Allan S. Myerson research group
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ICCAS, Beijing, research associate (2016-2017, 13 months), Prof Hu Wenping Group
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Research associate at Crystallin research private limited, HCU, 5 months, Prof Ashwini Nangia
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Ph.D University of Hyderabad (2010-2015), Prof Ashwini Nangia research group
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B.Sc (M.P.C) and M.Sc (Organic Chemistry), Andhra university
Emerging Investigators in Crystal Growth & Design
