Faculty

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  • Name: Dr. Arun Kumar, FRSC
  • Designation: Associate Professor, Dean & HOD
  • Education: M.Sc. (C. C. S. University, Meerut), Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
  • Email: akumar.ch@doonuniversity.ac.in
  • Phone: +919911001624
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Organometallic Chemistry, Catalyst Development, Transition Metal Catalysis, Coupling Reactions, Material Science, Coordination Chemistry.
  • Name: Dr. Charu Dwivedi
  • Designation: Assistant Professor
  • Education: M.Sc.(Punjab University, Chandigarh), Ph.D. (BARC, Mumbai)
  • Email: charudwived@gmail.com, cdwivedi.ch@doonuniversity.ac.in
  • Phone: 0135-2533103
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Materials Science, Hazardous Waste Remediation, Sensing of Heavy Metal Ions, Development and Applications of Polymer–Nanoparticle Composites and Carbon Based Nanostructures, Nanoparticles Assisted Drug Delivery Systems, Photo-Catalysis and Applications of Nanoparticles in Water Remediation
  • Name: Prof. P. Balaram (Padma Bhushan; Former Director, I.I.Sc. Bangalore)
  • Designation: Adjunct Faculty
  • Education: Post-Doctoral Fellow (Harvard University, U.S.A.), Ph.D. (Carnegie-Melon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), M.Sc. (IIT Kanpur)
  • Email: pb@iisc.ac.in
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Balaram has made outstanding contributions towards the understanding of the structure and function of voltage gated transmembrane peptide channels. His major contributions may be classified into three areas: (i) studies on transmembrane peptide channels, (ii) conformational models for peptide folding and (iii) biophysical and chemical studies on membranes and model systems. He has elucidated the structural chemistry of -aminoisobutyric acid peptides related to alamethicin. He has carried out detailed studies on synthesis, conformational analysis and biological activity of channel peptides and has provided the basis for postulating the helix dipole model for these channels. Dr Balaram has made valuable contributions in the general area of design and synthesis of model peptides, particularly disulfides. These studies have provided a means for developing bioorganic models for redox proteins containing active disulfide loops. Balaram's contributions in the area of biological membranes and in developing fluorescent probe methodology for examining membrane structure are highly significant. This aspect is exemplified by work establishing regional differentiation of sperm plasma membranes. In his most recent work, he has demonstrated the use of disulfide crosslinking as a means of thermally stabilizing multimeric proteins, using thymidylate synthase as a model.
  • Name: Dr. Shailesh Upreti (President, C4V, New York, USA)
  • Designation: Adjunct Faculty
  • Education: Post Doctoral Fellow (New York State University), Ph.D. Chemistry (IIT Delhi)
  • Email: shail_upreti@rediffmail.com
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: (i) Advance materials development for applied sciences and functional devices and Li ion batteries, (ii) Inventor of multiple breakthrough technologies (iii) Holds multiple US patents and their foreign equivalents in more than 30 countries (iii) Expert in bringing the technologies to market including one in the material recycling space, (iv) bringing new products to market, business development, Li-ion supply chain & industry networking, downstream processing and investigating organizational performance gaps, (iv) Well integrated into the global battery industry and serves on various advisory boards, (v) Adept in defining corporate commercial objectives, business support programs and achieving organizational goals while bringing new technology to market.
  • Name: Dr. Jiben Roy (Professor, University of Mississippi for Women, USA)
  • Designation: Visiting Faculty
  • Education: Ph.D. (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
  • Email: jroy@muw.edu
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Organo-analytical Chemistry, and Chemistry of Herbs and Spices
  • Name: Dr. Pankaj Sharma (Professor, Instituto De Quimica, National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM)
  • Designation: Visiting Faculty
  • Education: Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
  • Email: pankajsh@unam.mx
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry
  • Name: Dr. Shivani Verma
  • Designation: Assistant Professor
  • Education: Ph.D.
  • Email: dr.shivani@doonuniversity.ac.in, shivaniverma407@gmail.com
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Ionic Liquids, Nano Catalysts, Biological Active Molecule, Computational Chemistry, Agrochemicals, Green Pesticides, Pesticides Chemistry, Residue Chemistry, Environmental Analytical Chemistry