Three scientists from the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune have been selected for the Young Scientist Award 2011, instituted by the Council for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR).
Three scientists from the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune, Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni, Dattatraya Dethe and Rahul Banerjee, have been selected for the Young Scientist Award 2011, instituted by the Council for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR).
The award carries a cash prize and a citation and will be presented to them on September 26, CSIR Foundation Day, in New Delhi.
Kulkarni is with the chemical engineering and process development division of the NCL. He has a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, and has done his post-doctoral research at Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg (Germany).
He is also a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, US, and has set up a micro-reaction laboratory for studying the chemical reactions in miniaturised systems, which is the first of its kind in India.
He has published 35 research papers in international journals, has filed one world patent, four Indian patents and one design patent. Dethe is with the organic chemistry division of the NCL, working in the area of total syntheses of bio-active natural products.
After joining NCL in July 2009, Dethe started a major research programme on simplified analogues for structure-activity relationship studies and new drug discovery programmes. He has 12 publications to his credit and has filed one patent.
Banerjee is with the physical and materials chemistry division of NCL and his areas of research include design and synthesis of porous metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for reversible hydrogen storage and carbondioxide sequestration applications.
He has been with the NCL for the last three years, and is a recognised PhD supervisor from the University of Pune.
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