Name:                                    Parimal Kanti Bharadwaj, FASc, FRSc, FNA

            Date of Birth:                          September 6, 1951

            Present Position:                     Senior Professor, Department of Chemistry                                                            

                                                          Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

                                                          208016, India

 Academic and Professional Career

            M. Sc. (1974) :           Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

            Ph.D.  (1979) :           Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

            Postdoctoral :             Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan ( 1979-80)

                                               Rutgers University, NJ, USA (1980-84)

                                              Assistant Prof. (non-tenure track), Rutgers University (1984-85)

            Senior Research          University of California, Davis, USA (1985-87)

            Associate:

            Assistant Prof:             Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1988)

            Associate Prof:            Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1993)

            Professor :                   Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1995)

            Senior Professor          Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2009)

            Visiting Professor       University of Saarland, Germany (1998 & 1999), 3 months

Pohang University of Science and Technology 

(POSTECH), South Korea (2000-2001), 1 year

 Administrative  and Academic Activities

            Chief Warden, Hall of Residence III, IIT Kanpur (1992-93)

            Member, Senate Scholarships and Prizes Committee, IIT Kanpur (1992)

            Convener, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee (1989, 1997-99)

            Chair, 4^th India-Singapore Cooperative and Collaborative Research Symposium (2003)

Co-Chair, Section on Hybrid Materials, International Conference on Advanced Materials (2007)

Conference Chair, 3^rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (2011)

Group Leader, 2^nd International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium, Brisbane, Australia (2011)

Guiding summer research fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences since 2000

Participation in the INSPIRE Programs of the DST (2012) for search of  senior talents

Participation in the KVPY Program of the DST (2010) for search of  young talents

            Participation in NPTEL activity (distant education) for Chattisgarh students

            Member, Research Council, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (1996-1999; 2007-)

Member, National Assesment and Acredition Council for Indian Universities (2010, 2011)

Member, UGC Committee on Special Assistance Program for Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (2001, 2002)

Member, UGC Committee on Special Assistance Program for Banaras Hindu University  (2011, 2012)

Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Jharkhand Central University, Ranchi

            Member, Board of Studies, Banaras Hindu University (Institute of Technology) ( 2008-2010)

Member, International Committee of Inorganic Chemists of Asian Countries (2007-)

            Indian Member, Global Supramolecular Chemistry Network, Geneva (1996-2000)

Member of the Sectional Committee on Chemistry, Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore (2010-2012)

Member of the Sectional Committee in Chemical Sciences, Indian National Science Academy (2016-2018)

Reviewing Work for the Journals

Indian Journal of Chemistry–Section A, Journal of Chemical Sciences, Current Science, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research, Inorganic Chemistry, Crystal Growth & Design, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Organic Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Dalton Transactions, New Journal of Chemistry, Crystal Engineering Communication, RSC Advances, Journal of Molecular Catalysis,  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry – A European Journal, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, Journal of Luminescence, Journal of Fluorescence, Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Letters, Inorganica Chimica Acta, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Transition Metal Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure

 Honours

            CRSI Silver Medal, 2015

            Guest Editor, Themed Issue on Single-Crystal-to-Single Crystal Transformations, Cryst. Engg.Comm. (Royal Society of Chemistry)

            Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kharagpur (2013)        

P. Ray Memorial Award, Indian Chemical Society (2012)

Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professor (2011)     

                                       J.C. Bose National Fellowship ( 2010 )

                                       Member, Readers Panel for the Journal Nature (2009, 2010)

Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2009)

            Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1998)

            CRSI Bronze Medal, 2002

                                       Medal of Appreciation,  Korean Chemical Society (2001)

                                       Guest Editor, Special Issue on Water Clusters, Synthesis & Reactivity of   

                                       Inorganic Metallo-Organic and Nano Metal Chemistry

Ajit Memorial Award   IACS, Kolkata (1995)

            UNESCO Fellowship (One of seven from all developing countries) (1979- 1980)

 Thesis Guidance

            No. of students obtained Ph.D. Degree:         30

            No. of  Ph.D. students working:                     08

            No. of  M.Sc theses guided:                          71

Publications

            Research Papers :   Total of  259 till now

Seminars and Lectures

National:  Gave more than 200 invited talks in many Universities and Institutes in India

International: Gave more than 25 invited talks in many Universities in Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, China, Pakistan, Singapore and  USA