Professor V.
Chandrasekhar was born in Calcutta on sixth November 1958.
He went to school at Hyderabad, Sunabeda and Visakhapatnam.
He did his B.Sc and M.Sc from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Subsequently he joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
from where he obtained his Ph.D in 1982. After a post-doctoral
stint at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1983-86),
he joined the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, Vadodara
where he worked for an year. Subsequently Chandrasekhar joined
the Department of Chemistry, IITK in July 1987 as an Assistant
Professor and has become a full Professor in 1995.
Chandrasekhar's research
interests are in the area of main-group organometallic chemistry.
The focus of research in his group is on the synthesis, structure
and reactivity of inorganic clusters, rings and polymers.
His group has contributed significantly to development
of new synthetic methodologies for the assembly of organotin
clusters, multi-metal assemblies, cages and supramolecules.
He has also pioneered the chemistry of new inorganic-cored
star-burst molecules and polymeric ligands. Currently his
group is focusing on the application of these diverse molecules
in catalysis, stabilization of nanoparticles and in the assembly
of new magnetic and optical materials.
Chandrasekhar has taught
many core and elective courses during his stint at IIT Kanpur.
He has developed several new courses including “Applications
of Modern Instrumental Methods” and “Macrocycles, Rings and
Polymers”.
Chandrasekhar has published
over 150 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and
several conference proceedings. He has authored a book entitled
“Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers” which was published
by Springer-Verlag in 2005. He has been a plenary and invited
speaker at several international conferences.
Chandrasekhar's work
has been recognized in the form of several national and international
awards. Some of the prominent ones are: Indian National Science
Academy Young Scientist Award (1989), Homi Bhaba Fellowship
(1998-2000), S. S. Bhatnagar Award (2003) and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel
Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
(2003). He has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy
of Sciences in 2003. |
