41st IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for the Bureau
Prof. S. Chandrasekaran (India)
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Prof. Chandrasekaran
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Education and Career: Prof. Chandrasekaran earned his B.Sc.
(1965), M.Sc. (I rank, 1967), and Ph.D. (1972) degrees at Madras University
in Madras, India. His doctoral supervisor was Prof. S. Swaminathan in
the Department of Chemistry. He held postdoctoral fellowships/associateships
in the laboratories of Prof. E. J. Corey at Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA, USA (1973-75 and 1976-77) and Dr. J. A. Edwards at Syntex Research,
Palo Alto, CA, USA (1975-76). From 1978 to 1989, he worked in the department
of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, where
he served as Lecturer (1978-80), Assistant Professsor (1981-85), and
Professor (1985-89). He has been a visiting professor at Australian
National University, Canberra (1985); University of Karlsruhe, Germany
(1987); RWTH, Aachen, Germany (1992); and University Paris Sud, France
(1998). Prof. Chandrasekaran is currently Amrut Mody Chair Professor
of Chemistry and Chairman of the department of organic chemistry at
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has published
over 150 research papers in internatinally reputed journals.Over the
years he has supervised 19 Ph.D , 40 M.Sc students and 30 postdoctoral
fellows. He is a consultant for a number of fine chemical and pharmaceutical
industries.
Research Interests: Prof. Chandrasekaran's research has been
concerned with development of new synthetic methodology, synthesis of
natural products, organometallic chemistry, study of reaction mechanisms,
and organic materials.
Offices and Assignments: Prof. Chandrasekaran has served as:
Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Chemical
Sciences, 1991-present); Member, Sectional Committee, Chemistry, Indian
Academy of Sciences (1991-98); Editor, 10th International Conference
on Organic Synthesis, Bangalore (1994); Member, Editorial Board, Indian
Journal of Chemistry (1995-present); Member, Program Advisory Committee
in Organic Chemistry, Department of Science and Technology (1995-present);
Member, Research Committee on Chemistry and Technology, Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR, 1995-present); Member, Council of Indian
National Science Academy (1998-2000); and Convenor, National Symposium
in Chemistry, Bangalore (1999). He also sits as a member on the research
councils of a number of CSIR laboratories and as a member on the boards
of studies of a number of universities in India. Prof. Chandrasekaran
has delivered more than 150 invited lectures and seminars at various
national and international meetings, universities, and research institutions
in India and overseas.
IUPAC Activities: Prof. Chandrasekaran served on the IUPAC Committee
on Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry (1993-95) and is currently on India's
IUPAC National Committee (1997-2000).
Awards: Prof. Chandrasekaran received the Basudev Banerji Medal
and Prize from the Indian Chemical Society in 1988 and the Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize from CSIR in 1989. He was Prof. A. B. Kulkarni Endowment
Lecturer at the University of Bombay in 1992, Prof. N. Venkatsubramanian
Endowment Lecturer at the University of Madras in 1993, Prof. T. R.
Seshadri Memorial Lecturer at Delhi University in 1998, and Prof. Siddappa
60th Birthday Commemoration Lecturer at Dharward University in 1999.
Prof. Chandrasekaran was appointed Research Fellow of the Indian National
Science Academy (1985-87), Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
(1989), and Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1992). Professor
O.P.Vig Endowment Lecturer, Panjab University in 2000; Jawaharlal Nehru
Birth Centenary Lecturer of the Indian National Science Academy in 2001;
Honaray Professor of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research, Bangalore (2000-present); Fellow of the Third World Academy
of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, 2000.
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