Group News

2025

  • September 2025: Ms. Kruti Paradkar won prize in 'Shabda Gyan Pratiyogita' held under 'Rajbhasha Hindi Pakhavada 2025'. Congragulations!
  • September 2025: Dr. Lavanya K. published her research article titled as 'Chitosan-derived carbon supported ruthenium catalyst for efficient hydrogenation of Levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone' in Sustainable Energy Fuels,RSC. Congratulations!
  • August 2025: Dr. Paresh Dhepe got promoted to the position of Chief Scientist. Congratulations to our Sir!!

2024

  • December 2024: Ms. Kruti Paradkar won 2nd Prize in Meme/Cartoon Competition on Gender Sensitivity held under 'Sexual Harassment at Workplace Prevention Week 2024' at CSIR-NCL. Congratulations!
  • November 2024: Mr. Tufeil Khan and Mr. Dipak Shikare published their research article Exploring Thermocatalytic Pyrolysis to Derive Sustainable Chemical Intermediates from Plastic Waste; Role of Temperature, Catalyst, and Reactor Conditions in Journal of the Indian Institute of Science. Congratulations to both the authors.
  • November 2024: Congratulations to Ms. Lavanya K. for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. She has been awarded Ph.D. degree by AcSIR, Ghaziabad, India.
  • November 2024: Mr. Akshay Kote received 3rd Prize in Quiz Competition held in Vigilance Awareness Week. Congratulations!
  • August 2024: Ms. Preeti Parmar has joined the group as a PhD scholar.Welcome to the group!
  • July 2024:  Ms. Lavanya K successfully submitted her PhD Thesis. Congratulations!
  • July 2024: Congratulations to Ms. Priya Lokhande for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. She has been awarded Ph.D. degree by AcSIR, Ghaziabad, India.
  • May 2024: Congratulations to Ms. Jyoti Kadam for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. She has been awarded Ph.D. degree by AcSIR, Ghaziabad, India.
  • May 2024: Ms. Lavanya K gave her PTOC presentation.
  • April 2024: Ms. Lavanya K has published her research article ' The Role of Nitrogen Doping in Modulating Ruthenium Nanocatalysts for Enhanced Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Medium in Chemistry of Materials, ACS. Congratulations to the authors.
  • March 2024: Ms. Lavanya K and Ms. Neha Ghosh published their critical review paper 'Shell waste valorization chemicals: methods and progress in Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article. Congratulations to the authors.
  • January 2024:  Ms. Harshada Shivtare and Ms. Shrushti Lonare joined the group as Project Associate-I. Welcome!

2023

  • December 2023:  Ms. Priya Lokhande successfully submitted her PhD Thesis. Congratulations!
  • December 2023:  Ms. Priya Lokhande received consolation prize for the Best Poster Award at the BASF Network for Asian Open Research (NAO) Family Day India 2023 held at the BASF Innovation Campus Mumbai. Congratulations!
  • November 2023:  Ms. Lavanya K received 2nd runner up Award for 3 minute thesis competition in 5th NCL RF Conference held at CSIR-NCL, Pune . Congratulations!
  • November 2023:  Ms. Jyoti Kadam successfully submitted her PhD Thesis.Congratulations!
  • October 2023:  Mr. Sameer Shaikh joined our Lab as PA, Welcome to the group..
  • October 2023:  Ms. Kruti Paradkar got 1st prize in Essay Writing in the Rajbhasha Hindi Pakhavada 2023. Mr. Dipak Shikare and Ms. Lavanya K received 'on the spot' prize in the GK Quiz Congratulations to all...
  • September 2023: Ms. Priya Lokhande published her work 'Selective and Robust Ru Catalyst for the Aqueous Phase Aerobic Oxidation of Furfural to 2-Furoic Acid'  in  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023. Congratulations to the authors.
  • September 2023:  Ms. Lavanya K received the award for the 'Best Paper in the Oral Presentation' at the International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2023 (SusChemE 2.0) held at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai from 14th-16th September 2023. Congratulations...
  • ​September 2023:  Mrs. Priya Lokhande gave her PTOC presentation.
  • August 2023: Mr. Jayprakash has been selected for PhD program at Ashoka University, Haryana. Congratulations...
  • July 2023: Mrs. Kruti Paradkar joined as Ph.D. student in our group, Welcome...
  • July 2023: Priya and kalyani published their work 'Industry-oriented method for the aqueous phase oxidation of crude 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA)' in RSC, New Journal of Chemistry. Congratulations to the authors.
  • May 2023:  Ms. jyoti Kadam gave her PTOC presentation.
  • March 2023:  Jyoti & Tufeil published their work "Designing an industrially viable bimetallic catalyst for the polyol synthesis" in RSC New Journal of Chemistry. Congratulations to the authors.
  • March 2023: Our Lab received the Best Safety Compliance Lab Award during the National safety week celebration 2023 held at CSIR-NCL. Kudos to the team...
  • March 2023: Mr. Akshay Kote Joined the group as Project Associate-I, Welcome...
  • February 2023: Dr. Sunita Singh got selected for the Research Associate position at HPCL, Bangalore. Congratulation!
  • January 2023: Mr. Waseem Shaikh joined the group as project associate-I and Mr. Ranjan Kumar joined the group as Project trainee. Welcome to you both.

2022

  • December 2022: Mrs. Priya Lokhande received the Best oral presentation price at the 3rd National Seminar on “Frontiers in Heterogeneous Catalysis (HETCAT-2022)” held at MS University, Vadodara in association with Catalysis Society of India during December 10-11, 2022. Congratulations!
  • September 2022: Mrs. Priya Lokhande Got 2nd prize in Poster Competition, Ms. Lavanya secured 3rd prize in GK Competition and Mr. Jayprakash received a consolation prize for poem writing. which was held on the occasion of Hindi Pakhwada Samaroh 2022 at CSIR-NCL, Congratulations...
  • September 2022: Congratulations to Mrs. Neha Ghosh for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. She has been awarded Ph.D. degree by AcSIR, Ghaziabad, India
  • August 2022: Mr. Deepak  and Mr. Leo Philip joined the group as Project Associate-I, Welcome to the group
  • August 2022: Dr. Sunita Singh joined the group as Project Associate-I, Welcome to the group
  • July 2022: Mr. Ankit, Mr. Rohit, Mr. Tufeil and Ms. Priya Lokhande participated in 'Get Set Start Up' Marathon 2022 organized by Venture Centre, Pune. Ankit won first prize for 3 km, Congratulations! 
  • July 2022: Mr. Sandip Lavare and Athira Murali joined the group as Project Associate-I, Welcome to the group
  • June 2022: Mr. Jayprakash Prajapati joined the group as Project associate-I, Welcome to the group
  • May 2022: Mrs. Neha Ghosh has submitted her Ph.D. Thesis to AcSIR, Congratulations...
  • January 2022: Mr. Akhilendra Mishrah received the prize for Hindi-speech competition
  • January 2022: Mr. Tufeil Khan joined as Ph.D. student (NCL-PA-PhD program)

2021

  • September 2021: Mr. Akhilendra Mishra has joined the group as Project Assistant
  • August 2021: Mr. Rohit Kumar Yadav has joined the group as Project Associate
  • April 2021: Mr. Dheerendra Singh has joined the Shell Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Banglore as Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • March 2021: Mr. Ankit S. Tiwari has joined the group as Project Assistant.
  • January 2021: Congratulations to Mr. Dheerendra Singh for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. He has been awarded Ph.D. degree by AcSIR, Ghaziabad, India

2020

  • December 2020: Ms. Neha Ghosh have been awarded 'Indian Chemical Society Research Excellence Award' for the poster presented in 57th Annual Convention of Chemists 2020 & International Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences’ organized virtually by the Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata during December 26-29, 2020
  • June 2020: A. K Deepa's Publication on "Lignin Depolymerization into Aromatic Monomers over Solid Acid Catalysts" (ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 1, 365–379- citations 144) has got listed in ACS catalysis highlights of most cited papers from around the globe: India in ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 12, 6786–6787 (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c02418). Congratulations to the authors......
  • June 2020: Mr. Dheerendra Singh Submitted the Ph.D. thesis successfully.
  • May 2020:  AGNIi (@agni_goi) Tweeted:  Dr. Paresh L. Dhepe, Senior Scientist, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune share insights about the Agri waste-derived alternative to Terephthalic acid in plastic synthesis & its benefits! https://twitter.com/agnii_goi/status/1263711581369561089?s=20
  • February 2020: Mr. Titto Sunil John got selected for the Ph.D. program at the University of Florida, USA
  • February 2020: Congratulations... to Mr. Manuraj K for receiving the best poster award on the occasion of "National Science Day", 2020 held at CSIR-NCL, Pune.
  • February 2020: Ms. Priya Lokhande got selected for the joint AcSIR-RMIT PhD program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

2019

  • December 2019 : Mr. Dheerendra Singh gave Pre-synopsis presentation on 27 December 2019
  • December 2019 : Mr. Shiv Kumar S S  joined as Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Govt. College Gohparu, M P
  • August 2019: Dr. Paresh L. Dhepe, Ms. Neha Gosh, Mr. Shiv, Ms. Lavanya, and Ms. Jyoti attended APCAT-8 held in Bangkok, Thailand on 4-7th January 2019. Dr.Paresh Dhepe has delivered a talk and Ms. Neha Ghosh, Ms. Lavanya and Ms. Jyoti presented posters.
  • July 2019 : Mr. Titto Sunil John has joined the group as PA.
  • July 2019: Congratulations to Dheerendra Singh, Priya Lokhande, Kalyani Sonone for getting third prize in poster competition by Merck "Curious minds"  held in IISER, Pune
  • March 2019 : Congratulations to Mr.Nilesh Tangale for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis.He has been awarded Ph.D. degree by AcSIR, New Delhi,India
  • Mr. Shivkumar singh Got 1st prize in General Knowledge Competition and secured 2nd prize in 'Lekhak evam Ghoshvakya Pratiyogita'  held on the occasion of Hindi Pakhwada Samaroh 2019