Education and Research Experience:

·        March 2016 – Present: Senior Principal Scientist (Scientist F)Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India.

·        March 2012- March 2016: Principal Scientist (Scientist E II), Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India.

·        March 2008 – March 2012: Sr. Scientist (Scientist E1), Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India. 

·        March 2003 – March 2008: Scientist (Scientist C), Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India.

·        March 1999 – March 2003: Scientist (Scientist B), Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India.     

·        JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow (June 2009 – May 2011): Graduate School of Human and Environmental Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

·        Ph. D. (2002-2007), Chemistry: SP Pune University, Pune, India.

·        M. Sc. (1995-1997), Chemistry: RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India.

·        B. Sc. (1992-1995), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics: RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India.


Research Interest:

o   Crystal Engineering and Supramolecular Chemistry

o   Group Transfer Reactions in Molecular Crystals

o   Polymorphism and Structural Phase Transition in Molecular Crystals

o   Drug Polymorphism and Pharmaceutical Multicomponent Crystals (cocrystals, salts, eutectic, hydrate, solvate)

o   Crystal Engineering of Fluorescent Materials for Multi-colour Emission

o   Spontaneous Resolution of Enantiomers by Crystallization

o   Chemical Crystallography and Evaluation of Intermolecular Interactions


v Research Papers: 295

v Patents: 6 (1 US patent granted, five filed)

v Conference Papers/Talk: 39

v Ph.D. Students Guided: 6

v MSc/MPharm Students Guided: 18