Education

  • Integrated M.Sc., 1977, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
  • Ph. D. (Chemistry), 1985, Indian Association for Cultivation of Science
  • Postdoctoral, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA; Alexander Von Humbolt Fellow, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Special Fellowship/Visiting Appointments

  • J C Bose National Fellowship of DST, India National Science Talent Search Scholar, 1972 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany from Nov '87 to March '88, Sept'91 to Dec'91 and April'94 to August '94, May, 2000 to July, 2000. Visiting Professor at the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Okazaki, Japan from March, 1997 to September, 1997 Visiting Scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, May 1995 "Dai-Ichi Karkaria Ltd" Endowment Fellow for 2004-05 by UICT, Mumbai

International Conferences Invitations

  • Delivered several (more than 100) invited lectures at several International and Indian Conferences. The most notable ones being the following:
    • Delivered Plenary talk in the Second international Conference on Experiment-Integrated Computational Chemistry of Multi-scale Fluidics, held in Sendai, Japan, 23-24 February, 2010
    • Invited Speaker in Indo-German conference on Dynamics of Excited States in Molecules, Dusseldorf, 2009 Invited Speaker in Indo-German conference on MCBR -2, Wildbad Kreuth, 2009
    • Invited speaker at International Workshop on Computational Material Science, Fuzhou, China, 2009
    • Invited speaker in International Conference on Simulations and Dynamics for Nanoscale and Biological Systems, Tokyo, 2009
    • Plenary lecture at the Sanibel Symposium, Georgia, USA, 2008
    • Invited speaker at QSCP XIII, Michigan, USA, 2008
    • Keynote speaker at CTTC V, Krakow, Poland, 2008
    • Invited speaker at International Workshop on Computational Material Science, Cairo, 2008
    • Invited lectures at two satellite conferences of the International Congress on Quantum Chemistry in 1994 and 1997.
    • Keynote lecture at the International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Attica, Greece, 2004
    • Invited lecture at the First Asian Pacific Conference on theoretical and computational Chemistry, Okazaki, Japan, 2004
    • Invited lectures at the density functional theory workshop of demon group in Paris, France, 2007, Dresden, Germany, 2005 and Calgary, 2006
    • Invited lecture International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE), Loutraki, Greece, 2005, Corfu, Greece, 2007
    • Delivered a keynote talk in Symposium on Advanced Methods of Quantum Chemistry and Physics, 2007 at Torun, Poland, , 2007 Plenary speaker at Sanibel Symposum, St. Augstine, 2003
    • Invited to act as Session Chair/ Discussion Leader in the Conference on Molecular Quantum Mechanics: Analytic Gradients and Beyond at Budapest, 30 May-3 June, 2007 and Invited as Chair in a workshop on coupled-cluster theory, a satellite meeting of the 9th International Congress on Quantum Chemistry, held at Cedar Key, Florida, USA in June 1997. Chaired several other sessions at International Conferences.
    • Delivered Prof. R. P. Mitra Memorial Lecture, Delhi University, 2010
    • Delivered Prof. N.R.Dhar Memorial Lecture, University of Allahabad, 2011
    • Delivered Dr. A V Rama Rao foundation lecture of JNCASR, Bangalore, 29th April 2013
    • Delivered Charles A. Coulson Lecture at the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, 2014.