Bilra Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
About
Dr. Anil Kumar is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. He obtained his PhD degree from Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, India under the guidance of Professor SMS Chauhan in 2004. He was postdoctoral fellow at Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA in Prof. Keykavous Parang group during May 2004 to April 2006. He joined Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India as Assistant Professor in 2006 and currently he is Associate Professor of Chemistry at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. He has visited several times University of Rhode Island, Kingston during summer as visiting scientist in Prof. Parang’s laboratory.
Dr. Kumar has over 7 year of teaching and 9 years of research experience. He is recipient of Harrison McCain Foundation award from Acadia University, Canada for 2012. His research interest lies in development of reaction methodologies, green chemistry, ionic liquids and medicinal chemistry. He has published over 65 research papers in international journals of repute in the area of synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry and medicinal chemistry and contributed a book chapter. He has participated in several national and international symposia/conferences and delivered more than 10 invited lectures. He has guided one PhD student and currently supervising 6 PhD students.
He has completed one research project as PI and one as Co-PI sponsored by DST. Currently, he has two major projects from CSIR and UGC and one industry project from Ranbaxy in collaboration with Prof. Dalip Kumar. He has been on the editorial advisory board of The Open Catalysis Journal and also served as a reviewer for several journals. He is life member of Chemical Research Society of India, Banglore; Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, Luckhnow; and Indian Council of Chemists, Agra.