Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Administrative Responsibility:
Associate Dean, Alumni Relations
Contact Details
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Vidya Vihar Pilani 333 031, Rajasthan (India)
Phone: 9950630310
About the Faculty
Dr. Rajeev Sakhuja joined Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the in March 2012. He holds Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of Delhi, Delhi, and his research interest lies in the areas of synthetic Organic Chemistry, Natural product and Medicinal Chemistry. He was promoted to the position of Associate Professor in 2018.
Dr. Sakhuja was working as Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Raymond G. Booth at Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, before joining BITS Pilani. Prior to that, he was a Post Doc. Assistant in the group of Alan R. Katritzky at Department of Chemistry, University of Florida. Dr. Sakhuja has about 4 years of research experience. He wanted to establish a research group at BITS-Pilani for which, the JRF/CSIR and JRF/UGC scholars can contact.