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BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, Central Drug Research Institute, Banaras Hindu University, University of California Davis

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9244-8889
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Dr. Vinod K. Tiwari, born in Bihar, India in 1976, is associated with Banaras Hindu University since 2005, presently as Asociate Professor of Organic Chemistry. After his BSc (1996) from UP College, Varanasi and MSc (1998) from Banaras Hindu University, he worked on Carbohydrate based biodynamic agents at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India (Mentor: Dr. R. P. Tripathi) since 2000 and awarded PhD from JNU, New Delhi (2004). He has interest on Benzotriazole Methodology since 2005 through his Adjunct Postdoctoral research with Prof. A R Katritzky, Director at University of Florida, USA. He worked on ‘Chemoenzymatic synthesis of Complex Carbohydrate based Molecules’ as visiting post-doctoral fellow (Mentor: Prof. Xi Chen) at University of California, Davis, USA (2007) then on “'Novel Intramolecular Glycosidic Bond Formation Methodology’ as visiting Scientist with Prof. Richard R Schmidt, a renowned carbohydrate chemist and Professor at Universitat Konstanz, Germany. He was offered a Lecturership at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (2004-2005) before being appointed in BHU, India (2005-continued) where he started his independent research career. His research interest is focus on different aspect of Carbohydrate chemistry and organic synthesis; and teaching interest covers almost all branch of organic chemistry. He delivered numerous invited lectures at different university/institutes in India and abroad (over 130). He supervised eleven PhD thesis, 15 M.Sc. dissertation, and completed five major research projects from DST, UGC and CSIR. He accepted for the Editor Position for Journal “Trends Carbohydrate Res”, Opportunity, challenge and scope of Natural products in Medicinal Chemistry, Current Organic Chemistry, Letters in Organic Chemistry, and recently managed as Facilitator to publish special Arkivoc issue to honor Prof. Schmidt. He has contributed 126 publications in addition to 8 Patents and 14 invited book chapters of high repute (Elsevier, ACS, Wiley, Bentham, Springer etc).His published articles receiving good citations (over 4200 citation, h-index: 33) and his received many prestigious awards mainly Dr. D. S. Bhakuni Award, Indian Chemical Society (2004); Young Investigator Prize (2004); DST Fast Track Research for Young Scientist (2005), Most Cited Paper Award (2006); NESA Gold Medal (2010), Dr. Arvind Kumar Memorial Award, Indian Council of Chemist (2010), UP CST Young Scientist Award (2010), Prof. R C Shah Memorial Award, The Indian Science Congress Association(2011), Dr. Ghanshyam Srivastava Memorial award (2012), Indian Chemical Society, Chemical Research Society of India, Young Scientist Award-2013, 1st Dr. H C Srivastava Memorial Award, Association of Carbohydrate Chemist & Technologist of India (2012), 1st Tatya Scientist of The Year Award-2014, International Academy of Physical Sciences; Prof. A S R Anjaneyulu 60th Birthday Commemoration Award-2013, Indian Chemical Society, 1st Prof. N Roy Award for Excellence on Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry-2015, and recently Dr S. S. Despande National Award for high impact contribution in Chemistry, etc.

Employment

  • Universitat Konstanz, Germany Guest Scientist with Professor Richard R Schmidt
    2009 - 2009
  • University of California Davis Post Doctoral Fellow (PDF)
    2007 - 2008
  • BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
    2005 - Present
  • Bundelkhand University, Jhansi Lecturer of Organic Chemistry
    2004 - 2005
  • CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division Junior Research Fellow
    2000 - 2004

Education

  • Central Drug Research Institute PhD
    2000 - 2004
  • Banaras Hindu University MSc
    1996 - 1998

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Publications (206)