Vinod K. Singh
| Vinod K. Singh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 9, 1959 Azamgarh Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | IISER Bhopal and IIT Kanpur |
| Notable awards |
Padma Shri (2014) |
Vinod K. Singh (Hindi: विनोद कुमार सिंह) was born on September 9, 1959, in Anantpur, a village in district Azamgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. He is the founder director of IISER Bhopal,[2] on lien from IIT Kanpur. He is a member of Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (SAC-PM). He is fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Singh's major research contributions[3] are in the areas of enantioselective reactions and total synthesis. His group has designed and developed several new chiral ligands and has achieved total synthesis of natural products using chiron approach.
Education
Singh had his early education from a primary school in his village area. He passed high school and intermediate from Wesley Inter College and B.Sc. from D. A. V College, both in Azamgarh. He did M.Sc. (Chemistry) from B.H.U [4] in 1980, he joined Malt-Chem Research Center Nandesari, Baroda, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in 1986 under the supervision of Dr. Sukh Dev. He spent two years (1985–1986) in Canada where he worked with Professor M.H. Benn (University of Calgary) and Professor J.P. Kutney (University of British Columbia). He moved to Professor E.J. Corey’s[5] group at Harvard University, US, in early 1987 and worked there for 3 years as a post-doctoral fellow.
Profession
Singh started his career as a senior scientist in Neurogen Corporation, Connecticut, US, in March 1990. In the mean time, he accepted an offer for a faculty position from IIT Kanpur[6] and joined the Institute in December 1990 as an assistant professor in Chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and professor in 2001. He came from IIT Kanpur to start IISERB (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal) in the year 2008 and currently he is working as the Director of IISER Bhopal.[7] At present, he is the chairman of the board of governors of NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research).[8] At present, he is also the director of School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Bhopal[9] from July 2014, after serving it before in October 2008 to July 2009.
Awards and honours
Singh's rigorous and outstanding research work paved way for him to receive honorable awards like:
- Padma Shri (2014)
- Umang Gupta Chair Professorship (June 1, 2007-to-date)
- Vigyan Ratna Award of U.P. (2006–2007)
- Ramanna Fellowship (2006)
- Bhagyatara Award (2006)
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2005)
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2004)[10]
- Professor R.D. Desai 80th Birthday Commemoration Award (2004)
- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2004)
- CRSI Bronze Medal (2003)
- Rajib Goyal Prize (2002)
- Professor N. S. Narsimhan Endowment Award (2002)
- Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award (1998)
External links
Sources
References
- ↑ http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/ssb2004.pdf
- ↑ http://www.iiserbhopal.ac.in
- ↑ http://home.iitk.ac.in/~vinodks/Publications.pdf
- ↑ http://www.bhu.ac.in/
- ↑ Elias James Corey
- ↑ http://www.iitk.ac.in/
- ↑ http://www.iiserbhopal.ac.in
- ↑ http://www.nitttrbhopal.org/au.html
- ↑ http://www.spabhopal.ac.in/home.html
- ↑ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology