Awards and Honours: Recepient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences, 2000 Recepient of JC Bose National Fellowship of DST, 2008 Recepient of Chemical Research Society of India Silver Medal, 2009 Elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 2003 Elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad, 1998 Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 1996 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011 Received Dr. Jagdish Shankar Memorial Lecture of the Indian National Science Academy, 2006 Recepient of Bimla Churn Law memorial Lecture Award of IACS, Kolkata, 2005 Dai-Ichi Karkaria Endowment Fellow of UICT, 2004-05 Recepient of the Chemical Research Society of India medal, 2000 Elected as a Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, 1994 Recepient of the NCL Research Foundation Scientist of the year (1999) award Recepient of the P.B.Gupta Memorial lecture Award of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta for 1993 Received Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Young Scientist award in Chemical Sciences for 1989 Received Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal for Young Scientist 1987 Received NCL Research Foundation Best Paper Award in Physical Sciences for the year 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 Delivered Prof. R. P. Mitra Memorial Lecture, Delhi University, 2010 Delivered Prof. N.R.Dhar Memorial Lecture, 2011, University of Allahabad, 2011 Recepient of "Science Councillor" Award -2011 of The Indian Society of Health Environment, Education & Research (ISHEER) Jodhpur centre.

 

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, Florida, 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.

Books Authored:

Co-authored a book “ Mathematics in Chemistry” with Dr. K V. Raman, Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, 2004.

Special Lectures:

Delivered Dai-Ichi Karkaria Endowment Lecture at UICT, Mumbai, 2005; Delivered Bimla Churn Law Memorial lecture at IACS, Kolkata, 2005.

Teaching and other academic interests:

I have been teaching basic quantum chemistry as well as Advanced Quantum Chemistry for M. Sc. students in Pune University as Adjunct faculty.
More recently, I have been teaching general physical chemistry, scientific computing and structure, bonding and quantum chemistry courses at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune for last four semesters as Adjunct Professor at under-graduate level. I have served as a member of the implementation committee of IISER, Pune and taken initiative in syllabus framing of the IISER for M Sc ( 5 years’ Integrated) course.
I have been Chairman, Student Academic Committee at NCL, Pune and in that capacity, I have started many academic initiatives for Ph. D. students at NCL.

Administrative role:

I was the Head of Physical and Materials Chemistry Division at NCL, Pune from December,2002 to November,2010. 

Presently I am the director of NCL,Pune.