Education and Professional Career
	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Ph. D. Chemistry (1985) A. M. University, Aligarh, India Assistant/Associate Professor of Chemistry (1984-1990) University of Bielefeld, Germany German Academic Exchange Fellow (1988-1990) Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1990-1994) Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA Assistant Professor of Chemistry (1994-2000) Associate Professor of Chemistry (2000-Present) Director, IIT’s Materials and Chemical Synthesis Program Associate Chairman, Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences