Academic Profile:

• Assistant Professor (Sept 2010 onwards), School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Raisan, Gandhinagar -382 007, Gujarat

• Postdoctoral Fellow (April 2008 - March 2010), Department of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. Research focus: “Development of New methods for donor and acceptors material for organic thin-film solar cell” (Advisor: Prof. Takeshi Toru) and “Synthesis of Fluorinated materials used in organic solar cell, biologically active Agrochemicals, catalysis etc” (Advisor: Prof. Norio Shibata)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2007- Nov 2007), Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Research focus: “Synthesis of Corannulene, Cucurbituril and its derivatives” (Advisor: Prof. Ehud Keinan)

• Ph.D. (Sept 2002 - Sept 2006), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Thesis title: “Development of new methods for Synthesis of Homoallylic amines, Homoallylic alcohols and b-haloamines: Extension to Asymmetric version.’’ (Advisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh)

• M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) (1995-1998) Purvanchal University, Uttar Pradesh, India

• B.Sc. (Chemistry) (1998-2000) Purvanchal University, Uttar Pradesh, India

Awards:

• “Young Scientist Award’’ under Fast track scheme from Department of Science & Technology (DST, Registration No. 199/2010) New Delhi for his project entitled “Synthesis of Sumanene and Corannulene derivative and its application in various fields of chemistry”. Total Cost of the Project is Rs 26, 00,000.00 for three years.

• Award of Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, 2005, New Delhi, India.

• ABVP Pratibha Samman,-Uttar Pradesh, 1998, Purvanchal University, Uttar Pradesh.

Research Areas and Activities:

• Organic thin-film Solar cell Technology, Synthesis of materials and its application in Engineering & Technology, Supramolecular and Catalysis.

• Synthesis of Sumanene and Corannulene derivative and its application in various fields of chemistry

• Organofluorine chemistry, Natural Product and analalogues Asymmetric synthesis, Synthetic methodology, Drug design etc.

Dr. Pandey is presently focusing his research directions in the areas of Organic thin-film Solar cell Technology, Synthesis of materials and its application in Engineering & Technology, Supramolecular and Catalysis. He also plans to explore some basic research in the areas of Organofluorine chemistry, Synthetic methodology, Asymmetric synthesis, Drug design, and Catalysis etc. He has active collaborations with scientists from several organizations such as Advanced Photovoltaic Center and Biomaterials Centre, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, Biosensors and bioelectronics IFM-Linkopings Universitet, Linkoping, Sweden etc.

Teaching Areas:
Advanced Organic chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Thermodynamic