Prof.T Punniyamurthy

Professor T Punniyamurthy is Head of the Department of Chemistry and obtained Ph.D. in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur in 1995. He subsequently held postdoctoral positions at North Dakota State University, Kyushu University and Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier prior to joining at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2001. He is also visiting Professor at Oxford University, Kyushu University and the Scripps Research Institute San Diego. His research interests include C-H activation, stereoselective synthesis and heterocyclic chemistry. He has produced 21 Ph.D. scholars and 30 M.Sc. students with 130 publications having citations <6300 and h-index 42. He is a recipient of UKIERI Research Fellowship, JSPS Bridge Fellowship, JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship and CRSI Bronze medal. He is also an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Chemistry.
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