Assistant Professor, Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity Educational Valley, Panchgaon, Gurgaon, Haryana
Dr. Gyaneshwar Kumar Rao
Dr. G. K. Rao, born in 1983 in Deoria, India, studied at St. Andrew College, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India, for his B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees. He completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at the Chemistry Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, under the mentorship of Prof. Ajai K. Singh. During his Ph.D. research, he studied the catalysis of C−C coupling reactions using chalcogen ligated palladium catalysts. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada since 2014-2017. At present, he is a faculty of Chemistry at Amity School of Applied Sciences.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2018: Invited talk on “Catalytic Generation of Hydrogen from Water: Toward Sustainable Energy” in an International Seminar on Green Chemistry Synthesis, Processing, and Devices organized by Department of Chemistry, VKS University, Ara, Bihar.
2018: Invited talk on “Base Metal Complexes of Neutral PN3P-Pincer Ligand for Clean Energy Applications” in an International Conference on Advances in Analytical Sciences organized by Indian Society of Analytical Scientists (ISAS) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun.
2017: “Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship” by MHRD, Government of India.
2013: Grant by DST under FAST Track Young Scientists program for a research project entitled “First and Second Generation Biaryl Based Organochalcogen Ligated Palladium for Catalysis of Organic Reactions”.
2012: Foreign travel grant by center for international co-operation in science (CICS) under international travel support (ITS) scheme for a poster presentation in “International Conference of Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC−2012)”, organized by IUPAC and University of Mauritius at Mauritius.
2012: Best poster presentation award in “International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC−2012)” organized by the University of Mauritius.
2012: “Flame of Jwalamukhi” award for outstanding contribution to Jwalamukhi Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
2011: Best poster award on National Science Day organized by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India on February 28, 2011.
2011: “High Impact Factor Journal” award by The Chemical Society, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
2009: Senior Research Fellowship awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
2007: Junior Research Fellow awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
2007: Qualified Joint CSIR UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility for Lectureship (LS)–National Eligibility Test (NET).
2006: Qualified Joint CSIR UGC Eligibility for Lectureship (LS)–National Eligibility Test (NET).
2005: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (All India Rank: 259).