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Rakesh Kumar Sharma, PhD

Room 217, Department of Chemistry, 
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, INH 65 Nagaur Road, Karwar, Jodhpur. 342 037
Rajasthan. India

Tel.: +91 291 280 1303
email: rks@iitj.ac.in

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Education

PhD | January 2008

Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Thesis: Chiral Bisphosphinites for asymmetric catalysis

Advisor: Prof. Ashoka. G. Samuelson

Master of Science | July 1999

Organic Chemistry
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

Bachelor of Science | March 1997

Chemistry
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

2010 - present
2010 - present
Work Experience

Post Doctoral Researcher | Jan 2008 to May 2010

Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Advisor: Prof. T V RajanBabu

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Talent

Research Chemist | May 2000 to July 2001

Zydus Cadila Research Center

Work Experience

Associate Dean (Research and Development), IIT Jodhpur | Feb 2018 onwards

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Head, Department of Chemistry | Feb 2015 to Feb 2018

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Post Doctoral Researcher | Jan 2008 to May 2010

Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Advisor: Prof. T V RajanBabu

Research Assistant | July 2001 to July 2002

Silicates and Catalysis

Research Chemist | May 2000 to July 2001

Zydus Cadila Research Center, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

India.

Awards

Outstanding Research Award-2018 | 2018

1st Annual Transformational Leadership Summit & Awards

Best Faculty Award | 2014, 2022 ( For Teaching and Research)

IIT Jodhpur

National Eligibility Test | 2000, 2001 & 2002,

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Dehli, Government of India.

Rural talent search fellowship | 1988

Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India.

Select Professional Activities and Services

Reviewer for 

  • Nature Catalysis 

  • Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

  • J. Am. Chem. Soc.

  • ACS Central Science

  • ACS Omega

  • Energy & Fuels

  • Organometallics

  • Environmental Science & Technology

  • Chemical Communications

  • Materials Today

  • Nano Letters

  • ACS Catalysis

  • J. Material Chemistry A

  • Chemical Science

  • Green Chemistry

  • Advances in Catalysis

  • Nanoscale

  • J. Power Source

  • Material Research letters

  • Catalysis Science and Technology

  • ChemCatChem

  • Materials and Design 

  • Fuel

  • Chemistry - A European Journal

  • Desalination

  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

  • Chemosphere

  • Pure and Applied Chemistry

  • New Journal of Chemistry

  • RSC Adv

  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

  • Solid State Ionics

  • Catalysis Letters

  • J. Alloy and Compound

  • Macromolecular Chemistry

  • Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry

  • Materials letter

  • Journal of the Electrochemical Society

  • Ionics

  • Chirality

  • Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

  • Journal of Materials Science

  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society

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