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Recipient of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards, Shri Vijay Kumar Saraswat is one of India's most gifted scientists with more than four decades of experience in several fields spanning both basic and applied sciences. He is currently a member of the NITI Aayog and is shouldering many responsibilities in Government and Academic Institutions. He is a rare combination of an innovator, technologist and visionary. It is a moment of great pleasure and honour for us to have him as Honorary/Distinguished Professor. Read More

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Recipient of the Padma Shri Award, Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar, is an extremely accomplished space scientist and engineer, with a distinguished career spanning more than four decades in ISRO (including the term as its chairman). His leadership roles in the satellite payload and application domains helped India become a leader in space research. He has led several esteemed space projects sponsored by India and other countries. He is currently a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. We are greatly fortunate to be associated with Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar as a Distinguished Professor. Read More

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Professor Dhananjai Pandey is an internationally renowned educator and researcher in the field of Materials Science and Technology. His professional career started in 1977 as a Faculty Member in BHU/ IIT (BHU) and he retired as Professor (HAG) in 2017 but continued as Institute Professor for another five years. He was the Coordinator (Head) of the School of Materials Science and Technology for about a decade and under his leadership, the School emerged as an Internationally reputed Centre of research and teaching in advanced functional materials with world class faculty and laboratories equipped with state of the art equipment for the synthesis, characterisation and measurement of various properties of a wide ranging materials from functional oxides and polymers to functional alloys, biopolymers, nanocrystalline powders of oxides, thin films etc. A new five-year Integrated dual degree program in Materials Science and Technology was also developed and successfully implemented during his tenure as Coordinator. Read More

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Peter Comba (born in 1953) obtained a diploma in chemistry and in chemical education from the ETH Zürich and a PhD from the Université de Neuchâtel with Werner Marty. He made preparative, structural and spectroscopic studies on transition metal hexamine cage compounds with Alan Sargeson at the Australian National University in Canberra and NMR studies on titanyl and decavanadate with André Merbach at the University of Lausanne before setting up his own research group at the University of Basel (1986-1992) and then in Heidelberg. He is interested in fundamental transition metal coordination chemistry, spectroscopy as well as theoretical and computational inorganic chemistry, with current projects in bioinorganic and medicinal inorganic chemistry (oxygen activation by high-valent nonheme iron compounds, Cu II chemistry of cyclic pseudo-octapeptides in cells, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, MRI contrast agents), molecular magnetism (theory, magnetism and spectroscopy of oligonuclear transition metal and lanthanide complexes) and molecular catalysis (CO2 reduction). He has had various administrative duties, including vice-rector of Heidelberg University, and currently is a member of the academic advisory counsel of Heidelberg University, of the executive board of the Max Planck School Matter to Life and of the industry on campus catalysis lab CaRLa. Read More