Dr. Kamaljit Singh
Professor (Dr.) Kamaljit Singh received his PhD degree in Chemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India in 1989. He was a postdoctoral fellow for two years (1993-1994) at the National Institute of Organic Chemistry (CSIC), Madrid, working on carbohydrate chemistry. He has pursued varied research interests spanning from Synthetic Organic/Medicinal Chemistry (Antimalarials) to Chemistry of Materials (Organic Semiconductors, Nonlinear Optical Materials) and is the author of over 175 research papers (Scopus h index 40). He has authored several reviews and contributed invited book chapters in several books published by international (Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, American Chemical Society) publishing houses and has guided 24 Ph.D. scholars for Ph.D. degrees. In recognition to his contributions in Chemical Sciences, he was awarded a Bronze Medal by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), Bangalore in 2009. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, India and is also a recipient of the Professor K. Venkataraman endowment lecture award (2015) instituted by Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He was nominated by Indian National Science Academy and The Royal Society, London as a visiting scientist at University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, UK. Later on, he was selected as a visiting fellow by The British Council, UK to visit UMIST, UK where he undertook advanced research in Chemistry and Technology of a variety of organic Materials. He has been a Brain pool Visiting Fellow (2015) at Kangwon National University, South Korea. He was selected by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India for the Leadership in Academic Professions programme and visited Harvard University, USA in Harvard Graduate School of Education for a short stay. He has delivered several invited lectures in South Korea, Canada, UK, Spain, Turkey and several IITs/NIPER/IISER/Universities and institutes in India and abroad.