Dr.vinod Kumar Tiwari

Biography

Dr. Vinod K. Tiwari was born in Bihar, India in 1976. After his BSc (1996) from UP College, Varanasi and MSc (1998) from Banaras Hindu University, he worked on Carbohydrate based biodynamic agents under the guidance of Dr. R. P. Tripathi at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India since 2000 and awarded PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2004). He has interest on Benzotriazole Methodology since 2005 through his Adjunct Postdoctoral research with Prof. A. R. Katritzky, UF, USA. He worked on ?Chemoenzymatic synthesis of Complex Carbohydrate based Molecules? as visiting post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Xi Chen at University of California, Davis, USA (2007) and then on ?'Novel Intramolecular Glycosidic Bond Formation Methodology? as visiting Scientist with Prof. Dr. Richard R. Schmidt at Universitat Konstanz, Germany (2009). He was offered a Lecturership at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (2004-2005) before being appointed in BHU, India (2005-continued) where he started his independent research career. He has over 70 publication including 08 Patents of high national and international repute. His research received many prestigious awards mainly Dr. D. S. Bhakuni Award, Indian Chemical Society (2004); Young Investigator Prize (2004); DST Fast Track Research for Young Scientist (2005), Most Cited Paper Award (2006); Vidya Ratan Award and Gold Medal (2008), NESA Medal (2010), Dr Arvind Kumar Memorial Award (2010), UP CST Young Scientist Award (2010), Prof. R C Shah Memorial Award, Indian Science Congress (2011-12) etc. He successfully supervised for five PhD Thesis and six MSc project. At present the Group of two RA, Four PhD and two MSc students are working with dedication on different aspect of Carbohydrate Chemistry. He delivered numerous invited lectures at different university/institutes in India, USA, and Germany. He has wide experience in Editorial job for Book Review as well as Journal where recently he invited for the Editor Position for Journal .Trends Carbohydrate Res? and recently managing as a Facilitator to publish special ARKIVOC issue to honor Prof. Richard Schmidt. His ongoing research on novel synthetic methodology has been supported for grant-in-aid from DST (2005-2008), CSIR (2008-2011) and UGC, India (2009-2012).

Research Interest

Carbohydrate Chemistry