Pradeep Kumar

Biography

Pradeep Kumar was born and grew up in India. He received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Gorakhpur University Uttar Pradesh. In 1981, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from BHU (Varanasi), UP. Subsequently, he joined the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 1982. He is currently working as Chief Scientist & Head of the Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune. He visited Germany and worked in the group of Professor H. J. Bestmann at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg during 1988–1990 as DAAD Fellow and later as an Alexender von Humboldt Fellow with Professor Richard R. Schmidt at the University of Konstanz (1996–1997), with Professor Martin E.Maier at the University of Tubingen (2003) and with Professorn J. Rademann at the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Berlin (2006) and (2010). His research interests include development of new methodologies, asymmetric synthesis, total synthesis of biologically active natural products, and solid catalyst induced organic transformations.

Research Interest

Synthetic Organic Chemistry