Sr Gadre
Department of Chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Shridhar Ramchandra Gadre earned his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Pune followed by a PhD degree (1978) on electron momentum densities of molecules under the supervision of PT Narasimhan at IIT, Kanpur. He did post-doctoral research with Robert Parr at the University of North Carolina and Robert Matcha at the University of Houston (1979-80) on density functional theory and rigorous inequalities in quantum chemistry. After returning to India, Gadre joined the University of Pune as a Lecturer (1980) and subsequently became a Professor of Chemistry (1988). He served as the Head of the Department of Chemistry, Pune University (1996-99) and also founded the Interdisciplinary School of Scientific Computing at the University of Pune (1995). Presently he is continuing as its Director.
Research Interest
Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry
