Vr Choudhary

Biography

Vasant Ramchandran Choudhary earned his BSc and MSc Degrees from Poone University, Pune after which he joined the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune. There he worked as a CSIR Junior Research Fellow for his PhD under the supervision of Dr LK Doraiswamy in the area of Chemical Reaction Engineering. He received his PhD in 1972. After about 30 years of research at NCL, which spanned diverse areas such as heterogeneous catalysis, energy research, reaction engineering, etc., he retired as Director's Grade Scientist in 2003. Since then he has been working as a CSIR Emeritus Scientist at NCL. He was a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Fayetteville, USA in 1999 and at Hokaido University, Japan in 2003.

Research Interest

Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering