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Dr. Nandkishor S. Chandan

Dr. Nandkishor S. Chandan, is Associate Professor, Vice Principal and Head Department of Chemistry, Siddharth College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Buddha Bhavan, Fort Mumbai, University of Mumbai. He obtained his D.Phill. (Ph.D.) degree from University of Oxford, England (St. Peter's College) in the year 2011 under the guidance of Prof. Mark Moloney at Chemistry Research Laboratory (CRL), Oxford on the topic “Novel Methodology for Synthesis of Trisubstituted Pyrrolidines; Application towards the Synthesis of Kaitocephalin”. The complete study course D.Phill. (Ph.D.) at Oxford University was sponsored by Government of India as National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) through the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. He has published many research papers in international and national journals in the area synthetic chemistry and developed many methodologies to get the five member heterocycles. He has attended many international conferences and represented his research work and he is also a member of Royal Society of Chemistry (Associate Member) AMRSC and the Indian Science Congress Association. He has also worked as Junior Research Fellow under the scholarship NET-JRFCSIR awarded at Department of Organic Chemistry Technology (OCT), National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in the year 2002. The author while studying M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry at Government Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati had cleared exams like NET-JRFCSIR, SET, GATE, NET-ARS-CSIR and stood 5th merit in M.Sc. at SGB University Amravati. Dr. N. S. Chandan has participated and delivered invited lectures at various national symposia and workshops for NET/SET exam. Dr N. S. Chandan is actively involved in post-graduate teaching in Mumbai University and affiliated institutes and colleges as well as in the other universities. As a social responsibility Dr. N. S. Chandan is a founder chairman of NGO called YES (Youth Empower and Social) Foundation through which he sponsors scholarships to the economically backward students and arranged many motivational speeches, career guidance workshops, medical heath check-up camps and parents' awareness camps at different districts of Maharashtra.