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.