Current Indian Science

Dr. Parthapratim Munshi is an acclaimed chemical scientist and crystallographer. After his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Western Australia. Subsequently, he received the prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship and worked at Nancy University, France. Prior to joining Shiv Nadar University (SNU), he worked as a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Currently, he is a full professor and head of the Chemistry Department at SNU. Dr. Munshi has published research papers extensively in journals published by IUCr, ACS, RSC and Wiley etc. In 2019, he was named as the Emerging Investigator in Crystal Growth & Design. In 2020, he was inducted as a member of the National Committee for IUCr and in 2021 as a member of the Commission on Quantum Crystallography of the IUCr. Very recently, he has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and also joined as a member of the advisory board of CrystEngComm - Royal Society of Chemistry Journal.

Dr. Christian Jelsch is the director of research at CNRS, Lorraine University, Nancy, France. Initially, he was trained in structural biology. Later, he expanded his research in the area of charge density and ultra-high resolution crystallography methodologies, applied notably to macromolecular crystallography. He is the main developer of software MoPro and ELMAM2 databank dedicated to charge density refinement and modelling. He has developed the contact enrichment ratio within MoProViewer software for statistical analysis of intermolecular interactions and enables pinpoint driving forces in crystal packing formation. Current research interests include molecular docking rescoring and interaction energy studies.

Dr. Susanta K. Nayak is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. He obtained his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (2010). He went to Centre for Nano Science and Technology @ Polimi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) & NFMLab-DCMIC "Giulio Natta" Politecnico di Milano, Italy to pursue his postdoctoral study. He was awarded with Marie Curie Research Fellow (IIF) to work at the Université de Rennes 1, France (2012-2014). His research group at VNIT mainly emphasizes on organic based molecules utilizing Crystal Engineering, Supramolecular chemistry, Liquid crystals for biological activity study as well as material application along with the establishment of Structure-Property relationship through experimental and computational analysis.

Dr. Venkatesha R. Hathwar is UGC-Assistant professor of physics in the School of Physical and Applied Sciences at Goa University, Goa. He received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Later he moved to the University of Augsburg, Germany and Aarhus University, Denmark for his postdoctoral research works. He was appointed as assistant professor of Overseas Education and Research Unit in the Faculty of Pure and Applied sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He received the ‘Rising star award’ from the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) in 2009. His research interests include quantum crystallography, crystal engineering, structural materials science, and photoluminescent materials. He has published several research papers in leading journals published by Nature, IUCr, ACS, RSC, Elsevier and Wiley.

Dr. Saraboji Kadhirvel received his PhD in Crystallography and Biophysics from the University of Madras (India) and continued his postdoctoral research at Lund University (Sweden). Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computational Sciences, Central University of Punjab, India. Before joining the Central University of Punjab, he served at SASTRA University as an Associate Professor. His research areas are Structural Biology, Macromolecular Crystallography, Protein Biophysics, Structural Bioinformatics, Structural & Functional genomics, and Sequence data analysis. He has published several research articles in reputed journals and serves as a reviewer of many scientific journals and is a life member of the Indian Biophysical Society and Indian Crystallographic Association.