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Dr. Naveen V. Kulkarni

Assistant Professor (Selection Grade)

Department of Chemistry

School of Physical Sciences

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala 690525

Cell: +917594072189

Email: dr.naveenvk@gmail.com                            naveenvkulkarni@am.amrita.edu

           

Dr. Naveen V. Kulkarni currently serves as Assistant Professor (Sl. Gr.) at the Department of Chemistry, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amritapuri. He completed his Masters degree in Physical Chemistry from Karnatak University Dharwad with first rank and received a gold medal (2006). After accepting the Nilekani Fellowship he joined Prof. V. K. Revankar at Department of Chemistry, Karnatak University Dharwad for his doctoral studies in the field of transition metal coordination chemistry (2006 – 2010). He has worked with renowned organometallic chemists, Prof. Moris S. Eisen (as a postdoc at Technion – Haifa, Israel 2010 – 2013), Prof. H. V. Rasika Dias (as a post doc research associate at  UTA – Arlington, Texas, United States 2013 - 2016), Prof. William D. Jones (as a scientist at University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States 2016 – 2017), and Prof. Stuart M. Clarke (as a visiting fellow at University of Cambridge, UK 2023) and contributed in development of several new valuable catalysts and methodologies.

Naveen joined the Department of Chemistry at Amrita in 2017. His current research interests include Coordination Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry.

Naveen is fond of reading books and writes Kannada poetry.

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AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS

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  • Chancellors colloborative research fellowship - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri (2023)

  • Dr. D. C. Pavate Memorial Fellowship to visit University of Cambridge (2022).  

  • Incentive Award from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri (2021).

  • TARE fellowship and research grant from SERB - India (2018-2021).

  • Fellowship by NSF (CENTC) to carry out research at University of Rochester, NY, United States (2016 – 2017).

  • Postdoctoral fellowship by NSF to carry out research at UT Arlington, United States (2013-2016).

  • The Schulich postdoctoral fellowship at Technion, Haifa, Israel (2010-2013).

  • ‘Nilekani Fellowship’ to pursue PhD studies at Karnatak University Dharwad (2006-2010).

  • Recipient of Prof. E. S. Jayadevappa’s 60th Birthday commemorative ‘Gold Medal’ for securing ‘I Rank’ in M. Sc. Physical chemistry in 2006.

  • ‘Best Student’ award from the KLE’s J. T. College, Gadag during Bachelor’s studies in 2004.

  • ‘Best Social Worker’ award from the NSS unit of K.L.E’s J. T. College, Gadag, for two conjugative years during Bachelor’s studies (2001 to 2004). 

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PROFESSIONAL ROLES

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  • Serving as an Editorial Board member for the journal Results in Engineering, Elsevier (2022 -    

  • Serving as a Guest Associate Editor for the collection 'Reaction Optimization and Sustainable Catalytic Pathways for Biofuel Production from Biomass' in Frontiers in Chemistry (2020 - 

  • Serving as a Guest Managing Editor for the collection 'ICAMSC-2020' in Materials Today: Proceedings (2020-2021).

  • Serving as a reviewer for Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Coordination Chemistry and Spectrochimica Acta Part – A. Rasayana Journal of Chemistry, Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Materials Today Proceedings. 

  • Serving as an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Chemical and Physical Sciences, India.

  • Editor of e-magazine Rasatantra, published from Department of Chemistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri.

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