Solid Base Catalysts

Prof. K. K. Pant is currently the Director at IIT Roorkee (on deputation), before he served as the Dean Faculty at IIT Delhi. He is also the Petrotech (FIPI) Chair Professor, Adjunct faculty at University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Joint Faculty at CRDT IIT Delhi and Honorary Faculty at University of Queensland in Australia. He is among the leading academicians in India who is working on cutting edge and futuristic technologies of national and international importance like coal to methanol conversion, e-waste and plastic management, hydrogen generation, CO2 capture and conversion, biomass valorization, etc., using catalysis and reaction engineering.

Prof. Ramesh Chandra is Currently the Vice-Chancellor at Maharaja Surajmal Brij University, he served as Head of the Department of Chemistry at University of Delhi, Delhi. He is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London and an outstanding researcher in the field of Biomedical Sciences. He has also been Consultant and Advisor to the various multinational companies like Polaroid Corporation, USA; Diakron Pharmaceuticals, USA; HIKMA Pharmaceuticals-UK; Proviva Pharma Inc. Canada and Director, BIZ SHAKTI, USA etc and academic institutions in India.

Dr. Ravi Tomar is a SERB-TARE fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and also working as Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chandigarh University. His current research focus is on the synthesis of various materials, and ionic liquids and on the exploration of their applications in the various fields.