Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Guru Nanak dev University
Amritsar-143005
INDIA
email: tejwantsinghkang@gndu.ac.in
Research Interests
1. Ionic Liquids and Self-assembly
2. Ionic Liquids and Biopolymers: Thermodynamic and Spectroscopic Characterization
3. Design, Characterization and Self-assembly of Functional Ionic Liquids
4. Preparation, Characterization and Testing of Ion-Gels
5. Preparation and Characterization of Ionic Liquid Templated Nanomaterials
6. Design, Preparation and Characterization of Functional Microemulsions
Honors and Awards
1. Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in December 2005; Govt. of India.
2. Awarded Department of Science and Technology (DST) Junior Research Fellowship for working in DST sponsored project (August 2006-April 2009); Govt. of India.
3. Awarded Council of Scientific and Industrial research-Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR- SRF) (April 2009 – March 2011); Govt. of India.
4. Awarded FCT Portugal (Foundation of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science) Postdoctoral Fellowship in January 2011 for 3 years to work in the group of Prof. Isabel Marrucho at ITQB Portugal.
5. Awarded JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Japan Society for promotion of sciences) for 2 years in January 2011. (Presently availing the fellowship in the group of Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Moto-oka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN, 819-0395.
6. Awarded Prof. Shantilal Oswal Young Scientist award by Indian Thermodynamic Society for the year 2012 for the work in solution thermodynamics.
7. Worked as Visiting Researcher in the group of Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Moto-oka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN, 819-0395 from January 19, 2014 to February 1, 2014.
8. Worked as Visiting Researcher in the group of Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Moto-oka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN, 819-0395 from December 14, 2014 to December 27, 2014.
9. Awarded JSPS-DST Special Lecture Tour Program to Visit Kyushu University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and Tohoku University, Japan from November 29, 2015 to December 12, 2015.
National and International Collaborators
1. Dr. Arvind Kumar, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, INDIA
2. Prof. Nobuo Kimizuka, Kyushu University, JAPAN
3. Prof. Jianji Wang, Henan Normal University, CHINA