Short Biography

Dr. Kunal Roy is Professor & Ex-Head  in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (https://sites.google.com/site/kunalroyindia). He has been a recipient of Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (University of Manchester, 2007) and Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (University of Manchester, 2013) and a former visiting scientist of Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri" IRCCS, Milano. Italy. The field of his research interest is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) and Molecular Modeling with application in Drug Design, Property Modeling and Predictive Ecotoxicology. Dr. Roy has published more than 350 research articles (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4486-8074) in refereed journals (current SCOPUS h index 51; total citations till date more than 13500). He has also coauthored two QSAR related books (Academic Press and Springer), edited six QSAR books (Springer, Academic Press and IGI Global) and published more than ten book chapters. Dr. Roy is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Diversity (Springer Nature). Dr. Roy serves in the Editorial Boards of several International Journals including (1) European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Elsevier); (2) Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling (Elsevier); (3) Chemical Biology and Drug Design (Wiley); (4) Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (Informa). Apart from this, Prof. Roy is a regular reviewer for QSAR papers in the journals like Chemosphere (Elsevier), Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (Elsevier), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (ACS), ACS Omega (ACS),  RSC Advances (RSC), Molecular Informatics (Wiley), SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research (T&F), etc. Prof. Roy has been recipient of several awards including AICTE Career Award (2003-04), DST Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists (2005), Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Most Cited Paper 2003-2006, 2004-2007 and 2006-2009 Awards from Elsevier, The Netherlands, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters Most Cited Paper 2006-2009 Award from Elsevier, The Netherlands, Professor R. D. Desai 80th Birthday Commemoration Medal & Prize (2017) from Indian Chemical Society, etc. Prof. Roy has been a participant in the EU funded projects nanoBRIDGES and IONTOX apart from several national Government funded projects (UGC, AICTE, CSIR, ICMR, DBT, DAE). Prof. Roy has recently been placed in the list of the World's Top 2% science-wide author database (2022) (World rank 56 in the subfield of Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry) (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), "October 2023 data-update for Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", Elsevier Data Repository, V6, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.6).