About Shiv

Shiv Kumar, PhD, MRSC

Assistant Professor

(Principal Investigator)

Shiv was born and raised in Delhi, India, and received his BSc (Hons.) in Chemistry from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 2008. He then moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India where he completed his integrated doctorate degree under the supervision of Prof. Satish Patil. Here he extensively worked on fluorescent organic semiconductors for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and nitroaromatic sensing applications. After obtaining his Integrated Ph.D. degree in 2016, he then joined as a project scientist under the supervision of Prof. Monica Katiyar at the National Centre for Flexible Electronics, IIT Kanpur, India. With a recommendation for SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering to work with Prof. Raju Kumar Gupta at the same institute. The primary focus of his work was the synthesis of new hole transport materials as an alternative to spiro-OMeTAD for perovskite solar cells and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters for OLEDs. In 2017, Shiv secured the prestigious Marie-Sklødowska-Curie Individual Fellow (MCIF-Standard-Global) and moved to the University of St Andrews, UK to work with Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman in the School of Chemistry. While at St. Andrews, he was interested in the design and synthesis of bipolar host materials and through-space charge-transfer (TSCT-TADF) emitters for OLED and solid-state lighting (SSL) applications. In 2020, Shiv then moved to the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium to work with Prof. Franck Meyer at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Here he was interested in the alignment of conjugated polymers into supramolecular self-assembly via non-covalent interactions (e.g., halogen bonding) to improve their charge transport properties and stability in optoelectronic devices such as OFET. In August 2023, Shiv returned to India and joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Delhi. His current area of research focused on rational design, synthesis, and characterization of organic semiconductors to understand the underlying structure-property relationship and their potential applications in various optoelectronic devices.

EDUCATION

08/2008 - 03/2016 : Integrated PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India (Prof. Satish Patil)

07/2005 - 06/2008 : BSc (Chemistry), Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

WORK EXPERIENCE

08/2023 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India

06/2025 - 07/2025 : Visiting Research Fellow, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands (Mentor/Host: Prof. Yoeri van de Burgt)

10/2020 - 07/2023 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Mentor/Host: Prof. Franck Meyer)

07/2017 - 03/2020: Marie-Sklødowska-Curie Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK (Mentor/Host: Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman)

08/2016 - 04/2017: National Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Kanpur, India (Mentor/Host: Prof. Raju Kumar Gupta)

05/2016 - 07/2016: Project Scientist, National Center for Flexible Electronics (NCFlexe), IIT Kanpur, India (Mentor/Host: Prof. Monica Katiyar)

09/2014 - 10/2014: Visiting Researcher, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Mentor/Host: Prof. Chihaya Adachi)

02/2013 - 03/2013: Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (Mentor/Host: Prof. Sir Richard Friend)

11/2011 - 11/2011: Visiting Researcher, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy (Mentor/Host: Prof. Giuseppe Maruccio)

FELLOWSHIP/AWARD/RECOGNITION

RSC Researcher Collaborations Grant by RSC, UK 2024
Travel Credit for Scientific Meeting in Europe by F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium, 2023
Postdoctoral Fellowship by ULB, Belgium, 2020 & 2022
Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by European Commission, EU, 2017
INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship by DST, India, 2017 & 2019
SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship by SERB-DST, India, 2016
International Travel Grant by CSIR, India, 2015
GARP Travel Grant by Indian Institute of Science, India, 2015
Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by UGC, India, 2013
Junior Research Fellowship (SRF) by UGC, India, 2011
Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship, 2010
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2010
Scholarship for MS degree by Indian Institute of Science, India, 2008

INVITED SEMINARS

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Palakkad, India, November 27, 2021
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India, November 13, 2021
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, October 27, 2021
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India, March 28, 2019
University of Mons, Mons, Belgium, February 1, 2018

CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIUM/WORKSHOP/ORIENTATION etc.

Participated in the Faculty Induction/Orientation Programme for Faculty in Universities/Colleges/Institutions of Higher Education, February 21-March 19, 2024, organised by the Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, India (Online)
Participated as the organizer in the International Conference on Crossroads of Chemistry, Biology, & Atmospheric Environment: A Modern Prospective (ICCB-2024), February 26-28, 2024, held at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Participated in the workshop on Cyber Suraksha Day for all DU Fraternity, February 2, 2024, held at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Participated as organizer and invited speaker in the Special Lectures by Eminent Scientist and Brainstorming Session on Fostering Sustainable Catalysis-2024 (FSC-2024), January 19-20, 2024, held at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Participated in the NEP 2020 Orientation & Sensitization Programme, January 1-11, 2024, held at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Participated as the organizer and presented a poster at the 60th Annual Convention of Chemists 2023 (ACC 2023), December 20-21, 2023, held at the IIT Delhi Campus, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
Participated in one week Faculty Development Program on Communication and Presentation Skills, December 18-22, 2023, conducted by the ICT Academy, New Delhi, India
Attended the Inaugural Ceremony of Faculty Induction Programme NEP 2020: Pedagogical Imperatives of Higher Education, December 1, 2023, held at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Participated in the workshop on Procurement through Government e-Marketplace (GeM), November 17, 2023, organized by the Delhi University Computer Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Participated in the Thieme Organic Chemistry Symposium 2023, October 25, 2023, held at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Oral presentation at the 16th International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE 2023), July 3-7, 2023, held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Poster presentation at the 2023 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference, February 28, 2023, UK (Online Event on Twitter)
Poster presentation at the 2023 PhD Scientific Day (EDT-CHIMIE), January 27, 2023, held at the University of Mons, Belgium
Participated in the ScotChem Workshop – Working with Industry, September 6, 2019, held at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Oral presentation in EaStCHEM Conference for Early Career Researchers (ECECR), September 4, 2019, held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Poster presentation in the RSE-JSPS Symposium, May 3, 2018, held at Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Poster presentation in Marie-Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) General Assembly, February 2-3, 2018 held at KU Leuven,
Belgium
Participated in the 1st International TADF Symposium, September 6, 2017, held in Frankfurt, Germany
Participated in the 14th International Conference on Electrical and related properties of Organic Solids (ERPOS 2017), July 9-13, 2017, at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Oral presentation in the International Conference on Functional Materials ICFM 2016, Dec 12-14, held at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Poster presentation in 12th International Symposium Functional π-Electron Systems (FPi-12), July 19-24, 2015, held at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Poster presentation in Indo-US Symposium on Molecular Materials, 2013, held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Participated in the International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS-XX), 2011, held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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