About Me

I am working as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida. Earlier I worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, UPES, Dehradun, and as an Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida. I did my M.Sc. (Chemistry) from the University of Delhi and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, USA in Inorganic Chemistry. Later I worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, USA, for 2 years. I am a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK) and a life member of the Neutron Scattering Society of India. I have also worked as Junior Research Fellow and as a Summer Research Fellow, at the Indian Institute of Petroleum, CSIR, Dehradun.

My main area of research is Heterogeneous Catalysis, Nanomaterials synthesis and applications, and Functionalization of Metal Oxides. I am also working on the use of nanomaterials as chemical sensors.