Dr. Srinivas Nerella 

Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Name:  Dr. Srinivas Nerella, M.Sc., M.Phil.,  Ph.D.

Present position:  Sr. Grade Assistant professor of Chemistry (Regular & Permanent position)

Institution:  Department of Chemistry, Government Degree College Wardhannapet Warangal, Kakatiya University, Telangana State, India-506370,Tel. +91-9849112427, +91-6300214768

E-mail: nerellasrinivas1@gmail.com              Orcid Id:  orcid.org/0000-0003-3750-8206

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Srinivas_Nerella

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=QPg-cB8AAAAJ&hl=en

Educational Qualifications

2020                 Ph.D.,         Organic Chemistry      Kakatiya  University, Warangal, India

Title: Synthesis and Biological evaluation of Podophyllotoxin and Lawsone congeners as potential Anticancer agents

2010-2012       M.Phil.,      Chemistry                    Kakatiya University, Warangal, India

Title: Hydrothiolation activity of some new bridging dinuclear rhodium(i) phosphine complexes with pendant polar groups

1995-1997        M.Sc.,        Chemistry                    Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

Academic Distinctions/Awards/Fellowships

•  Distinction at UG & PG level

• All India 35th Rank in CSIR-UGC NET Fellowship

• GATE Fellowship-Chemistry (95 percentile)

• UGC-NRC Faculty Visit Fellowship, University of Hyderabad, India

• INSA-Visiting Fellowship, IIT-Bombay, India

• UGC-Travel Award-To attend conference in Egypt

• CSIR Travel Grant -Invited speaker at GSFH-2023. Tainan city, Taiwan

• UGC-FDP Fellowship

Work experience

2002-2013 Junior Lecturer in Chemistry   Government Junior Colleges,   Telangana state, India

2013-2018 Assistant professor of Chemistry   Govt. Degree & PG College,       Jammikunta, Satavahana University,           Karimnagar, Telangana state, India

2018-2024 Assistant professor of Chemistry        Pingle Government College for Women,           (Sr. Gr.)          Hanamkonda, Kakatiya University,                   Warangal, Telangana state, India

2024-till date Assistant professor of Chemistry       Government Degree College,                                     (Sr. Gr.)         Wardhannapet, Kakatiya University,             Warangal, Telangana state, India

Research & Teaching Expertise/Skills

Independent researcher and Mentor for Undergraduate and Graduate students

Teaching Portfolio/Courses

• Basic organic chemistry

• Advanced organic chemistry

• Synthetic organic chemistry

• Natural product chemistry

Research Portfolio

• Synthetic Organic Chemistry

• Medicinal Chemistry

• Nature inspired analogues for anticancer screening

• Organo and Organometallic catalysis 

• Computational Chemistry 

• AI & ML based anticancer drug design and development from Natural products

Membership in Scientific Bodies

• Full Member, Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE)

• Community Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)

• Affiliate Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

• Member, International Association of  Dietetic Nutrition and Safety (IADNS)

Projects completed/ongoing

• Completed: (i) Principal Investigator:  UGC-project sanctioned by Government of India, entitled “Synthesis and biological evaluation of D-ring modified oxadiazolethione podophyllotoxin derivatives as tubulin inhibiting agents” (Project No. F. MRP- 5732/15)

• Ongoing: Co-Investigator: DST-SERB funded project, Government of India, entitled “Synthesis of small hybrid molecules from lawsone for anticancer evaluation”

Editorial Board Member

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Clinical Research

Peer reviewer 

• Peer reviewer for Journal of Natural Product Research, Taylor & Francis

• Peer Reviewer for Journal of Catalysis, Elsevier

• Peer Reviewer for Journal of Enzyme inhibition and Medicinal chemistry, Elsevier

• Peer Reviewer for Discover Pharmaceutical Sciences, Springer Nature 

• External Project evaluator for EU countries 

Academic assignments

• Coordinator, Research Center & Clustered Colleges, Pingle Government College for Women (UG & PG), Warangal, Kakatiya University, Telangana State, India

• Panel member & Resource person for Chemistry related Curriculum development, Syllabus framing and Question paper setting for numerous academic institutions and autonomous colleges.

• Member, Board of Studies for Universities and affiliated Colleges

Abroad Visits/Presentations 

• Invited Speaker at International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (9-ISPMF), 1 -6 August, 2025, Yinchuan  city, China]

• Invited Speaker at Global Summit of Food and Health (GSFH-2023), 22nd -24th Nov, 2023, Tainan city, Taiwan

• Short lecture at International Conference on Natural Products Utilization (ICNPU-2023), 30th May -2nd June, 2023, Varna, Bulgaria

• Speaker  at Fourth International Symposium on Phytochemicals in Medicine and Food (4-ISPMF), 30th -04th December, 2020, Northwest University, Xi’an, China

• Speaker at Egyptian Third International Conference in Chemistry, 16th to 19th November, 2015, Held at Hurghada, Egypt

Current Ph.D. students: 04

Project students: 10 (completed)   03 (pursuing)

Seminars /Workshops/Symposia conducted

Convener for  Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) sponsored National seminar on “The role of spectroscopy in characterization of small molecules (SCSM-2024)” 25th, October, 2024, Pingle Government College for Women, Hanamkonda, Telangana state, India

Convener for SERB, CSIR, INSA & TCSHE sponsored International Conference on Chemistry and Allied Sciences (ICCAS-2022), 25th -27th, August, 2022, Pingle Government College for Women, Hanamkonda, Kakatiya University, Telangana state, India

Convener for International symposium on Sustainable Chemistry, 2016, organized by Department of Chemistry, Government Degree College, Jammikunta, Satavahana University, India

Organizing Secretary for ‘Golden Jubilee Lecture Series’, organized by Department of Chemistry, Government Degree College, Jammikunta, Satavahana University, India

Co-convener for UGC sponsored National conference on ‘Green Chemistry’ organized by Department of Chemistry, Government Degree College, Jammikunta, Satavahana

University, India