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ABOUT ME

Dr. Kamalesh Prasad who is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK was born on September 26, 1976 in the state Assam in India. At present he is working as a Principal Scientist in the Natural Products and green Chemistry Division of Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, a constituent laboratory under the aegis of CSIR, New Delhi, INDIA. He is also working as an Associate Professor in the Academy of Scientific and innovative research (AcSIR), a CSIR spinoff for human resource development and training.  Dr. Prasad is the recipient of CSIR-Young Scientist Award in 2010 for his significant contribution in the research done on polysaccharides and CSIR-Raman Research Fellowship in 2016. His current research interests are bio-mass processing using new solvent systems, polysaccharides and their modification and natural product chemistry. He has published 93 research articles along with 10 book chapters. He is also co-inventor of 12 international patents and he involves in technology development and their know how transfers to entrepreneurs. He has visited graduate school of engineering, Kagoshima University, Japan, University of Leicester, UK and INSA-Lyon, France and University of Aveiro, Portugal as visiting researcher.

EDUCATION

CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY

  • Currently engaged in research related to value addition of seaweed polysaccharide by means of their chemical/structural modifications towards producing functional new materials.

  • Development of improved downstream processing protocols/technologies for commercially important seaweed polysaccharides.    

  • Dissolution and derivatisation of biomacromolecules in neoteric benign solvents such as ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents.

  • Development of eco-friendly protocols for the extraction of biomolecules from bioresources.

Research Expertise

  • Chemical modification of polysaccharides

  • Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents : their syntheses, characterization and applications

  • Natural product Chemistry

  • Dissolution of biomacromolecules in ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents

  • Ph.D.(Chemistry), CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, 2005.

       Awarded by M.K. Bhavnagar University

  • M.Sc. (Chemistry with specialization in Organic Chemistry), Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, India (19797-1999)

  • B.Sc. [ Chemistry (Honors), Physics, Mathematics], Govt. Science College, Jorhat, Assam affiliated to  Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, India (1992-1996)

  • Intermediate. B.P.B.M. Higher Secondary School, Sonari, Charaideo, Assam, India (1990-1992)

  • S S C. Chala Pathar High School, Charaideo, Assam, India (1988-1990)

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