Akhilesh Kumar Verma
University of Delhi, India
Biography
Akhilesh Kumar Verma obtained his PhD degree in 2000 from the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India. He was a postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Alan R Katritzky at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, from 2001 to 2002, and with Prof. Richard C Larock at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, USA, from June 28, 2007 to August 31, 2008. He started his career as a Lecturer in 1998 at the Dr. B R Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research at the University of Delhi, India. He joined the Department of Chemistry University of Delhi in January 2009 as a Reader. He was appointed as Associate professor in 2010 and since 2013 he is Full Professor in the department. His research interests include developing new synthetic methodologies; heterocyclic synthesis using alkynes and designing of benzotriazole based novel ligands for copper and palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions.