Professor
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Powai, Mumbai - 400 076, India.

Telephone : (+91-22) Off. 25767176
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E-mail: ravikanth@chem.iitb.ac.in
Date of Birth

EDUCATION

July 1986-Oct. 1988


July 1989-May 1994 		4th June, 1966


M.Sc (Inorganic Chemistry)
Osmania University, Hyderabad

Ph.D. student, Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Title of the Ph.D. Thesis


EMPLOYMENT

Jan. 1989 - June 1989


June 1994 - Aug. 1994


Sept. 1994 - Oct. 1995


Nov. 1995 - May 1996


June 1996 - May 1998


Aug. 1998 – March 1999



May 1999 - March 2003


April 2003 - February 2008


March 2008 onwards

Nonplanar Porphyrins and their Biological Relevance: Ground and Excited State Dynamics.




Project Associate, Department of Chemistry,
I.I.T. Kanpur.

Research Associate, Department of Physics,
I.I.T. Kanpur.

Visiting Fellow, Department of Chemical Sciences,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry,
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry,
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Synthesis and photodynamics of unsymmetrical multiporphyrin arrays
• Synthesis and characterization of porphyrins attached to organometallic systems
• Design and synthesis of porphyrin systems to study nonlinear optical properties.
• Use of porphyrin systems as catalyst in organic conversions and their potential as drugs in photodynamic therapy of cancer.
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• Light harvesting arrays
• Self assembling systems
• Synthesis of cation and anion sensors based on porphyrin systems

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship 1998

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH) 2005