DEVENDRA DEO PATHAK

Professor Pathak was born at Kasimpur, Etah, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1961. He received his B. Sc. and M. Sc in Inorganic Chemistry from R. B. S. College, Agra University, Agra in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Delhi in 1986 in organometallic Chemistry. Later on, he moved to the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia to pursue a second Ph.D. He earned the second Ph. D. in Chemistry in 1990 from ANU. In 1991, he moved to the University of Sheffield, England, on a Postdoctoral assignment and continued there till 1996. He returned to India in 1996. After a short span at the Delhi University as a Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (CSIR), he joined the Indian School of Mines, presently Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad as Assistant Professor. He bagged the Indian National Science Academy (ISNSA), New Delhi, Visiting award in 2006-07 to visit the India