Director, IDSS
Avinash Kumbhar obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1993 from University of Pune. He joined as Lecturer at Department of Chemistry, University of Pune (1991-2003). He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina, USA (1998-1999). He was promoted to Associate professor at University of Pune (2006-2009) and was selected as a Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellow at University of Houston, Texas, USA (2013-2014) he was promoted to Professor at same department (2009-2020). He is presently Senior Professor at the Department of Chemistry. He has guided 13 Ph.D students and 3 Postdoctoral fellows are working under his guidance. He has 78 publications to his credit with total citations 2552 and an h-index of 23.
Our research group activities are focused on design and synthesis of transition metal polypyridyl complexes, the metals such as Ru(II), Co(II/III), and V((III).The characterization of the metal polypyridyl complexes were carried out with the help of 1H, 13C, elemental analysis, HRMS/ESI-mass, UV-visible spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and single crystal X-ray crystallography etc. The thoroughly characterized complexes are used as biological probes for DNA-binding studies, DNA-condensation, non-viral gene delivery etc. Moreover, these complexes are also used for energy application such as catalysts for water splitting. Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) of Ni(II), Cu(II), Pb(II) and Cd(II) metal are being explored for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs).
