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Pradeep Mathur (born 1955) is an Indian organometallic and cluster chemist and the founder director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. He is a former professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and is known for his studies on mixed metal cluster compounds. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2000, for his contributions to chemical sciences. He has also been honoured by the award of an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Keele in the U.K.

Biography

Pradeep Mathur, born on 17 August 1955 in Teheran to Damyanti and Amrit Dayal. Mathur and his older brother, renowned physicist at TIFR, Deepak Mathur (married to Helen Mathur) were both brought up and educated in London whilst their father Amrit Dayal worked as a senior diplomatic official at the Indian High Commission in London and Accra. Mathur continued to live in England till he moved to Yale. He gained an honours degree at the University of North London in 1976 and secured a PhD from Keele University in 1981 before moving onto Yale University as a post-doctoral researcher. Mathur chose to move to India and joined Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1984 as a member of the faculty of chemistry where he held several positions before reaching the position of a professor and the head of the National Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Facility. When the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore was established in 2009, Mathur was appointed as its founder director. At the end of his first five-year term, his contract was extended for a second term and he continues to hold the position, simultaneously serving as a professor of the department of chemistry. He has been a visiting professor at University of Cambridge, University of Freiburg and University of Karlsruhe and has been associated with a number of scientific journals, viz. Organometallics, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry and Journal of Cluster Science as a member of their editorial boards.

Mathur is married to Vinita and the couple have two daughters, Nehika and Saloni.

Legacy and honors

Mathur's researches were focused on the organometallic chemistry of mixed metal cluster compounds and he has developed synthetic strategies for introducing chalcogen bridges. At IIT Mumbai, he handled projects related to the investigation of unusual metal mediated transformations and the interactions between the metal atoms and unsaturated organic species. He has published his researches by way of chapters contributed to books authored by others and over 180 peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate and Google Scholar, two online repositories have listed several of them. He has also guided 22 doctoral scholars in their studies.

Mathur was a Fulbright scholar in 1995 and the Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 1996. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2000. He has also been honoured with an honorary D.Sc. degree by the University of Keele in the U.K.

See also

• Cluster chemistry

References

1. ^ "Director". IIT Indore. 2016.
2. "Our Focus is Quality Faculty, Research Facility". Digital Learning. 17 December 2012.
3. ^ "Welcome to Prof. Pradeep Mathur's Homepage". IIT Mumbai. 2016.
4. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
5. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
6. "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
7. "We offer Holistic Education, Student-Centred Pedagogy - Interview with Prof Pradeep Mathur, Director IIT Indore". Careers 360. 13 July 2015.
8. "P. Mathur, Professor". IIT Mumbai. 2016.
9. "Faculty". IIT Indore. 2016.
10. "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
11. "Summary of Achievements" (PDF). Science and Engineering Research Board. 2016.
12. Advances in Organometallic Chemistry. Academic Press. 23 July 1997. pp. 243–. ISBN 978-0-08-058042-5.
13. "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
14. "On ResearchGate". 2016.
15. "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
16. "Prof. Pradeep Mathur". Web profile. Vidwan. 2016.
17. "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

External links

• "IIT- I director denies clearing air on anomaly allegations". The Free Press Journal. 19 March 2013.

• Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science
• 1955 births
• Indian Institute of Technology directors
• Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
• University of Madras alumni
• 20th-century Indian chemists
• Organometallic chemistry
• Alumni of Keele University
• Yale University alumni
• Academic staff of IIT Bombay
• Academics of the University of Cambridge
• Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
• Living people