Molecular Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis

PD Dr. Rajendra Ghadwal

 

Molecular Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis Group

Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie (ACS)

Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld

E4-124, Universiätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld

E-mail: rghadwal@uni-bielefeld.de

 

CV (PDF)

 

Principal Investigator

Research Group Leader

Universität Bielefeld 

 

 

Research

 

Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis

Open-Shell Main-Group Chemistry (Radicals, Diradicals, Diradicaloids)

Ligand Design and Exploration

π-Conjugated Molecules and Molecular Materials

 

Scientific Career

 

11/2021-  : DFG-Heisenberg programm, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld.

09/ 2015- : Research Group Leader, Faculty of Chemistry, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld.

                      (Associated with the Group of  Professor Dr. Norbert Mitzel)

2011-2015: Junior Research Group Leader (Habilitand) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany).

                      (Associated with the Group of  Professor Dr. Dietmar Stalke)

2008-2010: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Scientific Co-worker), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany).

                 

 

Education

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2011-2016: venia legendi in Anorganischer Chemie (Habilitation), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany).

                 "Insights into Bond Activation and Functionalization with Compounds Featuring a Low-valent Boron, Carbon, or Silicon Atom"

                     (Mentor: Professor Dr. Dietmar Stalke)          

2008-2010: Post-doc, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany). (Mentor: Professor Dr. Herbert W. Roesky)              

2007-2008: Post-doc, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India).

2002-2006: PhD, University of Rajasthan Jaipur (India) (Mentors: Professor R. C. Mehrotra and Dr. A. Singh).

 

 

Awards & Fellowships

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DFG Heisenberg-Programm

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowships for experienced researchers (by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

(Host: Prof. Kit Cummins, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA)

Senior Research Fellowship by the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), New Delhi

Doctoral Research Fellowship by the University Grant Commission, New Delhi

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Membership

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)

Wöhler-Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie der GDCh

GDCh-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Phosphorchemie

GDCh-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fluorchemie

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)