Dr Akshai Kumar Assistant Professor

Akshai Kumar grew up in Mangalore, India, and obtained his B.Sc. in 2002 from Mangalore University. From the same university in 2004, he received his Masters degree in inorganic chemistry. He pursued his doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Ashoka G. Samuelson at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 2009. After a postdoctoral stint in the same laboratory, in October 2010, he joined the group of Prof. Andreas Terfort at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2012, he extended his postdoctoral activities and worked in the Goldman group at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. In 2015, he was appointed as Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research emphasis is on pincer−metal-catalyzed C−H and C−F activation reactions for the synthesis of fuel chemicals and heteroatom- doped π-conjugated organic materials.