Ph.D. Students
Dr. Digambar Kambale
M. Sc. (Org. Chemistry), PAH Solapur University, Solapur
Ph. D. student Period: 2014-2022.
Present Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. Mentor - Prof. Kwun-min Chen
E-mail: digambar.ncl@gmail.com
Dr. Sagar S. Thorat
M. Sc. (Org. Chemistry), PAH Solapur University, Solapur
Ph. D. student Period: 2015-2021.
Senior Project Associate (Mentor-Dr. Ravindar Kontham) at Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-NCL, Pune
Present Position: Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Mentor-Dr. Mukund Sibi) at Chemistry and Biochemistry Division, North Dakota State University, USA
E-mail: sagarthrt@gmail.com
Dr. Madhukar Pratapure
M. Sc. (Org. Chemistry), Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Ph. D. student Period: 2015-2023.
Present Position:
E-mail:
Dr. Priyanka Kataria
M. Sc. (Org. Chemistry), Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Ph. D. student Period: 2016-2023.
Present Position: Post Doctoral Researcher(Mentor - Dr. Camille Oger), University of Montpellier, Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Biomolecules Max Mousseron(IBMM), France
E-mail: priyanka.kataria1709@gmail.com
Dr. Balasaheb Borade
M. Sc. (Org. Chemistry), Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Ph. D. student Period: 2016-2023.
Present Position: Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Mentor -Dr. Qing Lin), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
E-mail: balasahebborade2@gmail.com
Dr. Ashwini Nakate
M. Sc. (Org. Chemistry), Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Ph. D. student Period: 2016-2023.
Present Position:
E-mail: nakatea1@gmail.com
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Rajesh Nomula
Postdoc student Period: 2016-2018.
Postdoc at University of Bordeaux with Prof. Y. Landais: 2018-2019
Present Position: Joined at Sai Life Sciences, Hyderabad.
E-mail:
Tare Fellow
Dr. Hemant Vilas Chavan (DST-SERB-TARE Fellow)
DST-SERB-TARE Fellow Period: 2018-2021.
Present Position: Assistant professor at Nya. Tatyasaheb Athalye Arts, Ved. S.R.Sapre Commerce & Vid. Dadasahb Pitre Science College Devrukh, Dist. Ratnagiri Maharashtra
E-mail: dspmasphemantdr@gmail.com, hemantchavan.sus@rediffmail.com
Research Associates
1. Dr. Sunil V. Gaikwad: Mr. Sunil joined Dr. Kontham's group in 2019 as a Research Associate on CSIR Inprotics project.
Project Assistants
1. Mr. Hemant Dusane: Mr. Hemant joined Dr. Kontham's group in 2019 as a project assistant.
He joined as a Research Associate E1, in Lupin research park, Pune.
2. Ms. Umeshwari Girase: Ms. Umeshwari joined Dr. Kontham's group in 2019 as a project assistant.
3. Mrs. Megha Palange: Mrs. Megha joined Dr. Kontham's group in 2017 as a project assistant. She worked on the total synthesis of biologically active natural products.
4. Ms. Mrudul Supekar: Ms. Mrudul joined Dr. Kontham's group in 2018 as a project assistant. She worked on the total synthesis of biologically active natural products.
5. Mr. Aakash D. Nidhankar: Mr. Aakash joined Dr. Kontham's group in 2016 as a project assistant. He worked on the total synthesis of biologically active natural products.
6. Mr. Yaswanth Matta : Mr. Yaswanth joined Dr. Ravindar Kontham's research group in Sep - 2022 as Project Associate - I. He worked on ' Discovery and Pre-Clinical Development of Antivirals for COVID -19 and other diseases.
7. Ms. Shweta Lande : Shweta joined Dr.Ravindar's research group in Aug-2023 as a project associate - I . She worked on Development of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients for Affordable Health Care [API-AHC] .
8. Ms. Rutuja Sankpal : Rutuja joined Dr. Ravindar Kontham group in April-2024 as Project Associate - I. She worked on Innovative Processes and Technologies for Crop Protection Chemicals.
9. Mr. Ravikumar : Ravikumar joined Dr. Ravindar Kontham group in April-2024 as Project Associate - I. He worked on Innovative Processes and Technologies for Crop Protection Chemicals.
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M. Sc. Project Trainees
1. Mr. Shashikant Dattatraya Choudhari: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2016) @ Savitribai Phule Pune University
2. Mr. Hemant Dusane: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2017) @ Savitribai Phule Pune University
3. Mr. Souvik Sadhu: M. Sc., Summer Internship (2017) @ Central University of Gujarat joined as a project fellow at IIP-Dehradun
4. Ms. Delna Johnson: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2018) @ Savitribai Phule Pune Universit
Joined as a PhD student at IIT-Gandhinagar under the guidence of Dr. Sivapriya Kirubakaran.
5. Mr. Udayan Chaudhury: M. Sc., Summer Internship (2018) @ Central University of Gujarat
6. Mr. Akshay Kumar: M. Sc., Summer Internship (2019) @ DAVV Indore
7. Mr. Prasad N. Mishra: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2019) @ SPPU, Pune
8. Ms. Rutuja P. Agarkar: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2019) @ SPPU, Pune
9. Mr. Arun. Ch: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2020) @ Krishna University, Andhara Pradesh
10. Ms. Vimala C: M. Sc., Project Trainee (2020) @ Calicut University, Kerala
11. Mr. Kiran V. Karande : M. Sc., Project Trainee (2023) @ SPPU, Pune
12. Ms. Rutuja Gaikwad : M. Sc., Project Trainee (2023) @ SPPU, Pune
BS-MS Summer Internship
1. Ms. Navyasree Venugopal: BS-MS summer internship (2016) @ IISER Thiruvananthapuram, currently working as a PhD student in Dr. Ullrich Jahn research group, Institute of Organic chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
