Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju

Gautam Desiraju is an Indian chemist who has contributed substantially to the themes of crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonding. He has authored books on these subjects. He has coauthored a textbook in crystal engineering . He is one of the most highly cited Indian scientists and has been recognised by awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis and the TWAS award in Chemistry. He served as President of the International Union of Crystallography for the triennium 20112014.

Gautam Desiraju was bornAugust 1952 in Madras, India. He had his schooling in Cathedral and John Connon Boys School in Bombay and obtained his B.Sc. from St. Xaviers College, Bombay. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign where he worked under the supervision of David Y. Curtin and Iain C. Paul. He worked between 1976 and 1978 in the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY. From 1978 to 1979 he was a research fellow in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He joined the University of Hyderabad in 1979 as a lecturer and was promoted as reader in 1984 and professor in 1990. He spent a year in the CRampD department of DuPont in Wilmington as a visiting scientist. Afteryears in the University of Hyderabad, he joined the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2009. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Communications. He is the imm

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