Virinder Parmar
The City University of New York, USA
Biography
Virinder S Parmar has completed his BSc Honors, MSc and PhD from the University of Delhi (India), and has worked for nearly 10 years as a Post-doctoral/Visiting Scientist at Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), NYU-Poly and MIT (USA); the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London, UK). He is currently a Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York (Brooklyn, New York, USA). He has been a Faculty at St. Stephen’s College and the University of Delhi (India) for 44 years, he was recently retired as Full Professor of Chemistry and has served as Head of the Department of Chemistry and as Chairman of the Board of Research Studies, and Provost of Gwyer Hall at this University. He has been an awardee of Medals for Excellence in Research from the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI, Bangalore) for the year 2001 and of the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB, Lucknow) for the year 2009. He has been a recipient of the Academic Staff Award from the EXPERTS II Consortium of the European Union (EU) in December 2012 and April 2013. His research interests include: Green/Sustainable Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Organic Synthesis, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Advanced Materials, Medicinal Chemistry, Biocatalysis and the Chemistry of Natural Products. He has delivered invited/plenary lectures at 147 international meetings and has given 398 research seminars at 293 Institutions in 31 countries across the globe. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, and has been on the Editorial Boards of the Journals: ChemSusChem, Mendeleev Communications, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Natural Product Communications, Arkivoc, Molecules and ISRN Medicinal Chemistry. He is a regular reviewer for several journals published by the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry (London), Elsevier & Wiley-VCH, etc. and also a member of the IUPAC’s Subcommittee on Biomolecular Chemistry and the Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD).