Professor Brindaban C. Ranu received his early education in Calcutta University. In graduate studies he worked with Professor Ernest Wenkert at Rice University , Houston, Texas, USA and with Professor U.R. Ghatak at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta. He then took up a postdoctoral position at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA with Professor T. Hudlicky. He started independent research at the department of Organic Chemistry, IACS in 1985 as a Lecturer and was promoted to the post of Professor in 1996. He is currently chairing the organic chemistry department. He was a visiting Professor at Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain during 1995-96. During last few years Professor Ranu also visited several Universities and Institutes in USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Australia and delivered lectures there. He has been invited to write reviews for many journals including Tetrahedron, Synlett, Organic Preparations and Procedure International and European Journal of Organic Chemistry.
The Institute:
IACS is the oldest (established in 1876)
institute in India devoted to the pursuitof fundamental research
in the frontier areas of basic sciences. Professor C V Raman
worked at IACS for many years (1907- 1933) and it is here that
he discovered the celebrated Effect that bears his name
and for which he was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in
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