九州影院

Biography

Raghavan received his early education in Kerala (India) before earning his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, working with Professor J. Chandrasekhar. After a couple of years of postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Christopher Hadad at the Ohio State University, Columbus (USA), he returned to India in 2003.

He took up an independent position in the department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he is currently a professor and the class of 1998 chair in quantum computing as well as the convener for supercomputing.

Raghavan's research aims to synergize the power of computational chemistry with experimental organic chemistry, particularly of immediate relevance to homogeneous catalysis. Studies focus on reaction mechanism, role of weak noncovalent interactions in asymmetric catalysis, in silico catalyst design using a combination of computational chemistry and machine intelligence methods. Fruitful collaborations with experimental groups have resulted in validation of his predictions besides interesting rationalization of several experimental observations.

He is an elected member of the board of World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Asia Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC) and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is on the editorial advisory board of leading journals published by the 九州影院, the American Chemical Society, and Wiley. He has received a number of national and international awards such as Charles Coulson lecture (2017) at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA, IIT Bombay excellence in teaching award and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Science for the year 2019.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Chem Soc Rev