The RBS Group

Department of Chemistry,
3rd floor, Room No: 418-A
IIT Bombay,
Powai

Raghavan B. Sunoj

Convenor for High Performance Computing @ IITB, and Associate Faculty at Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS)
 
Contact Information
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400076
INDIA
 
Phone : 22-2576-7173
Fax :     22-2576-7152
 
e-mail : sunoj[at]chem.iitb.ac.in
rbsunoj[at]iitb.ac.in

Academic Background :

Degree University/Institute Year
M.Sc. University of Kerala 1996
   
Ph.D Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 2001*
   
*Advisor : Professor J. Chandrasekhar

Professional Experience :

Employment University/Institute Year
Post Doctoral Research Associate The Ohio State University, Columbus 2001-2003
   
Assistant Professor IIT Bombay 2003
   
Associate Professor IIT Bombay 2007
   
Professor IIT Bombay 2012
   

Awards and Distinctions :

National Award to Teachers (Higher Education), 2023.
 
Associate Editor, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, a leading journal published by the American Chemical Society (2023-till date).
 
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of 'Chem', a flagship journal published by Cell press (2023-till date).
 
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. 2021.
 
Member of the Editorial Board of 'Chemical Soceity Reviews', a flagship journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021-till date).
 
Prof. S.C. Bhattacharya Award for Excellence in Pure Sciences, IIT Bombay (2020).
 
Member of IUPAC Subcommittee on Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry, (2020-)
 
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences 2019.
 
Elected Member of Board of the Asia Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC), (2019-)
 
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of 'Chemical Science', a flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (June 2019-2021).
 
Editorial Board, 'WIREs Computational Molecular Science', a leading journal, published by Wiley (2018-2023).
 
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of 'ACS Catalysis', a leading journal, published by the American Chemical Society (2018-2022).
 
IIT Bombay Research Award, 2017.
 
Prof. S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2017.
 
Organizing Chair, 8th Asia Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, IIT Bombay, 2017.
 
Institute Chair Professor, June 2017- June 2020.; Class of 1998 Chair in Quantum Computing (July 2020-June 2023).
 
The 30th Annual Charles A. Coulson Lecture, The Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA (February, 2017).
 
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of 'Organic Letters', a leading journal published by the American Chemical Society (Since 2017).
 
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2017.
 
A.V. Ramarao Research Foundation Prize Lecture, Javaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, 2017.
 
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (leaders in the field), 2015.
 
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Resonance - Journal of Science Education, Published jointly by the Indian Academy of Sciences and Springer, 2013-2018.
 
Elected to the board of World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), 2014.
 
Chemical Research Society of India Bronze Medal (2014) in Recognition of the Contributions to Research in Chemistry.
 
A.V. Ramarao Research Foundation Young Scientist Award 2011.
 
Industrial Research and Consultancy (IRCC-IIT Bombay) Best Research Paper Award 2011
 
IIT Bombay 'Excellence in Teaching' Award 2009.
 
National Academy of Sciences India Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award 2008.
 
IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award 2006.
 
Associateship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) Bangalore, 2006.
 
Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientist, 2006.
 
Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Young Scientist Award 2006
 
Best PhD thesis award, 2001, Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
 
Gold Medallist in M. Sc. (Chemistry), 1996, University of Kerala.
 
K. R. Krishna Iyer Memorial Gold medal for outstanding academic achievements for the year 1996, University of Kerala.