Title: Director, SRIBS
Email: sureshch@gmail.com
Bio: Dr. Suresh C. H. completed his M.Sc. in Chemistry at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, in 1992. He pursued his Ph.D. in computational chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Shridhar R. Gadre at the University of Pune, earning his degree in 1999. As part of his doctoral research, he worked at Nagoya University, Japan, supported by a Monbusho scholarship. In 2000, he was awarded the prestigious JSPS post-doctoral fellowship to collaborate with Prof. Nobuaki Koga. Between 2002 and 2004, he held a post-doctoral position at Nagoya University funded by the Venture Business Laboratory. Later, he joined Prof. Mu-Hyun Baik’s group as a post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, during 2004–2005. Dr. Suresh began his career at CSIR-NIIST in 2005 as a scientist and progressed through the ranks, becoming a senior scientist in 2008, a principal scientist in 2011, a senior principal scientist in 2016, and a chief scientist in 2021. In 2008, he received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to collaborate with Prof. Gernot Frenking at Marburg University, Germany. His contributions to the field have been recognized with the CRSI Bronze Medal, and he was elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 2022. His research focuses on topology analysis of molecular electrostatic potential and its applications. With extensive expertise in electronic structure theory, homogeneous catalysis, and reaction mechanisms involving organic, organometallic, and inorganic systems, Dr. Suresh has published over 220 research papers in esteemed peer-reviewed journals, making significant contributions to the field of computational and theoretical chemistry.