Srivari Chandrasekhar
Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar is Chief Scientist at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) in Hyderabad, India. Dr. Chandrasekhar works in synthetic organic chemistry. His research focus is the synthesis of complex molecules from natural sources.
Chandrasekhar received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Osmania University, and pursued post-doctoral research at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA. He was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen where he worked on the synthesis of hybrid natural products with Prof. L. F. Tietze.
At IICT, Chandrasekhar was instrumental in setting up the state-of-the-art Molbank facility for the storage and retrieval of chemical samples for HT screening.
In 2021, Srivari Chandrasekhar was appointed the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, a post he demitted in 2023 to return to IICT.
Dr. Chandrasekhar is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy. Srivari Chandrasekhar was awarded the Infosys Prize 2014 in Physical Sciences for his diverse and notable contributions in synthetic organic chemistry and for devising innovative, practical approaches to pharmaceuticals of current interest to industry.