Dr. Rakeshwar Bandichhor is working as a Vice President and Head of Chemistry, API-PR&D at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad, holds a doctorate in Chemistry from University of Lucknow/University of Regensburg, Germany and worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Regensburg, Germany, University of Pennsylvania and Texas A&M University. He has co-authored more than 200 papers including patents and book chapters published/accepted in various International Journals and contributed to more than 100 academic national and international conferences. He has won various awards and honors in his career; few of them are like Chairman Excellence Award 2010, Best Cost Leadership Award 2010, Anveshan Award 2011, ISCB Award of Apprecation for Industry Scientist 2012, Bharat Jyoti Award 2012, Roll of Honor Award by Green Chemistry area 2012, Travel grant award, UK 2013, Green Innovation Award 2013 by IGCW-2013, FRSC 2014, CChem 2014, Vice Chair, ACS-India Chapter (South India Section) onwards 2016, CRSI Council member onwards 2017, CRSI Bronze Medal 2018 etc. He was also nominated for Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award for the years 2017 and 2018. He has won STE Green Excellence Award in 2019.
He was invited as a Chief Guest in RSC-DST sponsored Green Chemistry workshop at Delhi University, 2011 and instrumental to organize Catalyst 2013 Symposium featuring Noble Laureate at Dr. Reddy’s. His interview was published in Nature Medicine 2013, 19, 1200-1203, in Process India (February issue 2014) and Business Standards (March 2014). He has also contributed in a concept paper “Reengineering Chemistry” by Tata Strategic Management Group and IGCW-2013.
He is also an industry advisor to Deccan and North India section of RSC. Recently, he became six sigma certified white belt, black belt and master black belt practitioner.
He has become a BoS (Board of Studies) and BoG (Board of Governors) members of Institute of Science and Engineering, Jawharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H) starting from December 2017. He is also serving as an International Advisory Board Member of European Journal of Organic Chemistry. He is a visiting faculty at Deaprtment of Chemistry, Delhi University, KNI Sultanpur, JNTUH campus, NIPER Hyderabad and IIT Bombay. He has recently become EAB member of OPRD which is a sythetic organic and process chemistry flagship Journal of ACS.