Goutam Brahmachari, PhD, D.Sc., FRSC, is a full professor (since July 2011, with more than 13 years in the post of professor) of organic chemistry at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. His group contributed significantly to developing effective and practical synthetic methods for carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation in constructing medicinally important heterocyclic scaffolds using C-H functionalization, cascade and crosscoupling approaches. Prof. Brahmachari also made outstanding contributions to natural product chemistry by unearthing the chemical profiles of several traditionally used Indian medicinal plants, studying their chemistry and biology, and thus presenting novel phytochemicals of interest. With about 26 years of experience in teaching and research, he has produced more than 270 scientific publications, including original research papers, review articles, books, and invited book chapters in synthetic organic chemistry and natural products chemistry. He has already authored/edited 27 books from the leading scientific publishers. He is the Series Editor of the Elsevier Book Series ‘Natural Product Drug Discovery’. Prof. Brahmachari is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a recipient of CRSI (Chemical Research Society of India) Bronze Medal-2021 (contributions to research in chemistry), Dr. Basudev Banerjee Memorial Award-2021 (Contribution in chemical sciences) from the Indian Chemical Society, INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Teachers Award-2019, Dr. Kalam Best Teaching Faculty Award-2017, and Academic Brilliance Award-2015 (Excellence in Research). Prof. Brahmachari was featured in the World Ranking of the Top 2% Scientists (Organic Chemistry Category) in 2020-23 (both in whole career and single years), in the AD Scientific World Ranking of Scientists -2022-2024, as the ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar-2022 (Lifetime, securing a position in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide)

• B.Sc (1990)

  Visva-Bharati

• M.Sc (1992)

  Visva-Bharati

• PhD (1997)

  Visva-Bharati

• DSc (2023)

  Visva-Bharati