Kumar Biradha
{{Short description|Indian chemistry professor (born 1968)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Kumar Biradha
| image = K. Biradha.tif
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|15 June 1968}}
| birth_place = India
| fields = Supramolecular chemistry, Crystal Engineering
| workplaces = Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
| alma_mater = D.N.R. College, Andhra University; University of Hyderabad; Saint Mary's University, Canada; Nagoya University.
| doctoral_advisor = Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju
| website = {{url|https://www.structuralchemistrylab.com/prof-kumar-biradha}}
| spouse = Satyasri Biradha
}}
Kumar Biradha is a researcher in the field of crystal engineering. He was born on 15 June 1968 in Relangi, Andhra Pradesh. He is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,"Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-Department of Chemistry">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/CY/faculty/cy-kbiradha#resp-tab1|title= Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-Department of Chemistry |access-date=11 June 2020|website=iitkgp.ac.in}} and a member of Editorial Advisory board of Crystal Growth & Design, an American Chemical Society Journal.{{cite journal |last=Rogers | first=Robin D. |journal=Crystal Growth & Design | title=Around the World in 2012 |date=2012 |issue=12 |pages=1–2|publisher=American Chemical Society| doi=10.1021/cg201654d |doi-access=free }}"Crystal Growth & Design">{{Cite web |url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/editors.html|title= K Biradha-Crystal Growth & Design |access-date=11 June 2020|website=pubs.acs.org}}
Biography
Biradha completed his secondary and higher secondary education from TMP High School, Relangi, and SVSS Govt. Junior College, Attili, respectively. He obtained his bachelor's degree from DNR College, Bhimavaram, and soon after that he joined University of Hyderabad to complete his M.Sc. in chemistry in 1991. Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. in structural chemistry from the same university under the guidance of Professor Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju in 1996.{{Cite web |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=818036|title=Chemistry Tree - Kumar Biradha |website=academictree.org |access-date=11 June 2020}} From there he moved to Canada to work as postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Mike Zaworotko at Saint Mary's University, Canada in 1997. There he worked on designing various clay-like and zeolite-like architectures by using strong hydrogen bonds and coordination bonds.{{Cite journal | pages = 374–384 | issue = 66 | year = 2003 | doi = 10.1039/b309903b | journal = CrystEngComm | title = Crystal engineering: from weak hydrogen bonds to co-ordination bonds | first1 = K. | last1 = Biradha| volume = 5 }} In the next year he received the prestigious JSPS fellowship to work with Makoto Fujita at IMS, Okazaki, Japan, and Nagoya University, where he expertized on coordination networks and dynamic porous coordination polymers.{{Cite journal | pages = 3395–3398 | issue = 18 | year = 2002 | pmid = 12298043 | doi = 10.1002/1521-3773(20020916)41:18<3395::aid-anie3395>3.0.co;2-d | journal = Angewandte Chemie International Edition | title = Crystal-to-Crystal Sliding of 2D Coordination Layers Triggered by Guest Exchange | last2 = Hongo | first1 = K. | first2 = Y. | last3 = Fujita | first3 = M. | last1 = Biradha| volume = 41 }}{{Cite journal | pages = 3392–3395 | issue = 18 | year = 2002 | pmid = 12298042 | doi = 10.1002/1521-3773(20020916)41:18<3392::aid-anie3392>3.0.co;2-v | journal = Angewandte Chemie International Edition | title = A Springlike 3D-coordination Network That Shrinks or Swells in a Crystal-To-Crystal Manner Upon Guest Removal or Readsorption | last2 = Fujita | first1 = K. | first2 = M. | last1 = Biradha| volume = 41 }} There he also appointed as an assistant professor and Researcher up to March 2002. Finally he moved back to India and joined the Chemistry Department at IIT Kharagpur as an assistant professor in 2002 and became a professor in 2014."Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-Department of Chemistry">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/CY/faculty/cy-kbiradha#resp-tab1|title= Profile at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-Department of Chemistry |website=iitkgp.ac.in}}
Scientific contributions
Biradha's research group aims at synthesizing multi-functional supramolecular materials with the use of distinct crystal engineering strategies.{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=KyFhOEgAAAAJ&hl=en |title= K Biradha - Google Scholar Citations|access-date=11 June 2020|website=scholar.google.com}} Web of Science has listed over 200 of the published scientific articles by him"Web of Science">{{Cite web |url=https://publons.com/researcher/2476305/kumar-biradha |title= Author details (Biradha, Kumar) |access-date= 11 June 2020}} on Cocrystal, gels, organic polymers, coordination polymers, metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic framework and their potential applications in the fields of electrocatalysis,{{Cite journal | year = 2020 | doi = 10.1039/D0CC04236F | journal = Chem. Commun. | title = Coordination Polymers as Heterogeneous Catalysts in Hydrogen Evolution and Oxygen Evolution Reactions | last2 = Goswami | first1 = K. | first2 = A. | last3 = Moi | first3 = R.| last1 = Biradha| volume = 56 | issue = 74 | pages = 10824–10842 | pmid = 32813757 | s2cid = 221200481 }} molecular sensing, solid state [2+2] photo-dimerizations and polymerizations,{{Cite journal | pages = 950–967 | issue = 3 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23223680 | doi = 10.1039/c2cs35343a | journal = Chemical Society Reviews | title = Crystal engineering of topochemical solid state reactions | last2 = Santra | first1 = K. | first2 = R. | last1 = Biradha| volume = 42 }} gas adsorption, inclusion materials, semiconductivity, luminescence, and isomeric hydrocarbon separation.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/CY/faculty/cy-kbiradha |title=Research statement |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur}} For such significant contributions in science, Biradha featured among 'Top 2% Global scientist' in a study by Stanford Analyst Group{{Cite journal | issue = 10 | year = 2020 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918 | journal = PLOS Biol | title = Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators | last2 = Boyack | first1 = JPA. | first2 = KW. | last3 = Baas | first3 = J.| last1 = Ioannidis| volume = 18 | pages = e3000918 | pmid = 33064726 | pmc = 7567353 | doi-access = free }} under the category of 'Inorganic and Nuclear chemistry'.{{Cite web |url=https://kgpchronicle.iitkgp.ac.in/iit-kharagpur-researchers-feature-among-worlds-top-2/?fbclid=IwAR0tSJtzphsueOdU2ByM0AdigybS-MV3fhj4tJbP70zd_4q7rbQ0JWPP-yA|title= IIT Kharagpur Researchers Feature Among World's Top 2% |access-date=11 June 2020 |website=The KGP Chronicle}}
Awards and honors
- Editorial Advisory board member of Crystal Growth & Design."Crystal Growth & Design">{{Cite web |url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/editors.html|title= K Biradha-Crystal Growth & Design |access-date=21 July 2022|website=pubs.acs.org}}
- Served as associate editor, Crystal Growth & Design, American Chemical Society 2012–2021.{{Cite web |url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/cgdefu/editors.html|title= K Biradha-Crystal Growth & Design |access-date=11 June 2020|website=pubs.acs.org}}
- Became Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010.
- Advisory board member of New Journal of Chemistry."New Journal of Chemistry">{{Cite web |url=https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/njc/|title= K Biradha-New Journal of Chemistry |access-date=11 June 2020|website=pubs.rsc.org}}
- Served as co-editor for Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications in 2011.
- He received the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award of the Elsevier in chemistry in the year 2006."NASI">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.nic.in/NASI%20-%20Scopus%20Winner%20Brochure%202014.pdf|title= Scopus Young Scientist Award-2006|website=nasi.nic.in}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.structuralchemistrylab.com Structural Chemistry Lab ]
- [http://www.chemistry.iitkgp.ac.in/professor/kbiradha Biradha's group] at IIT Kharagpur
- [http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/CY/faculty/cy-kbiradha Biradha's desk]
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