Dr. NIDHI GOUR (PhD IIT Kanpur)

Dr. Nidhi Gour obtained her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from IIT Kanpur in 2010 under the kind supervision of Prof. Sandeep Verma. Her Ph.D. thesis was awarded with the second prize of Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Thesis Award. After two short post-doctoral stints at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, she joined the University of Geneva, Switzerland as post-doctoral fellow for two years and finally CSGI, University of Florence for one year. Thereafter she joined as an Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Advanced Research as full time Faculty in August 2016. In July 2019 she joined Indrashil University (IU) where she is currently working as Associate Professor.
Dr. Nidhi’s research is based on studying molecular self-assemblies and assessing its implications in biology and material science. She has received SERB extramural grant and SERB Power Grant. Her research as Faculty and main corresponding author has been published in reputed Q1 journals like Current opinion in Chemical Biology, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, ACS Applied Biomaterials, New Journal of Chemistry and Soft Matter. She is also serving as a reviewer for ACS, RSC, Elsevier and Springer Journals and serves as a reviewer for Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Grant. She has also served as Coordinator for national and international workshops and conferences like DST INSPIRE Science camp, IU webinars, GujCOST webinars and International e-conference.