Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre
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Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre (born 20 May 1950) is an Indian scientist working in computational quantum and theoretical chemistry.
Education and early work
Professor Gadre got his undergraduate and master's degrees at the
Career
After returning to India, Gadre joined as a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry of University of Pune and became a Professor of Physical Chemistry[1] in 1988. Since joining the University of Pune, Gadre's work has focused on the study of molecular scalar fields and their topographical characteristics. In 1985 he proposed a new maximum entropy principle which has been since investigated by other researchers. Gadre has been at the forefront of investigating chemical reactivity and weak interactions through the use of molecular electrostatics potentials and momentum densities. Gadre has also contributed to algorithms and codes for efficiently parallelising quantum chemical ab inito calculations. Recently he has pioneered a technique called the Molecular Tailoring Approach that seeks to calculate accurate one-electron properties for large molecules by breaking down the molecules into fragments and then combining calculations on individual fragments. This approach is now extended to perform geometry optimisation as well as Hessian (vibrational frequency) calculation of large molecules in an efficient manner even on a common personal computer.
In 1995 Professor Gadre founded the
He is known for his contributions to the growth of computational technologies in Chemistry, Physics and scientific computing in India.[7][8]
He moved to the
He returned to University of Pune in 2016 as a Distinguished Professor in Interdisciplinary School of Scientific Computing.
Awards and honours
For his contributions, Professor Gadre was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1992 and the Indian National Science Academy in 1996 and received the prestigious Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemistry (1993), awarded every year by the President of India to select scientist below the age of 40 who have made notable contributions to science. Since 2000 Professor Gadre has also been closely associated with the Indian and International Chemistry Olympiads.
Professor Gadre is a recipient of various awards and honours.
- "Young Scientist" Medal and Award in Chemical Science, of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, (1982).
- "Young Associate" of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, (1983)
- "INSA Research Fellow" ( 1988–1991 ).
- "UGC Research Scientitst – C" equivalent to full Professorship (1988).
- Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (1989).
- Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1990).
- The team of Professor S. R. Gadre and co-workers was awarded the Second 100 MFLOP PARAM Award by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune (1991).
- Life Member of The Agharkar Institute for the Cultivation of Science, Pune (1992).
- Golden Jubilee Visiting Fellowship of the Department of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai (1993).
- Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences (1993).
- Prin. V. K. Joag prize for excellence in teaching and research, University of Pune (1994).
- Honorary Senior Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore (1994).
- Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1995).
- Platinum Jubilee lecture at the Indian Science Congress, Pune, January (2000).
- J. C. Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi (2007).
References
- ^ "Faculty at the Department of Chemistry, University of Pune". Archived from the original on 17 June 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ Interconnection between electron densities in position and momentum spaces S. R. Gadre and R. K. Pathak Ed. D. Mukherjee [https://openlibrary.org/b/OL7446092M Aspects of Many Body Effects in Molecules and Extended Systems]. Vol. 50. Springer. 1989.
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- ^ Parallelization of two electron integrals in molecular orbital programs S. R. Gadre et al. Ed. Vijay bhatkar Advanced Computing. 1991. pp. 388–391, Tata McGraw Hill.
- ^ Molecular Recognition via Molecular Electrostatic Potential Topography, S. R. Gadre et al. Molecular Electrostatic Potential: Concepts and Applications. Vol. 3. 1996. pp. 219–522, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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- ^ Topography of Atomic and Molecular Scalar Fields, S. R. Gadre, Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends. Vol. 4. 1999. pp. 1–53, World Scientific, Singapore.
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- ^ Information Theoretical Approaches to Quantum Chemistry, Reviews of Modern Quantum Chemistry: A Celebration in the Contributions of Robert G. Parr Ed. K.D. Sen. Vol. 1. 2003. pp. 108–147, World Scientific, Singapore.
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