Girish Suresh Yedase

Thiruvananthapuram

Education

Ph.D - C-C bond formation reactions driven by visible light photocatalysis

IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

07.2025

Master of Science - Department of Organic Chemistry

Annasaheb Magar College, S.P.P University Pune.

08.2018

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

Sangola College, Solapur University, Solapur

05.2016

Skills

Synthesis, purification, and characterization of organic compounds
Experienced working with all the modern organic instruments such as GC-MS, FT-IR, ESI-MS, HRMS, UV-VIS, NMR, and spectrofluorometer
Advanced functioning software like ChemDraw, Origin, Topsin, and Mestre Nova

Experienced working with air-sensitive compounds and performing sensitive reactions in the glove box
Can work independently with a potential interest in designing and exploring puzzles in science
Good at logical analysis of the results and writing manuscripts

Websites

Languages known

English

Marathi

Hindi

References

Veera Reddy, Yatham, Associate Professor, reddy@iisertvm.ac.in, School of Chemistry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 695551

Accomplishments

Selected for Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF), Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, May 2021.
448th ranking GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) 2020 from all India.
14th rank in CSIR-UGC NET (LS) June 2019

Supervising and mentoring experience

2021-2024 Teaching assistant for the Organic Chemistry lab-II (CHY-212), Advanced Organic Chemistry (CHY-412), Physical Chemistry lab (CHY-222), and Major Organic Chemistry Lab (CHY-315).
Master thesis minor in chemistry 4CzIPN Photocatalyzed reductive coupling of aromatic aldehydes to diols by Maria John, July 2021.
Master thesis ‘Synthesis and characterization of various NHP Esters and Acrylamides’ by Dhananjay Nair, May 2023.
Master’s thesis ‘Synthesis of Styrene Derivatives’ by Shifana. Sinu. P. May 2023.

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