Administration
Prof. Bhalchandra Mahadeo Bhanage
Honorable Vice-Chancellor
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda &
Chairman, Steering Committee, Gujarat SET, Vadodara
BRIEF PROFILE
Prof. Bhanage obtained a Doctoral degree from the National Chemical Laboratory in 1995 and spent seven years at Tohoku University and Hokkaido University, Japan in various positions. He was working at the Institute of Chemical Technology as a Senior Professor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and there he was the Dean of Infrastructure and Campus Development during 2014-2021 and the Head of the Department of Chemistry during 2009-15 and 2021-2023.
Prof (Dr.) B.M. Bhanage has contributed to the area of Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Sustainability and Environmental Sciences. He has published more than 500 research papers in reputed international journals, 35 Book Chapters, and 34 patents. He has received more than 21500 citations with an h-index of 75 and an i10 index of 411. He has guided 57 doctoral students. He is a fellow of the Indian Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, Biotech Research Society of India, and Maharashtra Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Ashutosh V. Bedekar
Member Secretary, Gujarat SET, Vadodara & Professor
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
BRIEF PROFILE
Prof. Ashutosh Bedekar obtained his MSc in Organic Chemistry (1987) from the Department of Chemistry, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and PhD in Chemistry (1994), from Malti-Chem Research Center and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He cleared his CSIR-NET in 1989 in Chemical Sciences. He was awarded Monbusho Fellowship in 1994 (Kyoto University) and JSPS in 2000 (University of Shizuoka) by the Government of Japan for his postdoctoral studies. He also worked in Uppsala University, Sweden in 1995-96 for postdoctoral assignments. He was CSIR Pool Office (1996-99, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune) and Scientist Fellow (2002-03, CSMCRI, Bhavnagar). Prof Bedekar was a Visiting Scientist at Takasago Corporation, Hiratsuka (Tokyo) for two years in 2003-05.
His area of research is asymmetric synthesis, helically chiral molecules, catalysis, molecular recognition of chiral compounds etc. He has guided 13 PhDs, published 116 papers and 5 patents. He received Bronze Medal from Chemical Research Society of India in 2019. He has worked in the present institution as reader/associate professor since 2005, Professor since 2011 and as Head of the Department of Chemistry since October 2021. He served on the Senate of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from professor's constituency (2017-22) and as Director of Research and Development Cell of the university (2018-2025). He is a fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, Gujarat Science Academy since 2014 and member of National Academy of Sciences, India since 2019.