Pradeepkumar Jagadesan
The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Biography
Pradeepkumar Jagadesan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas-San Antonio, working under Professor Kirk Schanze in the area of conjugated polyelectrolytes and organic frameworks exhibiting non-linear optical properties. Dr. Jagadesan obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Miami (UM), Florida, where he developed his expertise in the area of supramolecular photochemistry under the supervision of Professor V. Ramamurthy. Later he moved to The Ohio State University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Professor Psaras Mcgrier, where he synthesized the first porous organic polymer that exhibited the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) luminescent property. He was recently awarded the prestigious “DST-INSPIRE Faculty award” by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. During his graduate studies he was awarded the “Outstanding Teaching Award” (2015), “Perpetually Outstanding Teaching Award”(2013) and “Lifetime Teaching Assistant Award”(2011) by the department of chemistry, UM.