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New additional Main Editor Acta Crystallographica Section B
Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials is pleased to announce the appointment of a new additional Main Editor, Professor Ashwini Kumar Nangia.
Professor Nangia, based at the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, took over as the eleventh Director of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune on 29th February 2016.
He obtained his MSc in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur in 1983, and was awarded his PhD degree from Yale University in 1988. He worked in NOCIL Agrochemicals R&D Centre, Navi Mumbai, for a year before joining the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, as a Lecturer in 1989 where he rose to the position of Professor of Chemistry in 2001.
Professor Nangia established his research group working on the synthesis of natural products and enzyme inhibitors; and continued research in this field until 1995. He then shifted focus to supramolecular chemistry and then crystal engineering in the second half of the 1990s. He established an active research program in the emerging topics of host-guest inclusion compounds, hydrogen bonding, inter-halogen interactions, polymorphism and co-crystals, and made seminal contributions over the next decade. From 2005 to the current time, his research group continues to direct efforts on solid-state pharmaceutical co-crystals, polymorphs and eutectics with the idea of drug translation to make improved medicines.
Professor Nangia serves on the Editorial Board of various international journals in chemistry and crystallography, including CrystEngComm (RSC) and Crystal Growth & Design (ACS). He is on the Advisory Board of Chemistry - An Asian Journal (Wiley-VCH) and Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Wiley). He served as an Associate Editor of ACS journal Crystal Growth & Design (2008-2011). He was a member of INSA National Committee on Crystallography (2008-2015) and is currently on the Structural Chemistry Commission of IUCr. He has guided about 25 PhD scholars at the University of Hyderabad and has published over 240 research papers in international peer reviewed journals including several reviews and patents. He was awarded the Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Chemical Sciences, 2016) of INSA and the Professor L. K. Doraiswamy Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award for 2016 by IIChE.
You can see a list of IUCr papers published by Professor Ashwini Nangia here.