June 2004 to Present: Sr. NRC Fellow:
US Army Natick Soldier RDEC: Synthesis of hole conducting materials for organic/inorganic hybrid heterojunction photovoltaic cells and flame retardant polymers for Army applications.

April 2000 to May 2004: Postdoctoral Research Associate:
Center for Advanced Materials, University of Massachusetts Lowell: Developing new molecular dyes for the photosensitization in nanocrystalline Titanium dioxide based Photovoltaic cells.

March 1998 to February 2000: Postdoctoral Research Associate:
Optoelectronics group, University of Durham, Durham, UK: Synthesis of Soluble chromophores and polymers for Polymeric Optical Fiber (POF) Networks

September 1992 to June 1997: PhD Research Fellow:
School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, India: The synthesis and characterization of a new class of organic materials for their use in nonlinear optical applications

Awards:

• Senior Research Associateship, National Research Council, June 2004-present

• Chartered Chemist, Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, 2002

• Gold Medal for securing University I rank in M.Sc., Osmania University, India, 1991

• Junior Research Fellow, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, 1992-1994

• Senior Research Fellow, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, 1994-1997

Affiliations:

• Member of Royal Society of Chemistry

• Member of American Chemical Society