Chandra Sourabh Azad was born and raised in Uttar Pradesh, India. Following his graduation from Hindu College Moradabad, associated with Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand (MJP) University, he earned a gold medal for his master’s degree in organic chemistry from the MJP Rohilkhand University campus. He completed his Ph.D. in 2014 at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow, India, under the guidance of Dr. Anil K Saxena. After this, he joined the GGS Indraprastha University New Delhi as a research associate with Prof Anudeep K Narula, Director of the Centre of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences (CEPS). In 2018, he moved to the People’s Republic of China as a post-doctoral fellow to join Prof Mark Olson’s group at Tianjin Unviersity. In September 2021, he joined Prof Fraser Stoddart’s research group at Northwestern University, USA, focusing on the synthesis and fluorescence characteristics of supramolecular self-assemblies and molecular machines. In 2023 he got the opportunity to join Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (TAMUCC), Texas, USA, as faculty of Chemistry. In Fall 2024, He joined the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University Kingsville (TAMUK) as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry.
AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
National/International:
• TJU/1000 Talent Foreign Expert Funded post-doctoral fellowship.
• Reviewer for the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Molecules, Pharmaceuticals, Chemistry and Biodiversity.
• Academic Editor of Journal of Chemistry, Hindawi.
• Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Organic Chemistry (specialty section of Frontiers in Chemistry).
• Guest Editor for the Molecules, Special Issue, “Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Heterocycles”
• Member of American Chemical Society (USA) 30793525
• Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) 725545
• Lifetime member of the Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists (INDIA) LM/238/14
MJP Rohilkhand University
• University Gold Medalist (MSc, 2006)
• Best oral presentation award in the annual departmental seminar (2006)
CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, India
• CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship (2008)
• CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship (2009)
• CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship (2011)
Tianjin University:
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd post-doctoral forum 2019
• Member of the SPST safety committee