**Pankaj Sharma**

Pankaj Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, INDIA.

He has been carrying out research in multidisciplinary area of chemistry like Drug chemistry, Removal of Genotoxic Impurities from API, Energy storage materials, Mesoporous materials, Ionic Liquids, Carbon dioxide Capture and Sequestration, Green Chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis.

Till now he has published 19 peer reviewed SCI and SCIE papers. In addition to this, he 01 Book chapter in Elsevier and he is Editor of 01 Book. He is guest editor of 04 MDPI journals. He has been granted 02 patents also, one Korean and one US patent. His h index is 12 and i 10 index is 11.

He evaluated 03 Ph. D. thesis as Indian Referee and took the Final Ph. D defense Viva Voce of 02 students. He is guiding 01 Ph. D student and 04 MSc. Final students for their dissertation project. 20 MSc. Final students have completed their dissertation project under him.

Before Ph.D., he acquired the skills of a researcher by working in the India's most advanced CSIR group of laboratories like Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) and Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI). But his research skills achieved a new height by working with his Korean mentors, Dr. Il Hyun Baek at Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Prof. Chang Sik Ha at Pusan National University (PNU) and Prof. Jae Won Lee at Dankook University (DU) in Republic of Korea respectively in their well established and highly advanced laboratory during his postdoctoral experience.
