Prof. Gangadhar J. Sanjayan is a Chief Scientist and Professor of Chemistry at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He received his PhD from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests are in the area of molecular self-assembly, nature-inspired materials, smart/functional polymers and medicinal chemistry. Over the years, his group developed diverse classes of self-assembling systems with intriguing structural features and application scopes in polymer/material sciences. Sanjayan has published several seminal papers in prestigious journals such as the Journal of American Chemical Society, ChemComm and others and has several patents to his credit. He is a recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, among several other coveted awards.
In the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence project, Prof. Sanjayan is focusing on developing supramolecular polymers and bio-inspired materials carrying de novo designed self-assembling bifacial G-C nucleobase building blocks and investigating their structural features and properties. Supramolecular polymers as a class of structurally intricate macromolecules are growing in prominence, owing primarily to their immense potential in applied research and practical utility in everyday life.