Dr. Pratap BAHADUR Professor and Head Department of Chemistry, VN South Gujarat University,
Surat - 395007 India
Home Address : 202, Shubham Apartments 1, Near Taj Gateway Hotel, Parle Point, Surat-395007, INDIA.
Phone : 91-261-2222647, Mobiles: 09879132125
Email : pbahadur2002@yahoo.com
Pratap BAHADUR (b 15 Dec.1951), Ph.D, D.Sc has been Professor at VN
South Gujarat University, Surat
since 16th Aug.1988 and presently heads Chemistry Department After receiving his Ph.D degree from Agra
University, Agra
( Prof S N Srivastava) on emulsions followed by three years of post-doctoral
research on Surfactant and Colloidal dispersions, he went to erstwhile Czechoslovakia in 1978 to participate in the UNESCO
post-graduate course on Polymers for one year at the Institute
of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague ( Prof P Kraochvil
) and worked on Block Copolymer Micelles. On return he worked at Shri Ram
Institute of Industrial Research, New Delhi for
a few months and later joined as a Reader in Chemistry at the South Gujarat
University in June 1980
where he has been serving since then and was also the Head of Chemistry Department
between April 1981- December 1983.
Dr. Bahadur went to Mulhouse,
France (
Prof G Riess) in 1983 as a visiting scientist for one year to extend the work
on Block Copolymeric Micelles. He has been to Uppsala, Sweden
(Prof M Almgren) for four successive trips of 2-3 months each during 1988-1991
as Visiting Scientist from Swedish National Science Research Council and
initiated work on EO-PO based Block Copolymeric Surfactants. Dr. Bahadur
visited the erstwhile USSR
in 1989 under the Cultural Exchange Programme and lectured in universities at Kiev, Moscow and Leningrad. He spent 6
months in 1994 as a Fulbright Scholar in IUPUI, Indianapolis,
USA (Prof. Paul Dubin). He
availed a short term invitation fellowship of JSPS and was a visiting professor
at Saga University, Japan (Prof K Nakashima) in summer 2005. Here he gave
a short course on Polymers and Colloids and delivered talks at different
universities in Fukuoka, Tokyo,
Yokohama and Osaka. In December 2005, he went to Japan again and visited Saga, Nagoya anad Yokohama for acaademic discussions/seminars. In summer 2006, he visited Institute of Process
Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing ( Prof H J Liu ) for 40 days
under the TWAS-CAS visitorship. Here too he taught a short course on Colloids
and Polymers. He also gave research seminars and held discussions with
professors in universities at Shanghai, Wuchang
and Jinan. In
Feb. 2007, Dr Bahadur visited Australia
for ACIS meeting in Sydney and gave talks in the
University of Melbourne,
Australian Natl
University, Canberra
and at Ian Wark Reserach Centre Adelaide.In May 2007 Dr Bahadur went to Poland, and was invited as a plenary
speaker in SURUZ 2007 at Wroclaw. He
stayed at the Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Krakow
for a week and gave seminar and held discussions with professors there. In
October 2007, Dr Bahadur was invited to Asian Colloid Conference in Jinan
China and lectured at Inst
Process Engg, Beijing
and SCJ Co Shanghai. He spent summer 2008 in US and gave talks at few companies and Univ. In October-November 2008, Dr Bahadur visited Martin Luther University, Halle Wittenberg Germany (Prof Alfred Blume) as a scientist sponsored by DAAD and lectured at Max Planck Inst, Potsdam, Technical University Berlin, MLU Halle, ENS de Chimie Mulhouse France, Lulea Institute Technology Lulea, Sweden. He is offered a James Chair Professorship for six months at StFX University Antigonish, Canada.
Dr Bahadur has attended the international conferences at
Lyon (1984), Gainesville (1989,1995), Stanford
(1994) and Nagoya ( Dec 2005).besides several
national and international conferences in India and gave invited talks /acted
as a session chairman. He also gave seminars in Koln (Germany,1979), Basel
(Switzerland,1983), and Turku (Finland,1988).
During several such visits Dr. Bahadur maintained collaboration with his host
professors abroad and co-authored about 35 research papers with them.
Dr.Bahadur has published about 180 research papers in international
journals and guided 33 Ph.D students. Many of his students later worked
as post docs abroad and now hold key positions in Academia and Industries in India and other
countries.
Most of Dr Bahadur’s work concerns Surface, Colloid and Polymers
Science with special interest in Block Copolymers, Surfactants and Colloidal
Systems ( ISI Thomson's Total citations over 1800 and h-index 22). He has been the
Principal Investigator of several sponsored Research Projects from CSIR, UGC,
DST, IUC-DAEF and consultant to some MNCs. He has acted as resource person in
several National and International Conferences/Symposia/Workshops across the
globe and as referee for several journals. He has been on the editorial board of J
Surface Science & Technology.
Dr Bahadur has co-authored some books/monographs including :
1. BLOCK COPOLYMERS in Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering,.Wiley Publications, New York,
1985.
2. Textbook of
Chemistry,Vol 1 and Vol 2.Krishna Publications, Meerut , India
( 1994,1997)
3. Principles of
Polymer Science. Narosa Publishing House (India) and also from Alpha Science
(UK) and CRC Press (US) ( 2001, 2006)
His wife, Dr.Anita BAHADUR is a Zoologist/ Biochemist. He has two sons,
Prashant Bahadur ( MS Chem. Engg. from Texas,
now doing PhD in US ) and Sushant Bahadur ( B Tech
Electronics Engg from NIT Surat).
