Head of Department, Senior Lecturer, Inorganic

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.

Telephone: 868-662-2002 Ext. 83261

Email: arvind.kumar@sta.uwi.edu


Qualifications

  • Postdoc. Academia Sincia, Taiwan. 2004-2009
  • Postdoc. Rice University, USA. 2002-2003
  • Postdoc. IIT Bomaby, India. 2000-2002
  • Ph.D. Tripura University, India. 2002
  • M.Sc. Gorakhpur University, India.1995

Research Interests

  • Designing mostly 1st transition series metal complexes using ligands such as polypyridyl, hydrazones, Schiff bases, which are versatile and provide a rigid coordination geometry.
  • Developing metal catalyst of desired specific conversion such as conversion of CO2 to useful organic molecule, conversion of biomasses to energy efficient molecules.
  • Metal complexes are well known for their rich photophysical properties which can be tuned by modification of ligands attached to metals.
  • Interest lies in to use such metal complexes in developing (i) bioluminescent complexes for biomedical uses, (ii) conversion of vastly and freely available Solar energy to meet energy challenges.