Dr Arvind Kumar
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.
