Dr. V. Ganesan

Address :  74 Saket  Nagar Colony, Varanasi-221005

E-Mail : velganesh@yahoo.com, velgan@bhu.ac.in

Phone no. + 915422307321 Extn 111 (O),  09452072138 (BSNL GSM Mobile)

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 Details of Employment     

 May 2004 to till date                        Lecturer

Department of Chemistry

Faculty of Science

Banaras Hindu University

Varanasi-221 005

Academic records                 

1989-1992       : B.Sc. (Chemistry) Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

1992-1994       : M.Sc.(Chemistry) Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India

1995-2000       : Ph.D.(Chemistry) Madurai Kamaraj University,  Madurai, India

 

Fellowship and Honours  

March   1994       : Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (India), GATE-94.

March    1995      : Junior Research fellow DST scheme

October 1997     :  CSIR New Delhi -SRF

October 2000     :  CSIR-SRF New Delhi (Extended)

Foreign Visits

May 2001 to May 2002                      

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry

University of Houston, Houston, USA

October 2002 to September 2003  

Postdoctoral Fellow, LCPME, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France

Research Interests 

Modified electrodes- Electrocatalysis- Sol-gel modified electrodes- Biosensors- Self-assembled monolayers- Metal and semiconductor nanoparticles- Colloids and surface science- Chemiluminescence- Ultramicroelectrodes- Kinetics and mechanisms of electrochemical reactions- Interfacial electron transfer reactions- Photophysics- Photocatalysis- Supramolecular chemistry- Charge transfer complexes.

 Techniques Used

 Cyclic Voltammetry, Hydrodynamic Voltammetry, UV-Vis and UV-Vis-NIR Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Photolysis, Electron Spin Resonance, Infrared Spectroscopy, NMR and Surface characterisation techniques (Particle size analysis, BET, XPS, XRD, Raman, TEM).