• Highly motivated and passionate researcher with a strong background in organic synthesis and drug discovery. More than 13 years of research experience in academic and industrial labs in India and abroad. • Experienced in multi-step organic synthesis and ability to work from milligram to multi-gram scale. • Extensive experience in the execution of multiple projects in organic synthesis with an emphasis on natural product total synthesis, target-oriented small molecule library generation, novel reaction methodology development, peptide synthesis, and analogue synthesis for medicinal chemistry optimization. • Experienced in process development and technology transfer. • Supervised, trained, and mentored graduate and undergraduate researchers at different positions, in the execution of synthetic and medicinal chemistry projects in compliance with safe laboratory practices. • Played the role of the lead synthetic chemist in multiple collaborative medicinal chemistry programs which resulted in 7 publications