Dr. Prateek Pandya

Dr. Prateek Pandya earned an M.Sc. in Forensic Science in 2001, after which he went to the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow, a flagship institute of CSIR for a training program on various analytical instruments. In addition, he has also been trained at State Forensic Laboratory at Lucknow during 2002. He joined his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2003 and submitted his thesis in 2008 which was awarded in 2009. After PhD he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Dept. of Biotechnology Sponsored Research Project at DEI Dayalbagh, Agra. Later, he was awarded the UGC’s prestigious Dr D S Kothari postdoctoral fellowship in 2011 for which he joined the group of Prof. Neelima Gupta in Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rajasthan in 2012. He has visited several reputed organizations such as Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and CBMR-SGPGI Lucknow during and after his PhD duration for experimental and computational work. He has worked as Assistant Professor at Galgotias University for one year before moving to Amity University as an Assistant Professor of Forensic Science. He has to his credit, more than 30 International journal publications with an h-index of 10 and 50 Conference papers. He has written 5 book chapters. His area of research includes Drug-Receptor interactions, Computer Simulations, Molecular modeling, Forensic Toxicology, Forensic Serology and Drug Design.