Dr.Surya Prakash Singh
IICT scientist selected for NASI Young Scientist Award

Hyderabad|India|August'2012: Dr.Surya Prakash Singh, Scientist at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) working in the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Division has been selected for NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award 2012 in the field of Chemical Sciences for his contribution in the area of solar cell research. This is the first time a scientist from CSIR-IICT bagged this prestigious award. This award is highly prestigious and is selected from very tough competitions from among several Indian citizens working in India and abroad who are below 35 years of age and working in the area of Chemical Sciences. The award has been bestowed to Dr.SP Singh on his contributions in the area of Chemical Sciences.


Dr.Singh is working as a scientist at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad. He studied Chemistry at the University of Allahabad and obtained his PhD in 2005.After working at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan as a post doctoral fellow he joined as an Assistant Professor at Osaka University in 2008. He worked as a researcher at photovoltaic Materials unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS),Tsukuba, Japan. He has been involved in novel C-C bond forming reactions and synthesis of New and Highly Efficient Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Organic-thin Film Solar Cells and published over 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and 5 patents,editor of two books and author of two book chapters. He is guest editor in chief for several international journals like advances in Optoelectronics, Journal of Nano Energy and Power Research etc.

-August'' 2012