Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre - Career

Career

After returning to India, Gadre joined as a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry of University of Pune and became a Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1988. Since joining the University of Pune, Gadre's work has focused on the study of molecular scalar fields and their topographical characteristics. In 1985 he proposed a new maximum entropy principle which has been since investigated by other researchers. Gadre has been at the forefront of investigating chemical reactivity and weak interactions through the use of molecular electrostatics potentials and momentum densities. Gadre has also contributed to algorithms and codes for efficiently parallelizing quantum chemical ab inito calculations. Recently he has pioneered a technique called the Molecular Tailoring Approach that seeks to calculate accurate one-electron properties for large molecules by breaking down the molecules into fragments and then combining calculations on individual fragments. This approach is now extended to perform geometry optimization as well as Hessian (vibrational frequency) calculation of large molecules in an efficient manner even on a common personal computer.

In 1995 Professor Gadre founded the Interdisciplinary school of scientific computing at the University of Pune and has since served as its Director. He has authored and co-authored over 185 articles in high-impact journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Chemical Physics. He has mentored 17 Ph.D. students and 45 Masters degree students. Professor Gadre has also authored, co-authored several book chapters.

He is known for his contributions to the growth of computational technologies in Chemistry, Physics and scientific computing in India.

He moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India on July 22, 2010.