University of Hyderabad: IoE Research Chair Professors appointed

Prof. Deevi Basavaiah, Prof. Agepati S. Raghavendra and Prof. K. Narayana Chandran are appointed as Institution of Eminence (IoE) Research Chair Professors

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has announced the appointment of three Institution of Eminence (IoE) Research Chair Professors – Prof. Deevi Basavaiah (Chemistry), Prof. Agepati S. Raghavendra (Life Sciences) and Prof. K. Narayana Chandran (Literary and Cultural Theory in the Department of English).

Selected by external experts, themselves highly distinguished academics and researchers, from the applications received from various Schools in the University, all three are already recognized world-wide for their pioneering and in all cases unique, research in their respective areas, the university said in a press release here on Saturday.

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UoH Vice Chancellor and Chairman – IoE project, Prof Appa Rao Podile said, “we honour ourselves by appointing such luminaries to these special positions. We have already, as a university, gained from their incredible profiles, we expect to amplify this gain. They are all three role models and aspirational figures for the university community, and will inspire colleagues and researchers to emulate their work ethic, commitment and brilliance.”

Prof.Basavaiah has been working on the Baylis-Hillman reaction at the University of Hyderabad from 1984 while Prof.Raghavendra is a high-profile researcher in the Department of Plant Sciences with significant contributions to a unique combination of plant biochemistry and plant metabolomics. Prof. Chandran is one of the world’s top scholars of modern, principally American, poetry, with several pioneering essays on Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, and others, the university added.

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