Who am I?Link
Dr. K. R. Justin Thomas graduated (1990) from The American College at Madurai with a master degree (M.Sc.) in Chemistry. Then he went on to do research in chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur with a specialization in inorganic heterocycles. After gaining Ph.D. (1995), he joined the Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility (SAIF) at IIT Madras to implement a DST sponsored young scientist scheme (1996-1997). After two years stay at IIT Madras he moved to Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei to take up a post-doctoral assignment. He served five years (1997-2003) as post-doctoral fellow in Taiwan before moving to the Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts at Amherst for a year (2003-2004) as research associate. Prior to joining as Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee in 2006, he again served as senior post-doctoral fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan for two years (2004-2006). He is currently serving as Professor of Chemistry from 2018 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
ResearchLink
His research work is focused on the development of organic and organometallic dyes suitable for application in electronic devices such as organic light-emitting diodes, dye-sensitized solar cells and bulk-heterojunction solar cells. He has successfully completed six sponsored (DST, CSIR & BASF) projects and two research projects are being implemented. He has co-authored more than 150 research papers in international journals and co-inventor in five US patents. He has supervised fifteen PhD students and guided several MTech students. Currently, eight students are pursuing Ph.D. under his guidance.
Awards and HonorsLink
He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry since 2018.
He received Bronze Medal from the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2018.
Received Publons Top Reviewers of Chemistry (#24) Award in September 2018.
Received Publons Top Reviewers of Physics (#25) Award in September 2018.
He received outstanding reviewer certificates from the Editors of Materials Chemistry Frontiers in 2016, Dyes and Pigments in 2017, Synthetic Metals in 2017, Journal of Luminescence in 2018 and Organic Electronics in 2018.