Vipin’s Profile

Professional Position

  • Jan 2021-present: ‘Associate Professor’ or ‘scientist-G’ at TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS), TIFR, Hyderabad India.
  • May 2015- Dec 2020: ‘Assistant Professor’ at TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS), TIFR, Hyderabad India.

Postdoctoral Positions

  • Oct 2011-Feb 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Laboratory Of Physical Chemistry. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland. Supervisors: Prof Beat H. Meier and Prof Matthias Ernst.
  • Sep 2009-Sep 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, Institute of Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Supervisors: Prof Arnold Kentgens.
  • May 2009-Sep 2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Structural Biology, “Leibniz-Institut fur Molekulare Pharmkologie”, Berlin, Germany. Supervisors: Prof Bernd Reif.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2005-2009: Ph.D. (Biophysics) in the group of Prof. Dr. Bernd Reif at “Leibniz-Institut fur Molekulare Pharmkologie”, Berlin, Germany. Degree was awarded by Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
    Thesis Title: “Development and Application of Magic Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR methodologies to Biomolecules”
  • 2001-2004: Master of Science (M.S. in Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
    Thesis Title: “Methodologies for High Resolution Proton NMR in Solids”
  • 1998-2001: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Honours Chemistry), St. Stephen’s college Delhi, India.
  • 1996-1997: All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Schillers Institute, Ghaziabad, India.
  • 1988-1996: All India Secondary School Examination, Electra Vidyapeeth, Meerut, India.
  • 1984-1988: St. Stephen’s School, Chandigarh India.

Visiting Positions

  • February 2023:  Visiting scientist  at the Riken NMR Centre, Yokohama, group of Dr Nishiyama
  • March 2019: Visiting scientist  at the Riken NMR Centre, Yokohama, group of Dr Nishiyama and Prof Ishii
  • June 2018: Visiting scientist  at the Riken NMR Centre, Yokohama, group of Dr Nishiyama
  • Oct-Nov. 2017: JSPS invitational fellow for research in Japan at the Riken NMR Centre in the group of Dr Nishiyama
  • Oct.-Nov. 2016: Visiting researcher at Prof Pintacuda’s Lab  at Centre de RMN à Tres Hauts Champs, Institut des Sciences Analytiques, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
  • Sep.–Oct. 2004: Visiting student at Prof Lyndon Emsley’s Lab at ENS/CNRS, Lyon France

Publications

Awards and Fellowships

  • S. Subramanian’s 60th Birthday Lecture Award, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of India, 2023
  • Member, NMR/MRI Advisory Sub-Committee, National High-Field Magnetic Lab, University of Florida, U.S.A Jan 2023-Dec 2025
  • Time-sensitive award for an article published in JMR/JMRO joint Special Issue “New Voices in Magnetic Resonance” presented by ISMAR (International Society of Magnetic Resonance) 2022.
  • Executive Council Member, National Magnetic Resonance Society of India, February 2020-Feb 2023
  • FY2017 JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan, JSPS, Japan, 2017
  • Best Poster Award at EUROMAR 2012, 1st -5th July, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Awarded student travel grant for the 49th ENC (March 9 – 14, 2008, Asilomar Conference Centre, Pacific Grove, CA)
  • Life Member, National Magnetic Resonance Society of India, 2003
  • Awarded a graduate research studentship by Indian Institute of Science, 2003
  • Awarded a M. S. studentship by Indian Institute of Science, 2001
  • Awarded the Shri Bhikha Mal Memorial Prize, St. Stephen’s College Delhi, 2000
  • Awarded the the Shri Hazari Lal Gupta Memorial Prize, St. Stephen’s College Delhi, 1999

Collaborators

Samir Maji, IIT Mumbai, India

Yusuke Nishiyama,  Riken, Yokohama, Japan

Matthias Ernst, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland