Kirori Mal College
(University of Delhi)
University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
(Phone No. - 011-7121 9084 : Email - principal@kmc.du.ac.in)
Print Date : 30-01-2025
1. Personal Profile
Title: Dr.   First Name: RUCHI SHARMA   Last Name: PANDEY img
Designation: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR   Mobile No. ----------
Phone No. (Office) 011-71219084   Phone No. (Residence): ----------
Email: s.ruchi@kmc.du.ac.in   Webpage: ----------
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Youtube: ----------         Research Gate Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruchi_Sharma_Pandey
Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WEkgPWQAAAAJ&hl=en
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2. Educational Qualifications
Degree/ Certification Institution Year
B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry Miranda House, University of Delhi 1998
M.Sc. (Chemistry) Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur 2000
JRF-NET Qualification CSIR-UGC 2002
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi 2010
3. Career Profile & Administrative Assignments
Category Role/ Designation Department/ Committee Date From - To Remarks
CAREER PROFILE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, DELHI 21.Jul.2011 - 30.Apr.2018
CAREER PROFILE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CHEMISTRY ST. STEPHENS COLLEGE, DELHI 25.Sep.2019 - 15.Nov.2019
CAREER PROFILE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CHEMISTRY KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 28.Jan.2020 - 13.Oct.2022 LEVEL 10
CAREER PROFILE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CHEMISTRY KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI 14.Oct.2022 - Till date LEVEL 11
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER PORTAL COMMITTEE KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.May.2023 - Till date
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER PARIVARTAN-THE GENDER FORUM KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.May.2023 - Till date
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS CONVENER CHEMISTRY KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI 01.May.2024 - Till date Convenor - Seminar Committee, Member - Lab Management Committee, Member - Purchase Committee,
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER THE SPIC MACAY UNIT KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.May.2023 - Till date
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS CONVENER CHEMISTRY KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 09.May.2023 - 30.Apr.2024 Convenor - Seminar Committee, Member - Library Committee, Member - Lab Management Committee
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, DELHI 13.Feb.2023 - 01.Apr.2023 Moderation Committee, Department of Chemistry, DU
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER CHEMISTRY KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Apr.2022 - 31.Mar.2023 Admission-in-charge for B.Sc (H) Chemistry and M.Sc. Chemistry, Member - Library Committee, Member - Lab Management Committee, Member - Seminar Committee, Member - Discipline Committee
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, DELHI 10.Nov.2022 - 30.Dec.2022 Moderation Committee, Department of Chemistry, DU
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER OTHERS KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Nov.2021 - 30.Nov.2022 NAAC - Criterion VI Committee
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER CHEMISTRY KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Jul.2022 - 30.Dec.2022 Member, Department of Chemistry, NAAC Committee
4. Other Profiles
Other Profile Name/ Description
AREAS OF INTEREST/ SPECIALIZATION

Broad Area of Specialization: Physical Chemistry

 

·        Computational Chemistry: Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations

·        Water-like Anomalies

·        Network Forming Liquids

·        Molecular Modeling

·        Condensed Matter Physics
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

 

·        Recognition for outstanding contribution of using ICT based teaching and learning methodology by Spoken Tutorials, IIT Bombay (National Mission on Education through ICT, MoE, Govt. of India).

·        Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Computational Studies of Network Forming Liquids: Multiple time-scale behavior and water-like anomalies”, under Professor Charusita Chakaravarty, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Delhi

·        Highest cumulative impact factor for 6 international publications during PhD, from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi, in 2008-09, for which I received cash award and certificate of appreciation.

·        Recipient of highly coveted Junior Research Fellowship (Nov’03-Nov’05) and Senior Research Fellowship (Dec‘05 to Nov’08) through the National Eligibility Test (NET) (CSIR/UGC) for research fellowship and eligibility for lectureship held in Dec, 2002 in Chemical Sciences

·        Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) for research fellowship held in Feb’02 in chemistry

 

·        All India Sanskrit Board scholarship & certificate of merit for securing 98% in Sanskrit in Class X (CBSE’93)
SUBJECTS TAUGHT

Odd Sem (2023-2024) 


S. No. 
Course 
Title of Paper 
Type of Paper 
UPC 
1 
B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, Part III, Sem V 
Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy 
CBCS-LOCF 
CORE- Theory 
32171502 
2 
B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, Part III, Sem V 
Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy 
CBCS-LOCF 
CORE- Practical 
32171502 
3 
B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, Part I, Sem I 
Gaseous and Liquid State 
NEP 
DSC – Practical 
2172011103 
4 
B.Sc. (P) Analytical Chem., Part III, Sem V 
Chemistry of d-block elements, Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy 
CBCS-LOCF 
DSE- Practical 
42177925 

 

Even Sem (2023-2024) 

S. No. 

Course 

Title of Paper 

Type of Paper 

UPC 

1 

B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, Part III, Sem VI 

Applications of Computers in Chemistry 

CBCS-LOCF 

DSE- Practical 

32177903 

2 

B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, Part III, Sem VI 

Polymer Chemistry 

CBCS-LOCF 

DSE- Practical 

32177906 

3 

B.Sc. (H) Chemistry, Part II, Sem IV 

Solutions, Phase Equilibria, Adsorption 

NEP 

DSE – Theory 

2173012005 

4 

B.Sc. (P) Physical Sciences, Part III, Sem VI 

IT Skills for Chemists 

CBCS-LOCF 

SEC- Theory 

32173901 

5 

B.Sc. (P) Physical Sciences, Part III, Sem VI 

IT Skills for Chemists 

CBCS-LOCF 

SEC- Practical 

32173901 
CERTIFICATE COURSE/ SHORT TERM COURSE ORGANIZED

Member, Organizing Committee, Certificate Course on " Forensic Science, Sep 30 - Oct 18 2022 sponsored by Department of Chemistry, KMC in collaboration with Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, AIIMS Delhi.
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE/ WEBINAR ORGANIZED

Organized the Inaugural Seminar of the Seminar Committee of Department of Chemistry, KMC on "Role of Molecular Chirality in the Living World", on 29th August 2023, by Prof. Ravi P. Singh, Department of Chemistry, IIT - Delhi, as the Convenor, Seminar Committee.
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE/ WEBINAR ORGANIZED

Organized an International Webinar on " Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Materials, Mechanisms and Applications", by Prof. Neil Robertson, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK, on 28th Oct 2023, as the Convenor, Seminar Committee, Department of Chemistry, KMC under the aegis of DBT Star Scheme.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (FDP) ORGANIZED

Member, Organizing Committee for FDP on Environmental Sciences and Public Health, sponsored by Department of Chemistry, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in collaboration with Mizoram University under the aegis of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Training (Ministry of Education, Government of India) from 1st to 5th Feb 2022.
OUTREACH PROGRAM ORGANIZED

Organized Outreach program in Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura, New Delhi, 20th April 2022 for Class 11 and 12 students. Also delivered a Lecture Titled, “Emerging Trends and Careers in Chemistry”. 
OTHERS

Conferences Attended

Presenting Author

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R. Sharma, M. Agarwal and C. Chakravarty

 Entropy, Diffusivity and Structural Order in Liquids with Waterlike Anomalies

Spring College on” Water in Physics, Chemistry and Biology”, 10 - 20 April, 2007 held at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

 

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R. Sharma, S. N. Chakraborty and C. Chakravarty

Entropy, Diffusivity and Structural Order in Liquids with Waterlike Anomalies
School on Understanding Molecular Simulations (SUMS-07), 22 - 27 January 2007 held at JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

 

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R. Sharma, A. Mudi and C. Chakravarty

Multiple Time-Scale Behaviour and Diffusional Anomaly in Tetrahedral Liquids

Winter School on Computational Approaches to Materials Science (CAMS-06), 18 - 21 January 2006 held at JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

 

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R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Multiple Time-Scale Behaviour and Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in liquid Methanol

DAE-BRNS Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, 9 - 12 December 2004 held at BARC, Mumbai, India.

 

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Attended Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics-III, International Conference and School, 28 June - 1 July 2004 held at JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

 

Co-Author

 

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M. Agarwal, R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Entropy, Mobility and Structural Order in Ionic Melts with Waterlike Anomalies

Gordon Research Conference: Water and aqueous solutions, 27 July- 1 Aug 2008, held at Holderness, NH, USA

 

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M. Agarwal, R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Ionic Melts: Relationship between Structure, Entropy and Transport Properties

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M. Agarwal, S. N. Chakraborty, T. Goel, M.Majumder, R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Chemistry in Silico

I2Tech "Open House", 21 April 2007 held at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

 
OTHERS

Computational Skills

Languages: Proficient in PYTHON, FORTRAN and BASIC and familiar with C/C++

Document Markup Language: LaTex

Chemical Softwares: HyperChem, ACD/Chemsketch, ISIS/Draw, MATLAB, DIAMOND, GAUSSIAN, NAMD, DL_POLY, PACKMOL, AVOGADRO, Mocubed, JMol, ORCA

Simulation Methods: Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics

Operating System: Windows:XP/7/8/10; Mac:OSX; Linux- Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu

Utility: MS Office – Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Google-Meet, Zoom, Sheets Microsoft-Teams

 
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE/ WEBINAR ORGANIZED

Member, Organizing Committee, Student Development program on “Molecular Modeling with JMol”, March 31st to Apr 4th 2023, sponsored by DBT Star College Scheme, Department of Chemistry, KMC in collaboration with Spoken Tutorials, IIT Bombay
5. Research Guidance
Year Guide For Title of the Dissertation/ Thesis Scholar Name Status
6. Research Projects
Year Title of Project Sponsorship Agency Duration Amount Sanctioned Date of Sanction
7. Publications
Category Publication Name Title Name of Author Reference Link/
DOI Link		 Publication
(Month-Year)
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)		 Relationship between Structure, Entropy, and Diffusivity in Water and Water-Like Liquids J. Phys. Chem. B/ACS Manish Agarwal, Murari Singh, Ruchi Sharma, M. Parvez Alam and Charusita Chakravarty
(Joint Author)		 https://doi.org/10.1021/jp101956u May
2010
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)		 Estimating the entropy of liquids from atom-atom radial distribution functions: silica, beryllium fluoride and water Molecular Physics / Taylor & Francis Ruchi Sharma, Manish Agarwal and Charusita Chakravarty
(First Author)		 https://doi.org/10.1080/00268970802378662 October
2008
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)		 Multiple Time Scale behaviors and Network Dynamics in Liquid Methanol J. Phys. Chem. B/ACS Ruchi Sharma, Charusita Chakravarty and Edoardo Milotti
(First Author)		 https://doi.org/10.1021/jp802085v July
2008
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)		 Ionic melts with waterlike anomalies: Thermodynamic properties of liquid BeF2 J. Chem. Phys / AIP Manish Agarwal, Ruchi Sharma and Charusita Chakravarty
(Joint Author)		 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2794766 October
2007
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)		 Entropy, diffusivity, and structural order in liquids with waterlike anomalies J. Chem. Phys / AIP Ruchi Sharma; Somendra Nath Chakraborty; Charusita Chakravarty
(First Author)		 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2390710 November
2006
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)		 Diffusional anomaly and network dynamics in liquid silica J. Chem. Phys / AIP Ruchi Sharma; Anirban Mudi; Charusita Chakravarty
(First Author)		 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2219113 July
2006
8. Books
Category Book Name Title Name of Author ISSN/ ISBN Number
9. Faculty Achievements
Year Category of Achievement Role National/ International etc. Name Date From-To
2022 REFRESHER COURSE ATTENDED PARTICIPANT National Online 2-week Refresher Course in Chemistry 29.Nov.2022 - 13.Dec.2022
2022 FACULTY INDUCTION PROGRAM ATTENDED PARTICIPANT National 4-week Online Faculty Induction/Orientation Program for Faculty in Universities/ Colleges/ Institutes of Higher Education 20.Oct.2022 - 18.Nov.2022
2022 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED PARTICIPANT University Workshop on Computational Methods and Molecular Modeling 02.Sep.2022 - 03.Sep.2022
2022 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED PARTICIPANT University Workshop on Introduction to Python Programming 01.Jul.2022 - 02.Jul.2022
2022 INVITED LECTURES/ RESOURCE PERSON/ PAPER PRESENTATIONS ATTENDED RESOURCE PERSON College Outreach Program on Emerging Trends and Careers in Chemistry 20.Apr.2022 - 20.Apr.2022
2022 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED PARTICIPANT International International Workshop on Drug Discovery and Development 21.May.2022 - 15.Jun.2022
2022 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ATTENDED PARTICIPANT University FDP on Environmental Sciences and Public Health 01.Feb.2022 - 05.Feb.2022
2021 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ATTENDED PARTICIPANT University FDP on Programming in Python 06.Dec.2021 - 10.Dec.2021
2021 ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE/ TRAINING PROGRAMS ATTENDED PARTICIPANT National Short Term Course in Practical Numerical Methods in Python 19.Nov.2021 - 25.Nov.2021
2021 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED RESOURCE PERSON College Students Skill Development Workshop on Online Tools for Chemistry 22.Oct.2021 - 23.Oct.2021
2021 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED RESOURCE PERSON College Hands-on Workshop on UV Visible Spectrophotometry and its Applications 19.Jul.2021 - 19.Jul.2021
2021 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED PARTICIPANT University Workshop on Tools for Exploring Chemistry 12.Jul.2021 - 13.Jul.2021
2021 WEBINAR ATTENDED PARTICIPANT International International Webinar on Empowering Diversity in Science 12.Feb.2021 - 12.Feb.2021
2020 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ATTENDED PARTICIPANT University FDP on Innovation in Scientific Research Method 14.Oct.2020 - 18.Oct.2020
2020 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ATTENDED PARTICIPANT National FDP on ICT: Instructional Design, Development & Learning 24.Jul.2020 - 30.Jul.2020
2020 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED RESOURCE PERSON College Online workshop on Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling in Drug Design 19.May.2020 - 20.May.2020
2020 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED PARTICIPANT National National Seminar on "ICT Enabled Higher Education in India : Challenges and Opportunities" 17.Apr.2020 - 17.Apr.2020
 
 
Dr. RUCHI SHARMA PANDEY