DP Hari
Durga Prasad Hari
Assistant Professor
Biography
Durga Prasad Hari received his MSc degree from IIT Madras in 2010. He then moved to the University of Regensburg, Germany, where he pursued his Ph.D. with Prof. Burkhard König. In 2014, following his graduate education, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Jerome Waser at EPFL, Switzerland. In 2018, he joined the Aggarwal group at the University of Bristol as a Marie-Curie research fellow. Since March 2021, he is holding an assistant professor position at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
Education
Ph.D.
2010 – 2014
University of Regensburg, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Burkhard König
M.Sc.
2008 – 2010
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Thesis Advisor: Prof. S. Sankararaman
Professional Experience
Asst. Professor
2021 – present
Indian Institute of Science, India
Department of Organic Chemistry
Postdoc.
2018 – 2021
University of Bristol, UK
Mari-Curie Research Fellow
Advisor: Prof. Varinder K. Aggarwal
Postdoc.
2014 – 2018
EPFL, Switzerland
Advisor: Prof. Jerome Waser
Awards & Fellowships
2025 INSA Young Associate Fellow
2025 Rising Stars in Organic Chemistry by Thieme
2025 Science of Synthesis Early Career Advisory Board Member
2024 Tetrahedron & Tetrahedron Letters Editorial Board Member
2024 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
2023 Infosys Young Investigator Award
2022 Helvetica Chimica Acta Early Career Advisory Board Member
2021 1st place – 8th National SCI/RSC Retrosynthesis Competition, UK
2020 Finalist – 7th National SCI/RSC Retrosynthesis Competition, UK
2019 Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship
2017 Future Leaders on Stage, SCS Fall Meeting, Switzerland
2016 Bayer Postdoc Workshop in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, USA
2014 Graduated with Summa Cum Laude, University of Regensburg, Germany
2012 Finalist – Reaxys PhD Prize, Philadelphia, USA
2012 BASF International Summer Course, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2010 GRK 1626 Chemical Photocatalysis Fellowship, Germany
2009 Merit Scholarship by IIT Madras for all semesters
2008 1st Rank – MSc Chemistry Entrance Test Conducted by UoH and PCU