Prof. Jeetender Chugh

I have obtained my M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Delhi in 2002; and my Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics (under the supervision of Prof. R V Hosur) from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 2008 while working in NMR Spectroscopy. I joined IISER Pune as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biology in 2013 after finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, USA (mentor: Prof. Hashim M Al-Hashimi). During my tenure at the University of Michigan, I taught a course on Physical Chemistry Experiments. After joining IISER Pune, I have been teaching several theory and lab courses. I have also been teaching Introduction to NMR spectroscopy in Structural Biology at multiple departments of Savitribai Phule Pune University since 2014. I have been teaching the proposed course (Symmetry and Group Theory) at IISER Pune since Aug 2017. In this course, I will be using whiteboard to teach, with my voice over and video inset to explain. This is specifically important in this course as students need to see how to draw various symmetry elements and carry out respective operations, which is not so clear in pre-drawn power-point based teaching. Also, all the derivations will be done on the whiteboard and not by showing pre-written equations in power-point. I believe this style of teaching will be really beneficial for the students.
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