About Kumar

Dr. Amit Kumar

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
School of Chemistry
University of St. Andrews, UK

Email: ak336@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Timeline

  • Since Aug 2024 Principal Research Fellow (Equivalent to Associate Professor/Reader)
  • Since Aug 2022 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews
  • Jan 2020-July 2022 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews
  • Aug 2016-Dec 2019 Postdoc with Prof. David Milstein, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Sep 2012-May 2016 DPhil (Rhodes Scholar) with Prof. Andrew Weller, University of Oxford, UK
  • Aug 2007-May 2012 Integrated M.Sc. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Fellowships/Grants

  • EPSRC Research Grant, Frontier Research Guarantee Scheme (Selected by ERC, Funded by EPSRC, Originally an ERC Starter Grant, August 2023 – July 2028).
  • UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, University of St. Andrews (August 2022 – July 2026).
  • EPSRC Core Equipment Grant, as a Co-I to purchase a solution state NMR spectrometer at the School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews (2022).
  • Impact & Innovation Fund, University of St. Andrews (2022).
  • Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (Jan 2020-July 2022), University of St. Andrews.
  • PBC fellowship (Planning and Budgeting Committee of Israel) for carrying postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Aug 2016-Aug 2019).  
  • Rhodes scholarship for the doctoral research at the University of Oxford (Oct 2012-Sep 2015).

Awards

  • 2025 Harrison-Meldola Early Career Prize in Chemistry
  • 2023 UK Young Observer Award (RSC) for the 52nd IUPAC General Assembly (The Hague, Netherlands, Aug 19-20, 2023).
  • Poster prize at the 12th CaRLa Winter School (Feb 17-22, 2019) organised by the University of Heidelberg and the BASF.
  • ‘FGS Prize’ (Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science) for outstanding achievements in postdoctoral research, 2018.
  • ‘RSC Advance Best Poster Prize’ at the 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition’, Ottawa (June 13-17, 2015).
  • Institute Silver Medal, IIT Roorkee, India.
Invited Lectures and Conferences
  • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (Dec 15, 2025).
  • Harbin Institute of Technology, China (Dec 12, 2025).
  • Wenzhou University, China (Dec 10, 2025).
  • Ningbo Institute of Material Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science (Dec 8, 2025).
  • Aarhus University, Denmark (Oct 31, 2025).
  • UK-China Sustainable Synthesis Symposium, University of Warwick (Aug 4-5, 2025).
  • IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, Malaysia, (July 14-19, 2025).
  • EastCHEM ECR Symposium, St. Andrews, (June 17, 2025).
  • Dalton 2025, University of Warwick (April 1-3, 2025).
  • CaRLa Winter School, University of Heidelberg (Feb 24-28, 2025).
  • School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast (Sep 16, 2024).
  • Meetings of Inorganic Chemists Recently Appointed (MICRA, Leicester, Sep 9-11, 2024).
  • International Conference in Organometallic Chemistry (Agra, India, July 14-18, 2024).
  • ScotChem Polymer & Soft Materials III Conference (Glasgow, June 13-14, 2024).
  • St. Andrews Interdisciplinary Science Conference (Jan 27-28, 2024).
  • King’s College London (Oct 4, 2023).
  • Recent Appointees in Polymer Science (RAPS) Meeting (Birmingham, Sep 6-8, 2023).
  • IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (The Hague, Netherlands, Aug 20-27, 2023).
  • Johnson Matthey, Cambridge (June 30, 2023).
  • Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa), University of Heidelberg, Germany (June 5, 2023).
  • BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany (June 4, 2023).
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (May 30, 2023).
  • ScotCHEM Polymer & Soft Materials Conference (University of Edinburgh, May 4, 2023).
  • RSC Dalton Meeting, University of Warwick (Coventry, April 18-20, 2023).
  • Saltire Catalysis Symposium, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Dec 12-13, 2022).
  • School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Nov 23, 2022).
  • Canada-UK Joint Symposium on Coordination Chemistry (St. Andrews, May 31-June 1, 2022).
  • Global Inorganic Discussion Weekdays (Canada, GIDW, Feb 28, 2022).
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Paris (Feb 25, 2022).
  • ScotChem ECR Seminar (Scotland, Nov 16, 2021).
  • Department of Chemistry, University of York (Nov 3, 2021).
  • Johnson Matthey, Cambridge (Sep 10, 2021).
  • Scottish Dalton Meeting (Scotland, Aug 26, 2021).
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick (Nov 19, 2020).
  • 12th CaRLa Winter School (Feb 17-22, 2019) organised by the University of Heidelberg and the BASF.
  • 28th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Florence (15-20 July, 2018).
  • 21st International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Amsterdam (8-13 July, 2018).
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (8th August, 2016).        
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay (5th August, 2016).
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2nd August, 2016).
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (1st July, 2016).
  • 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Ottawa (June 13-17, 2015).
  • 41st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Singapore (July 21-25, 2014).
  • 15th Modern Trend in Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Dec 13-16, 2013).
  • RSC Coordination Chemistry Discussion Group Meeting, Imperial College, London (July 4-5, 2013).