Varinder Aggarwal - Curriculum Vitae#

PUBLICATIONS

• Total Primary Publications (339), Reviews (32); Book Chapters (21) and Patents (9). H index = 67.
  
• In the last 5 years he has published 90 papers including 1 Science, 2 Nature, 2 Nature Chemistry, 18 JACS, and 33 Angewandte’s.

PLENARY LECTURES

Average of 8 plenary lectures pa. In 2019 these were in France, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, USA, and China.

Conference Organisation:

• Bristol Synthesis Meeting (2000–) I instituted this annual conference and am the Chairman and Organiser of the meeting. It regularly attracts over 500 participants;
  
• Int. Symp. on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, Athens, Greece; Chair, 2019;
  
• Stereochemistry Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina, Rhode Island, USA; Chair, 2020

MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES

• Member of Int Comm on Organic Chemistry of Sulfur (1999 - 2010)
  
• Member of Int Comm on Heteroatom Chemistry (2002 - 2009)
  
• Editorial Board of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry (2002 - 2005)
  
• Int. Adv. Board of Chem Comm (2005 - 2010)
  
• Int. Adv. Board of Chemistry, an Asian Journal (2006 - 2017)
  
• Int. Adv. Board of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry (2012-)
  
• Int. Adv. Board of Chem (Cell Press) (2019-)

EXTERNAL COMMITTEES:

• Fellowship of the Royal Society [SC3] (2011 – 2014);
  
• ERC Advanced Panel (2015 – 2018).
  
• International External Assessor, Chemistry Department, Nankai University 2017

CONSULTANCIES

• Celltech (1993 - 1999; 2007).
  
• Chiroscience Advisory Board (1998 - 2000)
  
• ICI Advisory Board (1999 - 2002)
  
• Consultant to Pfizer (1999 - 2003)
  
• Zeneca Agrochemicals Advisory Board (1999)
  
• CelticCatalysts Scientific Advisory Board (2001 - 2010)
  
• Shasun Scientific Advisory Board (2007 - 2013)
  
• Topokine Scientific Advisory Board (2013 - 2016)
  
• Aurobindo Pharma (2016 - 2017)
  
• Arkinova (2017-)

Since the start of his academic career in 1988, Aggarwal has supervised 102 postgraduate students to successful completion of their Ph.D. degrees, and 110 postdoctoral research fellows. Over 95 % of this large group have remained in chemistry. At Bristol, Aggarwal has an active research environment in which young researchers of many nationalities can flourish and experience the diversity of training and culture associated with an internationally recognized research group. The high quality of training makes the co-workers particularly sought after in industry as well as academia. Since the start of his career, 37 scientists have obtained academic positions in European Universities [UK (10- two have URFs, 1 is an ERC grant holder), Ireland (3), Spain (4), Italy (2), France (13), Germany (2), Sweden (1), Belgium (1), Greece (1)]] and 17 in Americas/Asia. This demonstrates Aggarwal’s ability to attract, educate and inspire the next generation of academics.