Rate My Professor Keshaba Parida

Keshaba Nanda Parida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kanyakumari, India. He obtained his BSc in 2006 and MSc in 2008 from Sambalpur University, followed by a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2015. His doctoral work under Prof. Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy centered on hypervalent iodine-mediated oxidations and dioxirane chemistry. After his PhD, he pursued postdoctoral research at Ariel University, Israel, with Prof. Alex M. Szpilman, focusing on umpolung methodologies involving enolonium species. He then served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Arizona with Prof. Dominic V. McGrath, designing organic materials for molecular electronics and solar cells. Parida held the position of CSIR Pool Scientist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, and was an Assistant Professor at Sreenidhi University, Hyderabad. He was awarded the CSIR Scientist's Pool Fellowship (SRA – 13(9206-A)2021-POOL).

Parida's research specializes in hypervalent iodine compounds, photochromism, molecular electronics, and synthetic organic chemistry. His contributions have garnered over 1100 citations on Google Scholar. Notable publications include "Enolonium Species-Umpoled Enolates" (Chem. Commun., 2017), "Dioxiranes: a half-century journey" (Org. Biomol. Chem., 2022), "Grid-Based Correlation Analysis to Identify Rare Quantum..." (J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021), "Transition metal-free transfer of iodoarenes..." (Org. Biomol. Chem., 2026), and "Chiral Porous Organic Polymers (CPOPs): Design, Synthesis..." (Chem., 2025). He teaches and mentors students in BE, BSc, and MSc programs.