About Dr. Venkatesh V
Dr. Venkatesh V
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand
Email: venkatesh.v@cy.iitr.ac.in
Academic and Professional details
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry
(2025-Till date) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry
(2019-2025) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
DST-INSPIRE faculty Supervisor: Prof. G. Mugesh
(2017-2019) Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (IPC)
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Post-Doctoral Fellow Supervisor: Professor Peter J Sadler
(2015-2017) Department of Chemistry
The University of Warwick, UK
Ph.D. Supervisor: Professor Sandeep Verma
(2009 - 2014) Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur-208016, India
Awards / Fellowships
2025 Outstanding Young Faculty Award, IIT Roorkee
2017 DST-INSPIRE faculty award from DST,
Government of India
2015- 2017 Newton International Fellowship awarded by
The Royal Society and The British Academy
2014 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Award
2008 National Eligibility Test, University Grants Commission,
India (JRF-chemical sciences).
Representative Publications
1) M. Negi and V. Venkatesh* "Near-Infrared Light Activatable Iridium(III) Complexes for Synergistic
Photodynamic and Photochemotherapy"
Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 6376-6382.
2) V. Venkatesh, N. K. Mishra, I. R. Canelón, R. R. Vernooij, H. Shi, J. P. C. Coverdale, A. Habtemariam,
S. Verma, and P. J. Sadler. “Supramolecular Photoactivatable Anticancer Hydrogels”
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017,139, 5656–5659.
3) V. Venkatesh, R. B.-Martin, C. J. Wedge, I. R. -Canelon, C. S.-Cano, J. Song, J. P. C. Coverdale, P.
Zhang, G. J. Clarkson, A. Habtemariam, S.W. Magennis, R. J. Deeth and P. J. Sadler. “Mitochondria-
targeted spin-labelled luminescent iridium anticancer complexes”
Chem. Sci. 2017, 8271-8278.
4) S. Kandambeth, V. Venkatesh, D. B. Shinde, S. Kumari, A. Halder, S. Verma, R. Banerjee. “Self-
templated chemically stable hollow spherical covalent organic framework” Nature Commun., 2015, 6,
Article No. 6786.
5) Purine-Stabilized Green Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for Cell Nuclei Imaging Applications
V. Venkatesh, A. Shukla, S. Sivakumar, and S. Verma
ACS Appl.Mater.Interfaces., 2014, 6, 2185–2191.