Vacancies in Kathmandu University

3 Chemistry positions at Assistant Professor Level.

KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY

DHULIKHEL, KAVRE

                           Career Opportunity            Date: February 12, 2013       

Kathmandu University (KU) is an autonomous, not-for-profit institution of higher learning dedicated to maintaining high standards of academic excellence.  Pursuing the mission of providing quality education for leadership and leadership in quality education, KU is in the forefront of knowledge industry in the fields of science, engineering, management, education, arts, and medical sciences.

 

KU is looking for committed, competent, and qualified Nepali professionals to take up permanent faculty positions in its School of Science

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The minimum qualifications required and other requirements are available at KU webpage.

Potential candidates will require completing an application form available from February 14, 2013 on payment of Rs. 500 from Kathmandu University Central Office, Dhulikhel (Tel # 011 66 13 99/ 011 66 15 11) or KUSOM, Balkumari, Lalitpur (Tel # 55 44 078/ 55 48 891) from 10 AM to 3 PM on working days.

Application form can also be downloaded from KU webpage.   The completed application form must be submitted along with necessary documents not later than March 7, 2013 to KU Central Office, Dhulikhel, Kavre.  The eligible candidate must make a payment of test and interview fee of Rs 1500 for Assistant Professor and Rs 1800 for Associate Professor and interview fee of Rs 2000 for Professor at the time of collecting admit card.

Documents required: Attested copies of mark sheets of all academic qualifications/ transcripts, citizenship certificate, work and professional experience certificates (both existing and previous), training certificates, and a list of research publications.  Two recent PP size photographs should be attached.

For More detail please go through the link provided for specific position.

  1. Professor
    2.  Associate Professor click for more

  3. Assistant Professor

Salary and benefits will be as per the rule of the University.

 

KU provides good career opportunities for high performing staff.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further selection process as per the KU selection guidelines.

Registrar

Kathmandu University

Dhulikhel, Kavre

Phone: (011)661399, www.ku.edu.np

Nepali Scientist's work featured in Science Magazine

Nepali young scientist's (Dr. Raghu Dhital-Oasis) work has recently been featured as Editors's choice in reputed journal Science. Here is the text.

"In the classic Ullmann coupling reaction reported more than a century ago, iodine substituted aromatic rings were coupled at high temperatures by using copper as a reducing agent to form a carbon-carbon bond. Further work extended this coupling reaction to more conventional chloroarenes by using coreductants and precious-metal catalysts, but reaction temperatures still tended to be high. Dhital et al. now show that a wide variety of chloroarenes can be coupled at ambient temperatures (25° to 45°C). The reactions proceeded under basic conditions (in a mixed organic-aqueous solvent) in the presence of gold-palladium nanocluster catalysts. Neither pure gold nor pure palladium clusters could catalyze the reaction, indicating that alloying of the metals was critical for reactivity. Density functional theory calculations indicated that the critical difference for the alloy clusters is that they favor activation of the carbon-chlorine bond through the dissociative adsorption of the arene chlorides."

Dr. Dhital's work has also been featured in JACS's spotlight. See below.

TWO METALS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

Heterogeneous catalysis using nanoclusters consisting of more than one metal is seeing more widespread application in chemistry, because these types of catalysts can be highly efficient or may have unusual properties. Particularly attractive are the gold/palladium bimetallic cluster alloys, due to their high catalytic turnover. Masahiro Ehara, Hidehiro Sakurai, and co-workers have used this bimetallic alloy to activate the high-energy carbon−chlorine bond (DOI: 10.1021/ja309606k). They discover that the Au/ Pd nanocluster can catalyze Ullmann coupling of chloroarenes at room temperature, a reaction that otherwise requires harsh conditions. The reaction does not progress with either gold or palladium single-metal nanoclusters alone, nor with a macroscopic mixture of the two metals. Through computational analysis, the researchers find that the high activity of the bimetallic nanocluster is due to the substrate being adsorbed onto the alloy surface, which is unlikely to occur with single metal catalysts. In addition, the nanocluster is found to have higher activity toward chloroarenes than their bromo equivalents. This straightforward method to activate the robust C−Cl bond may enable the design and synthesis of new multimetallic catalyst for similar activation energy. (JACS spotlight, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 949)

Dr. Dhital completed his PhD last year from Institute for Molecular Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) with Prof Hidehiro Sakurai. He is now working as post-doctoral fellow. He has MSc degree from CDC, Tribhuvan university, Nepal.

Following are some of his recent publications.

1. R. N. Dhital, A. Murugadoss and H. Sakurai, “Dual Roles of Polyhydroxy Matrices in the Homocoupling of Arylboronic Acids Catalyzed by Gold Nanoclusters under Acidic Conditions”, Chem. Asian J. 2012, 7, 55. (Inside cover picture)

2. R. N. Dhital and H. Sakurai, “Anomalous Efficacy of Bimetallic Au/Pd Nanoclusters in C-Cl Bond Activation and Formal Metathesis-type C-B Bond Activation at Room Temperature”, Chem. Lett. 2012, 41, 630. (Editor’s choice)

3.R. N. Dhital, C. Kamonsatikul, E. Somsook, K. Bobuatong, M. Ehara, S. Karanjit and H. Sakurai, “Low-temperature Carbon–Chlorine Bond Activation by Bimetallic Gold/Palladium Alloy Nanoclusters: An Application to Ullmann Coupling”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 20250. (Highlight in Science, 2013, 339, January 4 and Highlight in JACS spotlight, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013,135, 949).

4. R. N. Dhital, C. Kamonsatikul, E. Somsook Y. Sato and H. Sakurai, “Aryl Iodide as a Strong Inhibitor for the Gold and Gold-based Bimetallic quasi-Homogeneous Catalysis”, Chem.Comm. DOI: 10.1039/C3CC39019E, in press.