Kulamani Parida

Professor Kulamani Parida, also known as K. M. Parida (born 9 May 1952) is an Indian chemical science professor and scientist best known for his work and research, mainly on material chemistry. Parida is amongst World’s Top 2% Scientist 2020 with global rank 109 in Inorganic Chemistry ( Ranking based on C-score) and Rank 1 in the area of photocatalysis in India and 131 rank in the world based on Scopus author profile during 2016-2021. Parida has also an outstanding google scholar citation index with citations of more than ~32316, h-index ~98, and i10-index ~444. Currently Parida is serving as Professor in chemistry and Director of Centre for Nano Science and Nano Technology department of Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar. Parida also has served as active board member of scientific journals like “The Open Catalysis Journal” and “Bulletin of the Catalysis Society of India”.

Awards and honours Parida has received scientific awards and honours including

MRSI Annual Prizes award (2022), Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya Endoment Eminent Scientist Award (2017), Dai-Ichi Karkaria Endowment Fellowship (2014), MRSI Medal (2013), Certificate of Excellence by IMMT (2010), Ukieri Research Award (2009), SGAT Award of Excellence (2007), Metallurgist of the Year Award (2004), Nilamani Devi-Bishwanath Das Award (2003), Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award (2001), Ferroguard Award (1985–86).

Parida also received an award, the Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence (2008) from Odisha Bigyan Academy and Royal Society Fellowship (2004 and 2008).