Poster #56 - Dinesh Shetty

New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Biography

Dr. Dinesh Shetty is currently a research scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi where he specializes in the design and development of porous materials and macrocyclic chemistry for various applications including water purification. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in chemistry from Mangalore University, India and Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, respectively. From 2011 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, USA and later moved back to South Korea in the year 2013 where he was a research fellow in the group of Professor Kimoon Kim at the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, Institute for Basic Science, POSTECH. He is a trained organic chemist with working experience in multidisciplinary research areas including material science and bio-medical science since last 12 years. He is the author of 28 peer reviewed journal papers, 20 conference papers, and 4 patents with h-index of 14. He received the Young Investigator Award from both the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine and Korean Cancer Research Foundation. He has delivered research talks in multiple countries and is currently an active member of Royal Society of Chemistry and American Chemical Society. In addition, he has been serving in the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) abstract review committee member for the last three years.