About
Dr. Dimple Rani has been an Assistant Professor of
Forensic Chemistry in the Department of Forensic Sciences at National Forensic
Sciences University, Goa, since September 2026. Before joining NFSU, Goa, she
worked as Postdoctoral research associate with Professor Charles McCrory at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, where she conducted research on the
synthesis of single-atom alloys and their application in electrochemical C–N
coupling.
Education: Dr. Dimple Rani received her Ph.D. (2023) from the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under the supervision of Professor S.
Sampath, with a thesis titled on Interfacial Studies Using Organized Organic
and Inorganic Films. She earned M.Sc. in Chemistry, with a minor in
Biochemistry, from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University,
Hisar, Haryana and her B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai
Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.
Selected
Awards and Honors
•
Certificate
of Recognition & Appreciation,
2024: ACS Publications Peer Reviewer.
•
Certificate
& Award, 2024:
Best Poster Presentation in the MUACC Conference 2024, Detroit, MI, USA.
•
Certificate of Merit, 2023: Best Paper
in the International Conference on Women in Electrochemistry at IISc, Bengaluru,
India.
•
Vasudevamurthy-Soundararajan Prize, 2019: Best Student Seminar by IPC department, IISc, India.
•
Qualified Joint CSIR-UGC Test 2016, with 55 All India Rank (Lifetime eligible
for lectureship).
•
GATE fellowship 2016, from the Ministry
of Education, Government of India.
•
Recipient of INSPIRE scholarship 2013-2015, by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for M.Sc.
No. of Publications
Research Paper
5
Book
0
Book Chapter
