Premlata Kumari
Dr. Premlata Kumari is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, SVNIT Surat, India. She has 15 plus years of teaching and research experience. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Allahabad in the year 2002 and 2007 respectively. She was a junior research fellow at the University of Allahabad, before joining the Department of Applied Chemistry, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. She served as Head of the Applied Chemistry Department in the years 2016-2017. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed research articles and 12 book chapters. She has supervised 18 postgraduate students and 5 Ph.D. students. At present, 6 Ph.D. students and two Master's students are working under her supervision. The majority of her works deal with the Organic synthesis of reaction intermediates and bioactive compounds against various diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, cancer, etc., extraction of natural products from various medicinally important plants, and development of HPLC methods for chemical markers of medicinal plants. Citations: 1433 h-index: 21