Anil A. Bhalekar

Short Bio:

Dr. Anil A. Bhalekar, retired in 2006 as Professor of Physical Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, R. T. M. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India. He served as Emeritus Scientist (CSIR, New Delhi) at the same Department during January 2008 - December 2010 (3 years). Dr. Bhalekar is a Honorary Professor at the Institute of Basic Research (IBR), 35246 US 19 North No. 215, Palm Harbor, FL 34684 U.S.A. and a Scientific Advisor to the Thunder Fusion Corporation, 150 Rainville Road, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689, U.S.A. and is a Member of Scientific Advisory Board and a Honorary Fellow Associate of Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics (IFM) Einstein-Galilein, Prato, Italy. He is the Vice President of Indian Thermodynamics Society (2011-2016). He had been a Council Member (2005-2008) of Chemical Research Society of India. Dr. Bhalekar is a Life Member of (i) Indian Thermodynamics Society, (ii) Chemical Research Society of India and (iii) Indian Chemical Society. Dr. Bhalekar had been Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics of Metropolitan Autonomous University of Mexico (1994-1996) and in November 2006 at the Department of Physics of Universities of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Barcelona (Spain). Dr. Bhalekar did Post-Doctoral research on Micellar Catalysis at the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands during 1976-77. His research interests are Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Micellar Catalysis, Hadronic Mechanics and Kinetics and Mechanisms of Cr(VI) Oxidation of Organic Compounds.