Dr. Rohan D. Erande earned his B.Sc. (2006) and M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) in 2008 from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and then joined the laboratory of Prof. Dattatraya H. Dethe at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), Uttar Pradesh, where he earned his doctoral degree (In 2015) in the field of Natural Product Synthesis. Along with the Ph.D. degree, he was also recipient of the prestigious Eli-Lilly Asia Outstanding Thesis Award for the year of 2015. Subsequently, he joined Professor K. C. Nicolaou’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (2015-2018). Furthermore, February 2019 – April 2019, he worked at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Alois Fürstner before he offered an Assistant Professor position from IIT Jodhpur. He began his independent career in April 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan. From January 2025, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur, where his current research is focused on the method development and its application to the total synthesis of biologically active natural products.

His research group mainly focused on method development particularly organometallic catalysis and Lewis acid catalysed cascade reactions to resolve the complexity of targeted natural products to achieve the total synthesis in a short and efficient way. An aiming to target potent drug molecules with new mechanisms of action, his group is exploring the field of medicinal chemistry by collaboration with bio-laboratories and pharmaceutical companies towards drug discovery and development.

Research Objectives:

• Lewis acid catalysis
• Organometallic catalysis
• Cascade reactions
• Natural Product Synthesis
• Medicinal Chemistry