G. D. Yadav

Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav, known as G. D. Yadav, born in 1952, is an Indian chemical engineer, educator and academic and president of the Indian Chemical Society. He has contributed to green chemistry, catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, process development and nanotechnology, and his research spans biomass valorization, green hydrogen production and carbon dioxide utilization, with over 570 peer-reviewed publications and 136 patents. Born in the village of Arjunwada in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, he took a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering at the University Department of Chemical Technology of Bombay University in 1974 and a doctorate under Man Mohan Sharma there in 1980. He was the founding Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai from 2009 to 2019, where he is now an emeritus professor of eminence. He received the Padma Shri in 2016 and is a fellow of several national and international academies of science, engineering and inventors.