Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Registrar

Profile

Dr. Raakhi Gupta is presently Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Registrar at IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur. She is also Professor of Chemistry and has more than 30 years of academic and administrative experience. A highly meritorious student, a gold medallist, Dr. Gupta has had an illustrious academic career, which includes a Summer Research Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences at IIT, Mumbai and a Summer School at New Hampshire, USA, among many others. She is actively involved in research and has about 33 research papers published in National and International Journals of repute. Besides guiding 8 Ph.D. scholars, she has also presented papers abroad in intermational conferences and in India as well. Her current research interests include organophosphorus chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry and computational chemistry with an emphasis on determination of reaction mechanism. She has co-ordinated two Erasmus + funded projects, Tuning India and Tuning RISHII (Resources for Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions in India) in which IIS University partnered with University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain. She has been bestowed upon several awards including Women’s Progression Award (in recognition of her contribution in the field of education), Avantika Shikshak Samman (Avantika Teachers’ Felicitation) etc. Recently, she received Change Maker Humanity Award in Edu-Leader category(University), presented by Bharat Soka Gakkai in recognition of her outstanding efforts and contribution in the field of education. She is actively involved in community outreach activities and has served as District Governor of the Rotary International District 3056 for the year 2024-25.