Rubal Sharma, M.Sc.

Curriculum Vitae
since 04/2026 PhD Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, University of Münster 04/2024 - 03/2026 Master’s Thesis, Department of Data-Driven Synthetic Organic Chemistry for Medicinal and Material Applications, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Osaka, Japan 04/2023 - 03/2024 Research Student, Department of Data-Driven Synthetic Organic Chemistry for Medicinal and Material Applications, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Osaka, Japan 07/2018 - 03/2024 Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, India Awards and Scholarships
2026 Yakuyukai Prize for Excellent Master’s Thesis Research, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Osaka 2025 Maruho Travel Grant for the Pacifichem Conference 2024 Top 10 Most Cited Paper in Chirality among papers published in 2024 2023 - 2026 Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship, The University of Osaka, Japan Publications
T. Z. Aye, R. Sharma, M. Arisawa, M. S. H. Salem, S. Takizawa,
Electrosynthetic access to unsymmetrical oxaza[8]helicenes with high chiral stability and strong circularly polarized luminescence (CPL),
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2026, 22, 372-382.R. Sharma, M. Arisawa, S. Takizawa, M. S. H. Salem,
Remodeling Molecular Frameworks via Atom-Level Surgery: Recent Advances in Skeletal Editing of (Hetero)Cycles,
Org. Chem. Front. 2025, 12, 1633. (Featured as hot article and Highly Cited Research since 2023)M. S. H. Salem, , R. Sharma, S. Suzuki, Y. Imai, M. Arisawa, S. Takizawa,
Impact of Helical Elongation of Symmetric Oxa[n]helicenes on Their Structural, Photophysical, and Chiroptical Characteristics,
Chirality 2024, 36, e23673.M. S. H. Salem, R. Sharma, M. I. Khalid, M. Sasi, R. Amasaki, Y. Imai, M. Arisawa, S. Takizawa,
Data-driven Electrochemical One-pot Synthesis of Double Hetero [7] dehydrohelicene,
Electrochemistry 2023, 91, 112015.Research Experience
2023 - 2026 Data-Guided Optimization of Electrochemical Reactions Enabling Short Step Access to Optoelectronically Active π-Systems and Arene Functionalization;
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Shinobu Takizawa and Prof. Dr. Mitsuhiro Arisawa, The University of Osaka, Japan