Dinesh Murugan

Highly self-motivated Senior Scientist with 9 years of industrial and academic experience in synthetic organic chemistry, agrochemicals, and medicinal chemistry. Proven expertise in route design, scale-up, and patentable process development and polymorph screening and solid-state characterization using PXRD, DSC, and TGA. Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver stable, scalable, and regulatory-compliant chemical entities.

Seeking a senior scientific or leadership role to drive strategic innovation.

Senior Manager – R&D - Tagros Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd. - Chennai

(2017-05)

• Lead a team of 7–8 research scientists on agrochemical development projects.
• Drive polymorph screening and solid-state evaluation using PXRD, DSC, and TGA to isolate stable crystalline forms for regulatory filings.
• Design and develop patentable synthetic routes for key agrochemical intermediates.
• Conduct in-depth literature and patent searches to support project feasibility and IP protection.
• Optimize chemical processes for safety, reproducibility, yield, and cost efficiency.
• Prepare project costing sheets, timelines, resource planning, and risk assessments.
• Plan and execute laboratory experiments aligned with project milestones.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly progress reports to the Head of Department.
• Conduct impurity synthesis and characterization for multi-batch regulatory studies.

Trainee Scientist – Medicinal Chemistry - Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. - Chennai

(2010-05 - 2011-04)

• Involved in new drug discovery research.
• Synthesized, purified, and characterized small molecules using modern chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques.

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Organic Chemistry - Madurai Kamaraj University (2012-02 - 2018-07)

Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Organic Chemistry - Madurai Kamaraj University (2008 - 2010)