Dr. Ravi is Head of the Department of pharmaceutical analysis at NIPER- Ahmedabad. He has received his M.S. (Pharm) and PhD from NIPER, Mohali under the guidance of Prof. Saranjit Singh. Before joining back to academic research, he served at various levels in industry to understand the needs of pharma sector. He had started his career with Biocon-BMS research and development center, where he was responsible for analytical activities related to IND and NDA fillings of drug discovery leads. Post drug discovery understanding, he joined Dr. Reddy’s in 2015 as associate director and department head for Analytical R&D Bangalore facility to learn generic drug development. He gathered vast experience on analytical method development, and regulatory requirements pertaining to DMF/ ANDA fillings at US and EU. He also worked significantly on complex generics for getting pharmaceutical equivalence through robust CQA, CPP and CMA correlations through QbD approaches. He has published many research articles in almost every international analytical journal like Analytical Chemistry, Drug Testing and Analysis, Journal of Chromatogaphy A, Journal of Chromatogaphy B, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Methods, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Rapid communications in mass spectrometry etc. Currently, his lab at NIPER-Ahmedabad is working on diverse analytical fields including impurity profiling, drug-excipient compatibility studies, Dissolution studies, biomarker quantification to understand stress etc. His team also supports industries by solving their analytical and regulatory challenges.