Dr. Gurpur Rakesh D. Prabhu

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Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsSpectroscopy,Analytical Chemistry
Keywordsreaction intermediates, biomolecules, instrumentation science, laboratory automation, ion mobility spectrometry, mass spectrometry, electrospray ionization, Cryogenic gas-phase infrared ion spectroscopy
Honours and awards

2021: Award for Excellent Research Achievements of Graduate Students (years 2016, 2019, 2020, & 2021), National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Jan 2021 - Jul 2022), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

2020: Research Scholarship for International Graduate Students by CTCI Foundation, Taiwan.

2017: NCTU Travel Grant for Mass Spectrometry conference (ASMS), Indianapolis, USA.

2016: NCTU Travel Grant for Gakushuin University-NCTU symposium, Tokyo, Japan.

2016: Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship Award (years 2016-2020), National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

2011: Meritorious Service Award, St. Aloysius College, India, for organizing science popularization programs in local schools.

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionFreie Universität Berlin
InstituteInstitut für Chemie und Biochemie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Kevin PagelInstitut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gert HeldenInstitut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2024

Programme(s)

2024Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Szekeres, G.P.; Jordan, J.S.; Riedel, J.; Horlebein, J.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Götze, M.; Daly, S.; Warnke, S.; Pagel, K.: Cryogenic Gas-phase IR Spectroscopy on a Commercial Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Platform. In: Analytical Chemistry, 98, 2026, 14800-14808
2026Safferthal, M.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Torres-Boy, A.Y.; Riedel, J.; Bechtella, L.; Pietsch, W.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Vos, G.M.; Pagel, K.: Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy Unmasks Gas-Phase Charge Migration in Mucin-Type O-Glycans. In: Small, n/a, 2026, e00077
2026Torres-Boy, A.Y.; Han, J.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Taccone, M.I.; Ghosh, A.; Buttkus, H.; Ober, K.; Meijer, G.; Asmis, K.R.; McCoy, A.B.; von Helden, G.: Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Deprotonated Dimer of Phosphoric Acid. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 130, 2026, 993-1005
2026Walton-Doyle, C.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Geue, N.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Pagel, K.: Steroid Fingerprinting with Cryogenic Gas-Phase Infrared Spectroscopy. In: ACS Measurement Science Au, 2026, in press
2025Prabhu, G.R.D.; Götze, M.; Greis, K.; Torres-Boy, A.Y.; Safferthal, M.; Strzelecka, D.; Kirschbaum, C.; Deshpande, N.D.; Geue, N.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Pagel, K.: Cryogenic Gas-Phase Infrared Ion Spectroscopy of Ultraviolet-Induced Nucleotide Photoproducts. In: Analytical Chemistry, 97, 2025, 26868-26876
2025Geue, N.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Renzi, E.; Walton-Doyle, C.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Pagel, K.: Distinguishing Isomeric Caffeine Metabolites through Protomers and Tautomers Using Cryogenic Gas-Phase Infrared Spectroscopy. In: Analytical Chemistry, 97, 2025, 21740-21747
2025Chang, C.-W.; Wehner, D.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Moon, E.; Safferthal, M.; Bechtella, L.; Österlund, N.; Vos, G.M. Pagel, K.: Elucidating reactive sugar-intermediates by mass spectrometry. In: Communications Chemistry, 8, 2025, 67
2024Chang, C.-W.; Greis, K.; Prabhu, G.R.D.; Wehner, D.; Kirschbaum, C.; Ober, K.; Torres-Boy, A.Y.; Leichnitz, S.; Meijer, G.; von Helden, G.; Seeberger, P.H.; Pagel, K.: Mechanistic insight into benzylidene-directed glycosylation reactions using cryogenic infrared spectroscopy. In: Nature Synthesis, 3, 2024, 1377--1384