Personal Information
  1. Born, May 1961, Thiruvalla, Kerala, India
  2. Present Position: Scientist E II
  3. Photosciences and Photonics, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology (formerly, Regional Research Laboratory)
  4. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Trivandrum 695 019, India
  5. (Honorary Faculty Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore since 2006)

Work Experience

  1. Scientist (July, 1994 –to-date) at the Photosciences and Photonics Group, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Trivandrum, India.
  2. Junior Research Fellow (1985-1987) and Senior Research Fellow (1987-1989) of the Council ofScientific and Industrial Research, (with Late Professor K. Saramma, Department of Chemistry,University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India).
  3. Research Associate (1989-1994) at the Photoscience and Photonics of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, (CSIR), Trivandrum, 695 019 (with Professor M. V. George,Photosciences and Photonics, NIIST).
  4. Visiting Scientist, Radiation laboratory, University of Notre Dame, USA, Jan-Nov 1999; May-July 2003 and Aug-Sept 2004: Nov 2005. (Radiation laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA).