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Faculty Members in the School of Chemistry

Faculty Members

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Dr Adithya Lakshmanna
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 8305
  adithya@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Ultrafast Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy, Quantum Coherences, Molecular Structure and Dynamics

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Dr Ayan Mukherjee
Assistant Professor Grade I
  ayan.mukherjee@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Medicinal Chemistry , Organic synthesis, Chemical biology, Computational drug discovery.

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Dr Jerry A. Fereiro
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778311
  jerryfereiro@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Molecular electronics, Bio-electronics, Quantum charge transport, Nano device fabrication & Low temperature experiments.

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Dr Pushpita Ghosh
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778308
  pushpita@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chemical Physics and Biological Physics: Statistical mechanics, Nonlinear dynamics

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Dr Rajendra Kurapati
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - +91-4712778306
  rkurapati@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry, 2D Materials, Biodegradation of Nanomaterials, Nanotoxicology, Drug Delivery, Antimicrobial Coatings, Biomimetics

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Dr Ramaraj Ayyappan
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778320
  ramaraj.ayyappan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Inorganic, Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry,Bond Activation and Functionalization of Small Molecules (CO2, N2), Reversible Hydrogen Storage Using Metal Hydrides,Hydrogenation Reactions in Catalysis

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Dr Ravi Yadav
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778337
  raviyadav@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Structurally Constrained Compounds, Lewis Superacids, Electromerism, Low-Valent Main Group Chemistry

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Dr Soumen De
Assistant Professor Grade I
  +91 (0)471 - 2778249
  soumende@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Supramolecular Chemistry; Molecular Switches and Machines; Foldamer Chemistry

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Dr Sreejith Jayasree Varma
Assistant Professor Grade I
  varma@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Metabolic chemistry, Organic synthesis, Chemical biology and Mass spectrometry

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Dr A Muthukrishnan
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778104
  muthukrishnan@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Fuel cell electro-catalysis, platinum-free catalysts for the cathodic reduction of oxygen in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

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Dr A. Thirumurugan
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778092
  thiru@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Materials Chemistry - Metal organic frameworks, metal oxide clusters and nano composites for molecular separation, optical and conducting properties.

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Dr Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778050
  alagiri@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Developing new methods, Activation and functionalization of relatively unreactive C–H bonds, Asymmetric Catalysis, Synthesis of Natural Products

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Dr Basudev Sahoo
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778253
  basudev@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Catalysis for Sustainable Organic Synthesis: Transition Metal-Catalysis, Photocatalysis, Metal-Free Coupling Reactions

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Dr Gokulnath Sabapathi
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778052
  gokul@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Macrocyclic systems, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Planar Aromatic and Antiaromatic systems, Porphyrin based Dye-Sensitized Solar cells (DSSC)

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Dr Rajendar Goreti
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778049
  rajendar@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Asymmetric Total Synthesis Natural Product Molecules, Asymmetric Catalysis, and Medicinal Chemistry.

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Dr Ramesh Rasappan
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778051
  rr@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Asymmetric Catalysis and Cross-Coupling Reactions

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Dr Subrata Kundu
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778048
  skundu@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Catalysis, Bioinorganic Chemistry

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Dr Veera Reddy Yatham
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778244
  reddy@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Radical Chemistry in Organic Synthesis

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Dr Vennapusa Sivaranjana Reddy
Associate Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778057
  siva@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

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Prof Ajay Venugopal
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778076
  venugopal@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Main Group Chemistry

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Prof K. George Thomas
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778040
  kgt@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Photochemistry & photophysics, Hybrid nanomaterials, Light-matter interactions at nanoscale, Raman Spectroscopy using nanomaterials, Organized surfaces

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Prof Kana M. Sureshan
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778064
  kms@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Organic Synthesis, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Methodology Development, Crystal Engineering, Soft Materials

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Prof Mahesh Hariharan
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778101
  mahesh@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Physical Organic Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry

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Prof R. S. Swathi
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778079
  swathi@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Theoretical Chemistry

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Prof Reji Varghese
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778074
  reji@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Supramolecular chemistry with DNA, and Functional DNA nanotechnology

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Prof Sukhendu Mandal
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778107
  sukhendu@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Biomass to liquid transportation fuel, Alkane metathesis, Cluster-Assembled Materials

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Prof Vinesh Vijayan
Professor
  +91 (0)471 - 2778083
  vinesh@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

NMR spectroscopy, Structure biology, Neurodegenerative Diseases

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Prof J N Moorthy
Professor & Director
  +91 (0)471 - 2778001
  director@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

(Physical Organic Chemistry)
Organic Photochemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Organic Materials and Mechanistic Organic Chemistry

Emeritus Faculty

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Prof Shyamalava Mazumdar
Emeritus Professor
  shyamalava@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Metalloproteins, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Nanobiotechnology, Bioelectrochemistry

Honorary, Adjunct, and Visiting Faculty

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Dr Ajayaghosh Ayyappanpillai
Adjunct Professor
  NIIST Trivandrum
  ajayaghosh@niist.res.in
Research Area

Functional Organic Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry

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Prof R B Sunoj
Adjunct Professor
  IIT Bombay
  sunoj@iitb.ac.in
Research Area

Machine Learning

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Prof Suresh Das
Honorary Professor
  sureshdas@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Photoresponsive Materials, Self-Assembly, Near Infrared Dyes

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Prof Ajayan Vinu
Visiting Professor
  University of Newcastle, Australia
  ajayan.vinu@newcastle.edu.au
Research Area

Advanced Nanomaterials

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Prof N Satyamurthy
Visiting Professor
  JNCASR, Bangalore
   nsath@iisermohali.ac.in
Research Area

Theoretical Chemistry

Faculty Fellow

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Dr T. Shyamala
DST Women Scientist
  +91 (0)471 - 2778155
  tshyama@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Quantum dots, Fluorescence spectrosocpy

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Dr Keshaba Nanda Parida
Pool Scientist, CSIR
  +91 (0)471 - 2778155
  pkesh@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Organic Synthesis, Organic Mol-electronics

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Dr Indranil Mondal
Ramanujan Faculty
  +91 (0)471 - 2778337
  i.mondal@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Colloidal synthesis (semiconductor, intermetallics), bulk single-crystal materials, Surface studies under photocatalytic and electrocatalytic conditions, Coupled/paired electrolysis

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Dr K. R. Krishnadas
Ramanujan Fellowship
  krishnadas@iisertvm.ac.in
Research Area

Chiral Inorganic and Bio materials, Chiral Assemblies, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, nanomaterials

Former Faculty Members

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Prof E. D. Jemmis
Former Director
  Professor, IISc Bangalore
  jemmis@iisc.ac.in
Research Area

Applied Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

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Prof Ayan Datta
Former Professor
  IACS, Kolkata
  spad@iacs.res.in
Research Area

computational chemistry of molecules, materials and aggregates