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Prof. Faiz Ahmed Khan

Organic Chemistry

Transition Metal-mediated reactions in organic synthesis,Discovery of New Methodologies and Control of Stereochemistry in organic synthesis,Chemical Synthesis in Ionic Liquids, and Supported Catalysts,Synthesis of Natural and aesthetically pleasing.

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Prof. Ch. Subrahmanyam

Physical Chemistry

Catalysis, Nanomaterials and Energy Systems.

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Prof. G. Satyanarayana

Organic Chemistry

Transition Metal Catalysis, Remote C-H Activation, Electrochemical Organic Synthesis, Photocatalysis, Green Chemistry, Domino Transformations, Development of new methodologies, Total synthesis, and Drug diversity-oriented synthesis.

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Prof. M. Deepa

Physical Chemistry

Synthesis and electrochemistry of transition metal oxides, conducting polymers and composites, electrochromic films and devices.

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Prof. Tarun Kanti Panda

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis

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Prof. G. Prabusankar

Inorganic Chemistry

Organometallic Synthesis, Late Transition Metal Chemistry, Heavier Main Group P-block Chemistry, Catalysis, Light Emitting Molecules

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Prof. Bhabani Shankar Mallik

Computational Chemistry

Computational Catalysis and Electrochemistry, DFT Calculations,Spectroscopy, Battery Electrodes and Electrolytes, Reaction Mechanism.

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Prof. Surendra Kumar Martha

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry especially Materials Science, Energy Storage Materials, Electrochemistry and Spectroscopy.

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Prof. Chilla Malla Reddy

Organic Chemistry

Crystal Engineering & Supramolecular Chemistry, Self-healing Crystals, Flexible Functional Materials, Solid-State Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Tabletability), Structure-Mechanical Property Relationship.

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Dr. Somnath Maji (Associate Prof.)

Inorganic Chemistry

Synthetic Coordination/Bio-Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry. Metal catalyzed Water Splitting/Carbon Dioxide Reduction/Hydrogen Generation. Applications of molecular catalysts in functional devices for production of solar fuels.

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Dr. Jai Prakash (Associate Prof.)

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry, Strongly Correlated Materials for Thermoelectric & Superconducting Applications, Small Molecule Crystallography, Metal Chalcogenides & Intermetallics.

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Dr. Sivakumar Vaidyanathan (Associate Prof.)

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry, Lanthanide Luminescence, Phosphor Materials, Organic fluorophores for Organic light emitting diodes, Pure Organic-Room temperature phosphorescence.

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Dr. Surajit Maity (Associate Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Spectroscopic characterization of non-covalently bound molecular clusters; spectroscopy and dynamics of transient species; chemical evolution of interstellar, planetary ices.

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Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Mishra (Associate Prof.)

Organic Chemistry

Bio-organic Chemistry.

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Dr. Venkata Rao Kotagiri (Associate Prof.)

Organic Chemistry

Functional Organic Materials and Supramolecular.

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Dr. Krishna Gavvala (Assistant Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Biophysical Chemistry, Time-Resolved Spectroscopy and Single-Molecule Characterisation.

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Dr. Saurabh Kumar Singh (Assistant Prof.)

Computational Chemistry

Computational Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Magnetism, Electronic Structure Theory, Heavy Element Chemistry, Reaction Modelling, Molecular Spectroscopy.

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Dr. Narendra Kurra (Assistant Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Materials (electro)chemistry, Energy Storage, Two-dimensional Transition metal carbides and Nitrides(MXenes), 3D printing, Multivalent metal-ion batteries, Micropower sources for filtering applications.

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Dr. Koyel Banerjee Ghosh (Assistant Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Spin dependent electrochemistry and its application, surface chemistry, spin-dependent electron transfer through protein, molecular elctronics.

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Dr. Kishore Natte (Assistant Prof.)

Organic Chemistry

Organofluorine chemistry, Utilization of CO2 and renewable substances, Heterogeneous Catalysis for sustainable organic transformations, C-H activation/functionalization.

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Dr. Sudarsanam Putla (Assistant Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Heterogeneous catalysis, nanosized and shape-controlled metal-based catalysts, biomass conversion, selective C-N coupling reactions, green chemistry.

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Dr. Abhijit Sau (Assistant Prof.)

Organic Chemistry

Organic Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry & Glycoscience.

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Dr. Arup Mahata (Assistant Prof.)

Computational Chemistry

Computational Materials Science, First-Principles Calculations, Density Functional Theory, Perovskites Optoelectronics, Surface Catalysis (Electrochemical, Photoelectrochemical, Thermochemical), Molecular Catalysis, Spintronics, Energy Storage Materials.

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Dr. Priyadarshi Chakraborty (Assistant Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Supramolecular biomaterials, Rheology of gels, Conductive polymers, Tissue Engineering, Peptide/amino acid-based co-assembly, Drug delivery.

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Dr. Debasish Koner (Assistant Prof.)

Computational Chemistry

Computational Chemistry, Machine Learning in Chemistry, Machine Learning in Medical Diagnosis, Biomarker Discovery, Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Molecular Spectroscopy. Atmospheric and Astro-chemistry.

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Dr. M. Annadhasan (Assistant Prof.)

Physical Chemistry

Materials chemistry, Organic/inorganic flexible crystals, Mechano-photonics, Optical waveguides, Optical resonators, Photonic integrated circuits, Plasmonic nanoparticles, Stimuli-responsive materials, Single-particle photonic studies.

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Dr. Anup. Bhunia (Assistant Prof.)

Organic Chemistry

Organic Chemistry and Catalysis, Electrochemistry, Photochemistry, Solid-state redox chemistry

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Dr. Tarali Devi (Assistant Prof.)

Inorganic Chemistry

Bioinspired bioinorganic chemistry, modelling small molecule (O2, N2, NO, CO, H2O, CH4) activation, spectroscopic trapping/isolation of reactive-intermediates, biomimetic-catalysis.

Adjunct Professors

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Prof. Vasudevanpillai Biju

Chemistry

Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor and the Director of the Promotion office of International Alliance at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University.

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Prof. Vadapalli Chandrasekhar

Chemistry

Prof. Vadapalli Chandrasekhar is an Indian inorganic and organometallic chemist and is currently a distinguished professor at IIT Kanpur and was the centre director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad.

Honorary Professors

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Prof. Srivari Chandrasekhar

Chemistry

Prof. Srivari Chandrasekhar, the former Director of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) is a renowned synthetic organic chemist. He was also the Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.