CAREER & EDUCATION
April-2014 - Present DST-INSPIRE Faculty and AcSIR-Assistant Professor, Polymer Division,CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai-600020, India,
November 2010 - October 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry Northwestern University. Advisor: Prof. J Fraser Stoddart
August 2005 - November 2010 PhD in Chemistry, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Trivandrum, India. Kerala University
Advisor: Prof. A. Ajayaghosh
July 2003 - July 2005 M.Sc Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), India
June 2000- May 2005 B.Sc Chemistry D.G. Vaishnav College, Madras University, India
Researcher ID: C-6704-2008
AWARD & HONORS
2014 DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award – April 2014 to March 2019
2013 Post doctoral Fellowship WCU - KAIST, Korea February, 2013- March-2014.
2010 Post doctoral Fellowship Northwestern University November, 2010 – October 2012.
2010 Young Scientist Award- 22nd Kerala Science Congress, India, January 28-31, 2010.
2009 Best Oral Presentation Award- 5th JNC Research Conference on Chemistry of Materials
2008 Best Poster Presentation Award- International Conference on Functional Materials, IIT Madras.
2008 Indo-French (IFCPAR) Exchange Fellow, Institute Charles Sadron, CNRS, France, .
2007 Best Presentation Award -ICYS-ICMR Summer School on Nanomaterials, NIMS. Tsukuba, Japan,
2007 Senior Research Fellowship from UGC/CISR
2005 Junior Research Fellowship from UGC/CISR
2005 Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship.
2003 Gold Medalist- Best outgoing student - College topper in main and all allied subjects B.Sc
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewr for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, RSC Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, RSC Advances, RSC Nanoscale
Message: I
was born and raised in a beautiful seashore city, Chennai and it is the
fourth largest metropolitan city in India. I have done my B.Sc in
chemistry at Madras university, Chennai. I completed my M.Sc degree in
chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. After that I
qualified a national level entrance examination for research fellowship.
In 2005, I moved to Trivandrum for my PhD under the supervision of Dr.
A. Ajayaghosh. During my stay in Trivandrum, I mainly involved in the
design and study of advanced functional materials based on carbon
nanotubes and conjugated organic molecules. My thesis was entitled as
“Self-assembled Functional Hybrid Materials: Design of Stable
Organogels, Superhydrophobic Coatings and Fluorescent Imaging Materials.
In November 2010, I joined the Stoddart Research Group as a
postdoctoral fellow. Then In November 2011, I joined as joint
postdoctoral fellow in Coskun Group. Then I received DST-INSPIRE Faculty
Award and joined CSIR-CLRI, India.
