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Current and Past Students

Post Docs and RAs

Ph.D from IICT, Hyderabad
Post. Doc. State University of New York at Buffalo.
Hobbies: Trekking, Chess, Wrestling
Working on “Developing Synthetic Strategies for Triplet Active Molecules”
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Dr. Sopan Wagalgave

Int. Ph.D from JNCASR
Hobbies: Reading, Drawing, Gardening
Working on “Exploring Chiral Supramolecular Polymers and Harvesting Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Self-assembled Supramolecular Systems”
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Dr. Darshana Deb

Ph.D from JNCASR
Hobbies: Reading, Dancing, Gardening
Working on “Exploring Diverse Supramolecular Approaches for Ambient Triplet Harvesting via Phosphorescence and Delayed Fluorescence”
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Dr. Anju Ajayan Kongasseri

Ph.D from IISER Mohali
Hobbies:Travelling, Dancing, Gardening
Strategies to Control the Supramolecular Polymerization via Photo-redox Processes”
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Dr. Sapna Singh

Ph.D Students

B.Sc from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya Bilaspur
Int. Ph.D from JNCASR
Hobbies: Playing badminton, Drawing, Gardening, Singing
Working on “Supramolecular Photo-redox Oscillators”
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Vandana Kushwaha

B.Sc from St.Xaviers
M.Sc from IIT Kharagpur
Hobbies: Comics, Anime, Board games, Playing keyboard, Table tennis
Working on “Effect of Macromolecular Crowding in Kinetically Controlled Supramolecular Polymerization”
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Keshavkrishna Mondal

B.Sc from Midnapore College
Int. Ph.D from JNCASR
Hobbies: Music, Playing cricket, Cooking, Poetry
Working on “Triplet Harvesting and Exploring their Chiral Properties”
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Debranjan Hati

B.Sc from Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly
M.Sc from NITK, Surathkal
Hobbies: Playing Carrom, Playing Volleyball, Playing Cricket, Trekking
Working on “Synthesis of Complex Supramolecular Architectures through Bio-inspired Approaches”
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Rahul Kumar

BS-MS from IISER Bhopal
Hobbies: Reading, Chess, Music, Video games, Swimming
Working on “Supramolecular Photo Catalysis and Photo Physics”
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Pravin Dharmaraj S.

B.Sc from City College, Calcutta University
M.Sc from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
Hobbies: Travelling, Anime, Playing badminton, Football
Working on “Liquid-liquid Phase Separation”
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Sohel Ali

B.Sc from Burdwan Raj College, The University of Burdwan
M.Sc from IIT Madras
Hobbies:Playing Cricket, Reading Novel
Working on “Harvesting Triplet State Emission from Organic Chromophores”
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Arghyadip Mandal

Int. M.Sc from Central University of Tamil Nadu.
Hobbies: Music and Writing
Working on “Hierarchical Topological Engineering of Supramolecular Polymers”
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Siddharth K S

B.Sc from K. E. College, Mannanam, Kottayam.
M.Sc from Central University of Tamil Nadu.
Hobbies: Reading, Singing, Gardening, and Sci-fi Web Series
Working on “Electricity-Controlled Supramolecular Polymerization”
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Aswanidev Suresh

M.S. STUDENT

Int. Ph.D. @JNCASR
Working on: Developing Stimuli Responsive Triplet-active materials.
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Sovan Kundu

Post Docs and RAs

Post. Doc. @State University of New York at Buffalo.
Working on: Developing Synthetic strategies for Triplet-active molecules
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Sopan Wagalgave

Research Associate
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Satyajit Patra

PAs and PGDMS

MS from IISER Pune

Sundaravalli Narayanan

MS Students

B.Sc from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.
Hobbies: Playing Badminton and Chess.
Working on “Supramolecular Strategies for Efficient Triplet Harvesting”
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Shreenidhi D S

PGDMS Students

B.Sc from Bengaluru City University, Bengaluru.
M.Sc from St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru.
Hobbies: Fibre Arts, Anime, Museum Hopping.
Working on “Photophysics and Photocatalysis”
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Aparna Arun

PAS and Interns

Ifa Rufaida CT​

Ifa Rufaida CT

Ph.D Alumni
Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT-Hyderabad

Dr. K. Venkat Rao

Current position:Junior Leader Fellow
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Mohit Kumar

Current position:Assistant Professor St. Joseph College, Bangalore

Dr. N. Bhawani

Current position:Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

Dr. Chidambar Kulkarni

Current position:Assistant Professor. Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA

Dr. Ankit Jain

Current position:Post Doc. under Prof. M. Webber, University of Notre Dame, USA

Dr. Krishnendu Jalani

Current position:Post Doc. under Prof. S. Mann, University of Bristol, UK

Dr. Ananya Mishra

Current position:Post Doc. with Prof. Seth Marder, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Dr. Suman Kuila

Current position: Assistant Professor, IISER Berhampur.

Dr. Aritra Sarkar

Current position:Post doc under Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany

Dr. Swadhin Garain

Current position:Post doc under Professor Oren A. Scherman, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Dr. Souvik Sarkar

Current position:Junior Professor, University of Mainz, Germany

Dr. Shikha Dhiman

Current position: Post Doc. with Prof. E.W. Meijer , Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

Dr. Saikat Ghosh

Current position:Post Doc. with Prof. Jan van Hest, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

Dr. Angshuman Das

Current position: Post Doc. with Prof. E.W. Meijer , Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

Dr. Satyajit Patra

Dr. Meenal Kataria

Dr. Meenal Kataria

Assistant Professor at Chandigarh University

Dr. Surbhi Sharma

Ph. D. @ Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain

Akhil Venugopal

Dr. Kamna Sharma

Dr. Kamna Sharma

Dr. Pallabi Samaddar

Dr. Pallabi Samaddar

Assistant Professor at St. Joseph College

Dr. Rita Ghosh

Post doc. at Weizmann Institute of Science

Dr. Arpita Paikar

Dr. Akanksha Prakash

Dr. Akanksha Prakash

Assistant Professor at St. Joseph College

Dr. Sreenivasulu Bandi

Dr. Raja Bhaskar

Dr. Raja Bhaskar

Post doc at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Dr. Chandan Giri

PhD student under Prof. Gonen Ashkenasy, Israel

Bhawna

Project student (2021-2022).
Current position- Ph.D. student under Prof. Leonard Prins, Italy

Vijay

Assistant Prof @ Presidency University, Bangalore

Dr. Shagufi Naz Ansari

Assistant Professor, Manipur University

Dr. Raju Laishram

Scientist
Motorpharma, Budapest

Dr. Sushmitha Chandrabhas

Currently at IIT Hyderabad.

Papiya Sadhu

PGDMS (2020-2021).
Current position- Ph.D. Student under Prof. Maria Ibáñez, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria (ISTA).

Aiswarya R P

PGDMS (2022-2023).
Current position- Ph.D. Student under Prof.Dr. Andreas Steffen, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.

Ananya Anilkumar ​

PGDMS (2023-2024).
Current position- Ph.D. Student under Dr. Mahesh Kumar Gangishetty, Mississippi State University, USA.

K Palani Ganesh

PGDMS (2024-2025).
Current position- Ph.D. Student under Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany.

Sundaravalli Narayanan

MS Student (2022-2025).

Sovan Kundu

Awards

  • 2023 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, JACS (ACS).
  • 2021: CNR Rao National Prize for Chemical Sciences by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
  • 2020 – Present: Associate Editor, Chemical Science (RSC).
  • 2020: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Award in Chemical Sciences.
  • 2020 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Organic Materials (Thieme).
  • 2019 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Chem (Cell Press).
  • 2019: Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
  • 2018 – Present: Member of ChemNanoMat (Wiley) Editorial Board.
  • 2017: Recipient of SwarnaJayanti Fellowship.
  • 2017: Author Profile in Angewandte Chemie for publishing 10 articles in 10 years.
  • 2017 – Present: Member of Material Horizons (RSC) Editorial Advisory Board.
  • 2016: JSPS Short-Term Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  • 2016: Recipient of Asian Photochemistry Association (APA) Young Scientist Award.
  • 2015: NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in Chemistry.
  • 2015 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Chemistry of Materials (ACS).
  • 2015: CRSI Bronze Medal.
  • 2014-2015: Sheikh Saqr Career Award Fellow, JNCASR.
  • 2014: Emerging Investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
  • 2013: MRSI Medal.
  • 2012: Emerging Investigator by Chemical Communications.
  • 2011: Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences.
  • 2007: Poster Award at First Aquitaine Conference for Polymers, Arcachon, France, October 16-19.
  • 2004: Best Poster Award at 6th National Symposium in Chemistry, Kanpur, India, February 6-8.
  • 2003-2004: Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Government of India.
  • 2001-2003: Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, Government of India.
  • 2002: Best Poster Award at 4th National Symposium in Chemistry, Pune, February 1-3.
  • 2000: First Rank in M.Sc. Organic Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.
  • 2000: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
  • 2000: Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship.
  • 2026: National Prize for Research in Supramolecular Chemistry awarded by the CNR Rao Education Foundation.
  • 2025: Elected as Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) 2025.
  • 2025: JC Bose Grant 2025, a prestigious research grant from ANRF India. 
  • 2024: G.D. Birla award for Scientific Research for the year 2024 by K K Birla Foundation, New Delhi.
  • 2023 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, JACS (ACS).
  • 2021: CNR Rao National Prize for Chemical Sciences by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
  • 2020 – Present: Associate Editor, Chemical Science (RSC).
  • 2020: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Award in Chemical Sciences.
  • 2020 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Organic Materials (Thieme).
  • 2019 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Chem (Cell Press).
  • 2019: Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
  • 2018 – Present: Member of ChemNanoMat (Wiley) Editorial Board.
  • 2017: Recipient of SwarnaJayanti Fellowship.
  • 2017: Author Profile in Angewandte Chemie for publishing 10 articles in 10 years.
  • 2017 – Present: Member of Material Horizons (RSC) Editorial Advisory Board.
  • 2016: JSPS Short-Term Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
  • 2016: Recipient of Asian Photochemistry Association (APA) Young Scientist Award.
  • 2015: NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in Chemistry.
  • 2015 – Present: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Chemistry of Materials (ACS).
  • 2015: CRSI Bronze Medal.
  • 2014-2015: Sheikh Saqr Career Award Fellow, JNCASR.
  • 2014: Emerging Investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
  • 2013: MRSI Medal.
  • 2012: Emerging Investigator by Chemical Communications.
  • 2011: Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences.
  • 2007: Poster Award at First Aquitaine Conference for Polymers, Arcachon, France, October 16-19.
  • 2004: Best Poster Award at 6th National Symposium in Chemistry, Kanpur, India, February 6-8.
  • 2003-2004: Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Government of India.
  • 2001-2003: Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, Government of India.
  • 2002: Best Poster Award at 4th National Symposium in Chemistry, Pune, February 1-3.
  • 2000: First Rank in M.Sc. Organic Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.
  • 2000: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
  • 2000: Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship.
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