SUPERVISORS

RESEARCH SUPERVISORS

Name	Specialisation	Research Area
Prof. Shrikant Kukreti	Organic	Multi- stranded DNA structures, anti gene, antisense strategies, biomolecular interactions, drug DNA interactions using biophysical and biochemical methods.
Prof. Rama Kant	Physical	Diffusion to complex electrochemical and biological interfaces electric double layer in charged rough and thermally modulated membranes and liquid-liquid interfaces, polymers, wetting, developing mathematical models and techniques concerning boundary value problems involving complex geometries.
Prof. D. S. Rawat	Organic	Design and synthesis of genotoxic and non genotoxic anticancer agents trixanes, tetraoxanes, and trioxane/tetraoxane aminoquinoline based modular molecules as antimalarial agents process development of novel drugs and drug intermediates, developments of new catalysts, heterocyclic and supermolecular chemistry.
Prof. Sunil K Sharma	Organic	Design and development of new selective transformations, total synthesis of complex molecules of biological sisgnificance development of enantio-, regio- or chemoselective reactions use of a variety of techniques including spectroscopy, enzymology, chemical synthesis and biomolecule synthesis and engineering role (s) of weak interactions in macromolecular complexes, preparation of analogue, nucleosides or other non nuceosides entities that are incorporated into
Prof. S. K. Awasthi	Organic	Peptide synthesis, PNA technology, antisense approach and combinatorial chemistry
Prof. Subho Mozumdar	Physical	Bio physical chemistry of protiens and DNA, protein- DNA interactions, drug-DNA delivery.
Prof. Rajeev Gupta	Inorganic	Bio-inorganic chemistry , bio- mimetic oxidation chemistry mediated by transition metal ions, catalysis, supermolecular and coordination chemistry.
Prof. Natesan Thirupathi	Inorganic	Develoment of homogeneous catalysts for metal mediated organic transformations with special emphasis on their preparation, structure, reactivity, and applications in organic transformations, investigation of the structure, reactivity and the bonding aspects of non- metal rings and cages that would find applications as, for example non-ionic bases and super-bases in organic transformations.
Prof. Mahendra Nath	Organic	Synthesis and efficient peripheral functionalization of poryphrins and biomimmetic metallo-poryphrins to design unique designs of poryphrinic enediynes as photo-theraupetic agents for photo dynamic therapy applications .
Prof. R. Nagarajan	Physical	Multiscale modelling and stimulations at the nanoscale, statistical theory of protein folding and combinatorial protein design; Statistical designs and molecular dynamics stimulation of bio polymers such as proteins , DNA and membranes; statistical mechanics and dynamics of branched polymers and polymer networks; rheology of complex fluids.
Prof. R. Nagarajan	Inorganic	Material syntheis (bulk and thin film), structural characterization and transport property measurements , structure- property relationship in solid and thin films.
Prof. S. Uma	Inorganic	Synthesis of new materials (mesoporous , microporous and nanoscale) crystal strucure evaluation, structure property relationships , oxide-ion conductors and photocatalysts of environmental remediation
Prof. M. Thirumal	Physical	Solid-State Chemistry
Prof. A. K. Verma	Organic	Design of Benzotriozole based novel and inexpensive ligands for copper and palladium-catalyzed C-n(N-arylation ), C-S (S-Arylation) C-C (Suzuki Sonogashira and Heck) coupling reactions; Regeoselective tandem synthesis of variety of poly hetrocycles natural products and π- conjugated organic materials by copper and palladium catalyzed reactions, Metal catalyzed synthesis of natural products like scaffolds by the tandom/cascade reaction
Prof. M. D. Milton	Organic	Design and synthesis of fluorescent sensors; design and synthesis of advance materials, development of new methodologies for functional group transformations; synthesis of novel heterocyclic compounds and their applications, organocatalysis, transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, development of multi-catalyst systems for organic transformations..
Prof. Indrajit Roy	Physical	Physical Chemistry, Material Science, Nanomedicine, Biophotonics
Prof. P. Venkatesu	Physical	Biophysical Chemistry, Polymer behaviour in coexisting liquid phases . Thermodynamic properties of non-electrolyte systems.
Prof. Raj Kishore Sharma	Physical	Energy storage and conversion devices (Fuel Cells , Photovoltaic cells and Super-Capacitors),Characterization of nano-structure materials and thin-films .
Prof. Rakesh Kumar	Organic	Design and synthesis of biologically active 1,4-Dihydro -pyridines Azasugars, Alkaloids etc. and their applications as metal sensors and Bio-imaging.
Prof. Rakesh Kumar Sharma	Physical	Preparation, characterizations of applications of Metals/ Ceramics / Polymeric/ Magnetic nanoparticles
Prof. Firasat Hussain	Inorganic	Crystal Engineering, Nanomolecular Structural Chemistry, Synthesis of Polyozometalates as molecular magnets, lanthanoid Chemistry, Catalysis
Dr. Dhanraj T Masram	Inorganic	Polymer Synthesis , Orgenomettalic Chemistry
Dr. Brajendra K Singh	Organic	Bio organic Chemistry , enzyme assisted reactions and microwave assisted Chemistry
Pr o f. Surendra Singh	Inorganic	Immobilization of biocatalysts and Organocatalysts , assymetric catalysis, synthesis of biologically active natural products and their analogues.
Dr. Ram Kuntal Hazra	Physical	Exploration of tunneling and co-tunneling of heavy fermions of quantum dots emerging Kondo-effect at low-temperature
Dr. Sasanka Deka	Inorganic	Nano chemistry; Novel nanomaterials for energy research & applications; Nanomaterials for catalyst; Multifunctional materials; Hybrid nanocrystals; Inorganic chemistry
Dr. Kovuru Gopalaiah	Organic	C-H Bond activation and functionalization, Design and development of novel synthetic strategies/new chemical reactivity, Metal-catalyzed Cascade/Tandem/Domino reactions, Synthesis of biologically significant heterocycles and natural products.
Dr. Sandeep Kaur	Inorganic	Catalysis, Bioinorganic and coordination chemistry
Dr. Ramendra P Singh	Organic	Metal and nonmetal catalyse synthesis of Arenes and Hetroarenes, Nucleoside Modification and Microwave assisted Synthesis
Dr. Alok Kumar Rai	Inorganic	Novel solution-based synthesis to produce nanostructured metal oxides, Energy storage nanomaterials for lithium ion and post lithium ion batteries applications, TEM studies on Li-intercalated/de-intercalated metal oxide nanomaterials, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.