SUPERVISORS

RESEARCH SUPERVISORS

Prof. S.K. Awasthi

Prof. S. K. Awasthi

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Peptide synthesis, PNA technology, antisense approach and combinatorial chemistry

Prof. Rajeev Gupta

Prof. Rajeev Gupta

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Bio-inorganic chemistry , bio- mimetic oxidation chemistry mediated by transition metal ions, catalysis, supermolecular and coordination chemistry.

Prof. Rama Kant

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Theoretical and Fundamental Electrochemistry of Complex Systems, Theoretical Polymer Physics

Prof. Shrikant Kukreti

Prof. Shrikant Kukreti

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Multi- stranded DNA structures, anti gene, antisense strategies, biomolecular interactions, drug DNA interactions using biophysical and biochemical methods.

Prof. Diwan S. Rawat

Prof. Diwan S. Rawat

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: 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

Prof. Sunil K Sharma

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Organic synthesis, Bio-catalysis, Chemistry of natural products, Nucleic acid chemistry, Polymer synthesis, and Nanotechnology

Prof. Natesan Thirupathi

Prof. Natesan Thirupathi

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: 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. Subho Mozumdar

Prof. Subho Mozumdar

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Bio physical chemistry of protiens and DNA, protein- DNA interactions, drug-DNA delivery.

Prof. Mahendra Nath

Prof. Mahendra Nath

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Development of novel antimalarials, antimicrobial agents and peripheral functionalization of porphyrins and biomimetic metallo-porphyrins to develop new photo-therapeutic agents for photodynamic therapy applications. 

Prof. Parbati Biswas

Prof. Parbati_Biswas

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: 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

Prof. R. Nagarajan

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Material syntheis (bulk and thin film), structural characterization and transport property measurements , structure- property relationship in solid and thin films.

Prof. S. Uma

Prof. S. Uma

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: 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

Prof. M. Thirumal

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Solid-State Chemistry

Prof. A. K. Verma

Prof. A. K. Verma

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: 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

Prof. M. D. Milton

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Synthesis and characterization of novel heterocyclic compounds and their applications as fluorescent sensors, multi-stimuli responsive materials, advanced organic materials, and medicinal applications

Prof. Rakesh Kumar

Prof. Rakesh Kumar

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Design and synthesis of biologically active 1,4-Dihydro -pyridines Azasugars, Alkaloids etc. and their applications as metal sensors and Bio-imaging.

Prof. Indajeet Roy

Prof. Indrajit Roy

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Physical Chemistry, Material Science, Nanomedicine, Biophotonics

Prof. Raj Kishor Sharma

Prof. Raj Kishore Sharma

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Energy storage and conversion devices (Fuel Cells , Photovoltaic cells and Super-Capacitors),Characterization of nano-structure materials and thin-films.

Prof. P. Venkatesu

Prof. P. Venkatesu

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Biophysical Chemistry, Polymer behaviour in coexisting liquid phases . Thermodynamic properties of non-electrolyte systems.

Prof. Rakesh Kumar Sharma

Prof. Rakesh Kumar Sharma

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Preparation, characterizations of applications of Metals/ Ceramics / Polymeric/ Magnetic nanoparticles

Prof. Firasat Hussain

Prof. Firasat Hussain

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Crystal Engineering, Nanomolecular Structural Chemistry, Synthesis of polyoxometalates as molecular magnets, lanthanoid Chemistry, Catalysis, Single molecule magnets (SMM), Electrochemistry

Prof. Surinder Singh

Prof. Surendra Singh

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Immobilization of biocatalysts and Organocatalysts , assymetric catalysis, synthesis of biologically active natural products and their analogues.

Prof. Sasanka Deka

Prof. Sasanka Deka

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Nano chemistry; Novel nanomaterials for energy research & applications; Nanomaterials for catalyst; Multifunctional materials; Hybrid nanocrystals; Inorganic chemistry

Prof. B. K. Singh

Prof. Brajendra K Singh

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Bio organic Chemistry , enzyme assisted reactions and microwave assisted Chemistry

Prof. Ramendra Pratap

Prof. Ramendra P Singh

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: Metal and nonmetal catalyse synthesis of Arenes and Hetroarenes, Nucleoside Modification and Microwave assisted Synthesis

Prof. S. Kaur

Prof. Sandeep Kaur

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Catalysis, Bioinorganic and coordination chemistry

Prof. Kovuru Gopalaiah

Prof. Kovuru Gopalaiah

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area: 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. D. T. Masram

Dr. Dhanraj T Masram

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Polymer Synthesis , Orgenomettalic Chemistry

Dr. R. K. Hazra

Dr. Ram Kuntal Hazra

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area: Exploration of tunneling and co-tunneling of heavy fermions of quantum dots emerging Kondo-effect at low-temperature

Dr. Alok Rai

Dr. Alok Kumar Rai

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area: Novel solution-based synthesis to develop new electrode materials for Lithium ion, Sodium ion and Zinc ion rechargeable batteries (Energy Storage). Studies of safety of Na-ion and Li-ion batteries. Electrochemistry. Solid State Chemistry.

Dr. MK Tiwari

Dr. Mrityunjay Kumar Tiwari

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area:  Non-covalent interactions, energy-storage materials, osmolytes’ effect on the stability and function of chemical/biological systems

Dr. Singdha Singh

Dr. Snigdha Singh

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area:  Development of novel small heterocyclic molecules as potent anticancer, antimalarial and antibacterial agents. Design and synthesis of Metallic nanoparticles for applications in organic chemistry and drug delivery in cancer cell lines. 

Dr. Sarika Singh

Dr. Sarika Singh

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area:  Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials, photocatalysis, wastewater purification, dry reforming of methane, CO2 reduction for hydrogen production, Direct conversion of methane to methanol.

Dr. Mahipal Yadav

Dr. Mahipal Yadav

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area:  Chemical biology of carbohydrate-based molecules, Development of small organic molecules as anticancer, antiviral, and antimicrobial agents, Organic Synthesis, and Prebiotic Chemistry

Dr. Sumanta Sarkar

Dr. Sumanta Sarkar

Specialisation: Inorganic

Research Area:  Materials Chemistry: synthesis and characterization of new inorganic materials for clean and sustainable energy storage and conversion

Dr. Surjit Ghosh

Dr. Surajit Ghosh

Specialisation: Physical

Research Area:  Bridging membrane biophysics and interfacial chemistry to develop bio-inspired self-assemblies on sensor interfaces for analyzing the complex molecular interactions of cellular membranes

Dr. Shiv Kumar

Dr. Shiv Kumar

Specialisation: Organic

Research Area:  Investigation and Development of Organic Semiconductors for Organic Optoelectronic Devices (e.g., OLED, OFET, OECT, OSC, sensors etc.)