School of Engineering
Raj Chhabra
Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Fluid mechanics
School of Engineering
rajendra.chhabra@snu.edu.in
Professor Raj Chhabra holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Monash University, in Australia. His research interests include non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and rheology of complex fluids.
Professor Chhabra’s current research is aimed at process intensification by manipulating microstructures and rheology of complex fluids. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa. Besides having authored seven books, he is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was a J C Bose Fellow from 2015 to 2020.
Dr. Shankar K. Ghosh holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interest include wireless communication, particularly designing new protocols and algorithms for 5G and beyond.
Dr. Ghosh’s current research focuses on handover management in 5G and beyond. His works have been published in reputed IEEE conferences and journals.
Dr. Shankar K. Ghosh
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Handover management in 5G
School of Engineering shankar.ghosh@snu.edu.in
Dr. Swaminath Bharadwaj Gourishankar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bulk and interfacial phenomena
School of Engineering
swaminath.bharadwaj@snu.edu.in
Dr. Swaminath Bharadwaj Gourishankar holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His research focuses on understanding bulk and interfacial phenomena in responsive soft matter systems using a combination of molecular simulations, free energy calculations, statistical mechanical and mean-field theoretical approaches.
Dr. Gourishankar’s current research focuses on understanding the mechanisms governing the interplay between compartmentalization and stimuli (physical and chemical)-response in membrane-less condensates using model bio-polymers.
Dr. Harpreet Singh Grewal
Department Mechanical Engineering
Surface engineering, tribology
School of Engineering
harpreet.grewal@snu.edu.in
Dr. Harpreet Singh Grewal holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in India. His research interests include surface engineering (thermal spraying, microwave processing, micro/nano-patterning), tribology (macro/micro/nano), development of selfcleaning and smart surfaces and biomimetics.
Professor Grewal’s current research focuses on developing super-slippery materials possessing multiple traits such as self-cleaning, low drag, anti-icing, and anti-fogging.
Dr. Karan Gupta
Department of Chemical Engineering
Complex fluid flows
School of Engineering karan.gupta@snu.edu.in
Dr. Karan Gupta holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research interests include complex fluid flows, hydrodynamic instabilities, multiphase flows in microfluidic channels, and membranes for gas and liquid separations. As principal investigator, Dr. Gupta has been awarded prestigious grants from the government of India and industry-sponsored projects.
Dr. Gupta’s current research focuses on hydrodynamic instabilities during rotary jet spinning. Additionally, he is also investigating the self-imbibition of polymers in microcapillaries that have applications where porous media absorbs fluids.
Dr. Gupta has published his research work in prestigious journals including the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Chemical Engineering Science, Polymer, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Journal, among others.
Dr. Priyanka Katiyar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Bio-energy production
School of Engineering
priyanka@snu.edu.in
Dr. Priyanka Katiyar holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Her research interests include bio-energy production, advanced separation processes, catalysis and reaction engineering, and industrial and municipal waste management.
Dr. Katiyar’s current research focuses on the production of biofuel through thermochemical conversion, bio-based membranes for pollutant removal, and supercritical drying of food. She has published her research work in reputed international journals of high-impact factors, including the Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, among others.
Dr. Sonia Khetarpaul holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Her work interests include data science, information retrieval, social networks, and natural language processing.
Dr. Khetarpaul’s current research focuses on evaluating and validating large language models for gender and cultural biases. She is also working on developing large language models for legal contracts.
Besides being a recipient of an IBM Ph.D. fellowship, she is a member of IEEE and ACM and a faculty mentor for ACM-Women.
Dr. Sonia Khetarpaul
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Data science, information retrieval, social networks
School of Engineering
sonia.khetrapaul@snu.edu.in
Dr. Sanjay Krishna
Department of Chemical Engineering
Polymer materials application
School of Engineering
sanjay.krishna@snu.edu.in
Dr. Sanjay Krishna holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Surat, India. His research interests include polymer materials for applications in membrane transport, coatings and thin films.
Dr. Krishna leads the Polymer Materials Research Lab where he works on polymer composites, nanomaterials and biomaterials, using molecular simulations to study gas separation and waste-water treatment.
He has published research papers in journals like Waste and Biomass Valorization, Materials Today Chemistry, Computational Materials Science, Materials Today Communications, Mechanics of Materials, and Materials Letters, among others.
Dr. Nitin Kumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pattern recognition and machine learning
School of Engineering
nitin.kumar@snu.edu.in
Dr. Nitin Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Dr Kumar's research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning, focusing on the innovative analysis and synthesis of 1-D signals and medical images through advanced machine-learning techniques.
Dr. Kumar’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades at prominent conferences, including IEEE ICIP and MICCAI. In addition to his research achievements, he plays an active role as a reviewer for leading journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Internet of Things, MICCAI, and BMVC.
Dr. Sweta Mishra holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India. Her research interest includes theory and practice of cryptography, password-based cryptosystems, biometric security, blockchain and cyber security.
Dr. Mishra’s work has been published in reputed IEEE conferences and many top journals.
Dr. Sweta Mishra
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Cryptography, blockchain, cyber security School of Engineering sweta.mishra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Himanshu Sekhar Sahu
Department of Electrical Engineering
Photovoltaic power generation, photovoltaic power system
School of Engineering
himanshu.sekhar@snu.edu.in
Dr. Himanshu Sekhar Sahu holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. His research interests include photovoltaic power generation, distributed generation and photovoltaic power system.
Dr. Sahu’s current research focuses on the integration of renewable sources with the grid and power quality.
Besides having authored 23 papers, he serves as a reviewer for leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaic and Solar Energy.
Dr. Subhendu Bikash Santra
Department of Electrical Engineering
Power electronics converter, machine drive
School of Engineering
subhendu.santra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Subhendu Bikash Santra holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His research interests include power electronics converter, machine drive, control of power converter for microgrid and electric vehicle.
Dr. Santra’s research has been published in reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Application, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, among others.
Dr. Santra is a senior member of IEEE (USA), TARE Fellow and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Power Electronics (Inderscience-Switzerland).
Dr. Debarun Sengupta
Department of Electrical Engineering
Bio-inspired wearables
School of Engineering
debarun.sengupta@snu.edu.in
Dr. Debarun Sengupta holds a Ph.D. degree in Microsystems and Flexible Electronics from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Dr. Sengupta’s research interests include establishing a research track in bioinspired wearables and organ-on-chips. His current research focuses on converging the principles of microsystem fabrication with next-generation additive manufacturing techniques to develop advanced organ-on-chips systems and wearable electronics for inexpensive and accessible healthcare.
In addition, Dr. Sengupta is jointly holding a position as a visiting research fellow with the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Professor Dolly Sharma
Professor Dolly Sharma holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research interests include algorithms, data mining, bioinformatics, and analyzing social and information networks.
Professor Sharma’s current research centers on developing efficient algorithms for anomaly detection in both static and dynamic graphs. She is also exploring the effectiveness of synthetic intelligence in the biomedical domain.
Professor Sharma has published over 45 papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings. She is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Society of India.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Algorithms, data mining, bioinformatics
School of Engineering
dolly.sharma@snu.edu.in
Professor Harpreet Singh, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Surface engineering, friction stir processing School of Engineering
harpreet.arora@snu.edu.in
Professor Harpreet Singh holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. His research interests include surface engineering, friction stir processing, electrocatalysis, green hydrogen generation, aqueous Zn-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and materials for high-temperature applications.
Professor Singh’s current research focuses on developing non-noble metalbased efficient electro-catalysts with facile synthesis, low overpotential, and high stability.
In addition, his research group is actively working towards developing energydense, robust aqueous batteries for advanced energy storage applications.
Dr. Kamal Singh,
Department of Electrical Engineering
Signal processing algorithms
School of Engineering kamal.singh@snu.edu.in
Dr. Kamal Singh holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His research interests are in the information-theoretic aspects of mobile radio frequency and terrestrial free space.
Dr. Singh’s current research focuses on efficient wireless communications at low transmit powers and signal processing algorithms for flexible radio receivers and transmitters, optical-based wireless communication systems, capacity enhancement and beamforming aspects in millimetre wave communication systems.
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Soni holds a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India. His research interests include nonlinear control systems, control system applications in EVs and renewable energy systems.
Dr. Soni’s current research is on nonlinear control systems, multiagent systems, and applications in robotics and power electronics
Besides being recognized with several prestigious awards, he serves as a reviewer for leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, and Automatica.
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Soni
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
nonlinear control systems, renewable energy systems
School of Engineering
sandeep.soni@snu.edu.in
Dr. Gopal Das Singhal
Department of Civil Engineering
Water resources engineering
School of Engineering
gopal.singhal@snu.edu.in
Dr. Gopal Das Singhal holds a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. His research interests include water resources engineering and agricultural water management.
Dr. Singhal’s current research focuses on river hydraulics, inland navigation, instream storage and design of hydraulic structures. His research on agricultural water management focuses on providing solutions for food and water security and increasing water use efficiency using emerging technologies of AI and remote sensing.
Professor Sonal Singhal
Department Electrical Engineering
Ageing-aware chip design
School of Engineering
sonal.singhal@snu.edu.in
Professor Sonal Singhal holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Her research interests include developing an ageing-aware design of novel short for complementary metaloxide-semiconductor computing architectures at advanced technology nodes.
Professor Singhal's current research focuses on the creation of aging-aware inmemory computing (IMC) architecture.
The research has led to publications in reputed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Circuits And Systems—I: Regular Papers, Integration The VLSI, and other top-tier journals and conferences.
Dr. Arpit Kumar Srivastava
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Soft elastomeric devices, energy harvesters
School of Engineering
arpit.srivastava@snu.edu.in
Dr. Arpit Kumar Srivastava holds a Ph.D. degree in solid mechanics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. His research interests include soft elastomeric devices, specifically energy harvesters and actuators.
Dr. Srivastava’s current research focuses on the mechanics of soft material, multi-physics analysis, computational mechanics, non-linear elasticity, composite structures and superconductors.
Besides having expertise in constitutive modelling, combined with experimental mechanics, his work has been published in high-impact journals and has been presented at several international conferences.
Dr. Sumit Tiwari
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Solar thermal technologies
School of Engineering
sumit.tiwari@snu.edu.in
Dr. Sumit Tiwari holds a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests include thermal technologies, including drying systems, solar stills, passive building cooling, and solar adsorption cooling.
For three consecutive years, Dr. Tiwari has been recognized among the Top 2% of scientists by Elsevier and Stanford. Currently, he is engaged in projects with funding exceeding INR 40 lakh from the Government of India.
In 2018-19, he was awarded the Shrimati Vijay-Usha Sodha Research Award by IIT Delhi's Center for Energy Studies.
School of Social Sciences & Humanities
Professor Atul Bhalla
Department of Art Media and Performance
Water and the urban environment
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
atul.bhalla@snu.edu.in
Professor Atul Bhalla holds an MFA degree in Painting from Northern Illinois University, USA. His work explores the physical, historical, and political significance of water in the urban environment through artworks that incorporate photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance.
Besides being awarded the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency in 2025, he was the Mellon Artistic Research Africa fellow at WITS University 2018, Johannesburg.
Professor Bhalla traversed the 28North parallel latitude as part of his expeditionary residency foregrounding climate change from the Thar desert to the foothills of the Himalayas, resulting in a show titled, False Clouds and Real Deluges. He is currently working on his book on the journey.
Dr. Vasundhara Bhojvaid
Department of Sociology
Human/non-human relations
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
vasundhara.bhojvaid@snu.edu.in
Dr. Vasundhara Bhojvaid holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics in India. Her research interests encompass ecology and science, human/non-human relations, atmospheres, and climate change, with a particular emphasis on India.
Currently, Dr. Bhojvaid's research examines how air pollution impacts and is influenced by policies, transforming life in urban spaces and its effects on the human body. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Material Culture and Cultural Anthropology.
Professor Tulika Chandra
Department of English
Translating folktales, cultural heritage of local communities, translation studies
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
tulika.chandra@snu.edu.in
Professor Tulika Chandra holds a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her research interests include the documentation and preservation of folk narratives and songs, specifically from the Braj region and rural communities in Uttar Pradesh.
Professor Chandra’s current research includes translating folktales and archiving songs that embody the cultural heritage of local communities, translation studies, folk literature, narrative structures, storytelling as pedagogy, the translation process, folkloristics, English language teaching, digitization and preservation of folklore, English language teaching, phonetics and language acquisition.
Dr. Bhargabi Das
Department of Rural Management State, nationalism, bureaucracy
School of Humanities and Social Sciences bhargabi.das@snu.edu.in
Dr. Bhargabi Das holds a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her research interests include nationalism, bureaucracy, citizenship, political ecology, affect and North-east India.
Dr. Das’ current research focuses on state-society relations in riverine ecologies of North-east India and was funded by the Irish Research Council. She was also awarded with the Hume Doctoral Award and the Emerging Scholar Award. Her works have been published in journals such as Social Anthropology, Irish Journal of Sociology, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. She has recently co-edited a special issue on Decolonising Academia published at the Irish Journal of Sociology.
Dr. Tuhina Ganguly
Department of Sociology
Anthropology of mental health and medicine
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
tuhina.ganguly@snu.edu.in
Dr. Tuhina Ganguly holds a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research interests include thinking anthropologically about mental health and medicine, especially psychiatry.
Dr. Ganguly’s current research explores psychiatric and therapeutic approaches to rehabilitation for people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. Based on her ongoing collaboration with psychiatrist colleagues, she works on interdisciplinary dialogues between anthropologists and mental health professionals in furthering a contextually grounded understanding of some of the most distressing mental illnesses today.
In addition to mental health, Dr. Ganguly has also worked on anthropological approaches to the body, and spirituality. Her articles have been published in Medicine Anthropology Theory, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, among others.
Dr. Subhashim Goswami
Department of Sociology
Social anthropology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
subhashim.goswami@snu.edu.in
Dr. Subhashim Goswami holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics in India. His research interests include addressing questions of method in the social sciences, in particular the making of ethnographic objects.
Dr. Goswami’s current research interest looks at artistic work ethnographically to think through methodological questions in the field of sociology, social anthropology and is also conducting artistic workshops in academic spaces. His publications have been in the field of anthropological methods, teaching pedagogy, masculinity and on practices that lie at the interstices of research and art.
Besides being a sociologist Dr. Goswami is also a practicing theatre artist and works on creating plays for toddlers.
Dr. Jabin Thomas Jacob
Department of International Relations and Governance Studies
China’s domestic and foreign affairs
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
jabin.jacob@snu.edu.in
Dr Jabin Thomas Jacob holds a Ph.D. degree in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research interests include the relationship between China’s domestic politics and its external policies focusing particularly on Chinese worldviews and India-China relations.
Dr Jacob’s recent publications include two co-edited special issues for the China Report on the Communist Party of China’s 100th anniversary (February and August 2022) as well as a co-edited volume titled, How China Engages South Asia: Themes, Partners and Tools (2023). He is currently involved in a book on China’s global initiatives in the wake of Covid-19.
Dr. Anand Krishnan
Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies
Labour and supply chains in Global South School of Humanities and Social Sciences
anand.krishnan@snu.edu.in
Dr. Anand Krishnan holds a Ph.D. degree in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research interests include labour and supply chains in the global south, the electronics industry, and the political economy of China and India.
Dr. Krishnan’s current research focuses on East Asian investments in India’s electronics industry, and state-capital-labour interface in China’s Xinjiang region. He is the assistant editor of the quarterly journal China Report (published by Sage) and an Adjunct Fellow, at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi.
Dr. Devendra Kumar
Center of Excellence for Himalayan Studies
China and the international order
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
devendra.kumar@snu.edu.in
Dr. Devendra Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests include China and the international order, party ideology and political legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, territorial sovereignty questions in China’s peripheries, and political economy with a particular focus on western regions of China and intellectuals.
Dr. Kumar’s current research focuses on cadre management in ethnic regions of China, urbanization in China’s Southwest borderlands, the Tibet-aid program, socio-economic in border regions, and domestic-foreign policy linkages.
Dr. Atul Mishra
Department of International Relations and Governance Studies
Indian foreign policy, geopolitics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
atul.mishra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Atul Mishra holds a Ph.D. degree in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. His areas of research are contemporary Indian foreign policy, contemporary international affairs with a focus on order transition, geopolitics and democratization, and modern Indian international thought.
Dr. Mishra’s work has been published in International Affairs, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, India Review, Economic and Political Weekly and Studies in Indian Politics. He is the author of The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Dr. Iman Kumar Mitra
Department of History
History of economic thought
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
iman.mitra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Iman Kumar Mitra holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Jadavpur University in India. His research interests include the history of economic thought, economic history, urban studies, migration and political philosophy.
Dr. Mitra’s current research focuses on the global trends of digital transactions and the interfaces of financial capitalism and infrastructure development. He is currently finishing his monograph on the evolution of the genre of economic history in colonial and postcolonial India.
Dr. Sruthi Muraleedharan holds a Ph.D. degree in Politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom. Her research interests range from political theory, politics of intersectional identities (gender, caste, and race), postcolonial thought and critical race theory, performativity and symbolism, space and city, politics of South Asia, Gender Studies and interdisciplinary research methods such as visual ethnography.
Dr. Muraleedharan’s current research explores gendered diplomacy and Indian foreign policy; diplomatic gifting practices, politics of statues and their transnational relatedness (ruptures and continuities) through symbolism.
Dr. Sruthi Muraleedharan
Department of International Relations and Governance Studies
Gendered diplomacy and Indian foreign policy
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
sruthi.muraleedharan@snu.edu.in
Dr. Priyanka Pandit holds a Ph.D. degree in International Political Economy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her research interests are in the areas of international and comparative political economy, economic history, and international economic institutions.
Dr. Pandit’s current research focuses on the political economy of China’s state-owned enterprises and the history of India-China engagement at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. She is also presently working on a book project, China and the WTO: Anomalies, Anxieties & Ambitions funded by the Indian Council of Affairs, New Delhi.
Dr. Priyanka Pandit
Department of International Relations and Governance Studies
Political economy of China’s state-owned enterprises
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
priyanka.pandit@snu.edu.in
Dr. Kapil Patil holds a Ph.D. degree in Science Policy Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research sits at the intersection of Science, Technology, and International Relations.
Dr Patil’s current research focuses on the politics of radiation protection and the emergence of global nuclear safety regimes.
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the European Research Council (ERC) project “Living with Radiation” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Dr. Kapil Patil
Department of International Relations and Governance Studies
Emergence of global nuclear safety regimes
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
kapil.patil@snu.edu.in
Dr. Sreejata Paul Department of English
Islam in South Asia
School of Humanities and Social Sciences sreejata.paul@snu.edu.in
Dr. Sreejata Paul holds a dual-badged Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and Monash University, Melbourne. Her research interests include Islam in South Asia, women’s intellectual networks, science and utopian fiction, and environmental and plant humanities.
Dr. Paul’s work has been published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Women: A Cultural Review, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and several edited volumes.
Besides translating literary and critical pieces from Bangla to English, Dr. Paul’s translated volume of Ramchandra Pramanik’s poetry is forthcoming from The Antonym Collections.
Dr. Teja Varma Pusapati
Department of English
Victorian literature
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
teja.pusapati@snu.edu.in
Dr. Teja Varma Pusapati holds a Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, with a particular focus on the developments in professional authorship, women’s writing, journalism and the periodical press, feminist writing, and imperial print networks.
Besides being awarded a Curran Fellowship by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, she has more recently, served on their board of directors.
Dr. Pusapati has contributed book chapters to Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain 1830s-1900 and the Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism. Her first monograph, Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850-1880, on pioneering female professional journalists in nineteenth-century England, was recently published by Routledge, New York.
Professor Ram Ranjan
Department of Economics
Climate finance mechanisms
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
ram.ranjan@snu.edu.in
Professor Ram Ranjan holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include managing water scarcity, conserving biodiversity, and addressing climate change through adaptation and mitigation strategies. A core theme of Dr. Ranjan’s work is risk management within interconnected human, ecological, and economic systems.
Currently, Professor Ranjan is exploring climate finance mechanisms, such as green bonds and payments for ecosystem services, to advance sustainable environmental practices.
Professor Ranjan has previously held roles at the United States Department of Agriculture’s economic research service, the University of Florida, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Macquarie University.
Darryl Reed, Distinguished Professor
Department of Economics
Professor Darryl Reed holds two Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, one in political economy and public policy (1995) and the other in social ethics (1997). His research interests include business ethics, public policy, development, fair trade and co-operatives.
Currently, Professor Reed's research centers on fair trade and regional economic development.
Professor Reed has sat on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Ethics and the UK Journal of Co-operative Studies. He has also served as the President of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC), 2010-2015.
Fair trade and regional economic development
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
darryl.reed@snu.edu.in
Mr. Anupam Roy,
Department of Art, Media and Performance
Visual artist
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
anupam.roy@snu.edu.in
Anupam Roy holds master’s degrees from Ambedkar University, Delhi, India and De Montfort University, UK.
Rooted in India’s hinterlands Mr. Roy’s practice as a visual artist addresses ecological destruction, labour rights, and dystopian regimes. His work has been showcased in major exhibitions, including the 2024 Colomboscope Festival, the 2018 New Museum Triennial, and Frieze Art Fair.
Mr. Roy’s solo exhibitions include shows at Project 88, Mumbai, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi, and most recently, with Prameya Art Foundation at Asia Now, Paris.
Dr. Punarjit Roychowdhury
Department of Economics
Development economics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
punarjit.r@snu.edu.in
Dr. Punarjit Roychowdhury holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Southern Methodist University in USA. His research interests include development economics, gender economics, and economic demography.
Dr. Roychowdhury's research has been published in several top international economic journals including World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, World Development among other.
Besides being a fellow at the Global Labor Organization and a non-resident fellow at the CDES, Monash University, Dr. Roychowdhury has been invited to join the UNU-WIDER visiting scholars programme in the summer of 2025.
Dr. P.C. Saidalavi
Department of Sociology
Social hierarchy, labour, caste and religion
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
saidalavi.pc@snu.edu.in
Dr. P.C. Saidalavi holds a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the Australian National University in Canberra. His research interests include social hierarchy, labour, caste, religion, mysticism, and modernity.
Currently, he is working on two projects: one on sectarianism among Muslims in Kerala, and another on fishing technologies along the Malabar coast and Muslim communities' engagement with them.
Dr. Saidalavi’s research has been featured in respected journals such as American Anthropologist, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and South Asia Research. His upcoming book, Politics of Hierarchy: Caste, Labour, and Islam in India (UPenn), examines the dynamics of social hierarchy among Muslims in India, with a specific emphasis on the barber community in Kerala.
Professor Gitanjali Sen
Department of Economics
Applied microeconomics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
gitanjali.sen@snu.edu.in
Professor Gitanjali Sen holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She is a development economist working in applied microeconomics areas, particularly in education, health, and gender.
Some of her current works include the intersection of language and education, the impacts of conditional and unconditional cash transfers, higher education policies, the study of early life health and its connection to later life outcomes, women empowerment, and labour market outcomes.
Professor Sen has published in internationally acclaimed journals like the Journal of Population Economics, World Development, The Journal of Development Studies, Plos One, Population Research and Policy Review.
Professor Sambudha Sen Department of English
19th century novel in England School of Humanities and Social Sciences sambudha.sen@snu.edu.in
Professor Sambudha Sen holds a Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Delhi, India. His research focuses predominantly on the nineteenth-century novel in England and its relation to print culture. His essays on these topics have appeared in journals like Representations and Victorian Studies.
Professor Sen’s 2012 book London, Radical Culture and the Making of the Dickensian Novel was nominated for the North American Victorian Studies Association prize. Sen has also written on the 1861 Bengali text Hootum Pyanchar Naksha before coediting Novel Formations a volume on the early Indian novel published by Permanent Black.
Besides being a recipient of several prestigious international fellowships, including the Leverhulme Fellowship, the Mellon Fellowship and the Rockefeller Residency at Bellagio, he serves as a member of the advisory board of Victorian Studies.
Mihir Shah
Distinguished Professor
Department of Rural Management
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
mihir.shah@snu.edu.in
Professor Mihir Shah is a prominent scholar, practitioner, and policy-maker in water management and rural livelihoods in India. He has pioneered a groundbreaking Master’s program in Rural Management, tailored for students from the most disadvantaged regions and communities.
From 2009 to 2014, Professor Shah served as a Member of the Planning Commission, focusing on water resources and rural development. Notably, from 2019 to 2021, he chaired the committee established to draft India’s new national water policy, becoming the first individual outside the government to hold this position.
Dr. Chinmay Sharma
Department of English
Print, performance, visual cultures
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
chinmay.sharma@snu.edu.in
Dr. Chinmay Sharma holds a Ph.D. degree in Languages and Cultures of South Asia from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. His research interests include print, performance and visual cultures in Hindi and English in post-independence India with expertise in cultural studies, postcolonial theories and literature, comparative literature and world literature.
Dr. Sharma’s essays on mythological retellings have appeared in Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories. His short story Hostile Environment was published in Wasafiri 111 from London in 2022.
Dr. Ravi Nandan Singh
Department of Sociology
Sociology of dead and death
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
ravi.singh@snu.edu.in
Dr. Ravi Nandan Singh holds a Ph.D. degree in Sociology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in India. His research is on the sociology of the dead and death. His broader research interests include medical sociology, theology, forms of religious and spiritual lives, morbid humour, literary sociology, proper names, and kinship.
Dr. Singh’s ethnographic work is on crematoria in Banaras and Denmark. His book Dead in Banaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling has been recently published by the Oxford University Press.
Currently. He is working on cremation and remaking of catholic theology based on his research work in Italy and Vatican.
Dr. Chinmaya Lal Thakur
Department of English
Postcolonial studies
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
chinmaya.thakur@snu.edu.in
Dr. Chinmaya Lal Thakur holds a Ph.D. degree in English from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include postcolonial studies, modernist literature, the contemporary novel, and continental philosophy.
Dr. Thakur is currently developing his Ph.D. thesis on David Malouf’s novels into a monograph. He is simultaneously working on a book project which seeks to study post-secularism as articulated in the contemporary anglophone novel.
Dr. Meera Visvanathan
Department of History and Archaeology
Ancient and early medieval India
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
meera.visvanathan@snu.edu.in
Dr. Meera Visvanathan holds a Ph.D. degree in Ancient History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her areas of research and writing focus on the history of ancient and early medieval India. Her published articles focus on the inscriptions of early historic India, examining issues of written culture, the interplay of languages and ethnic groups, and the contexts of communication involved in these early records.
Besides having co-edited a volume The Social Worlds of Premodern Transactions: Perspectives from Indian Epigraphy and History in 2021, Dr. Visvanathan is interested in the social history of ancient India, with a focus on themes of caste and gender and is working on a translation and historical study of the Vajrasuchi, an ancient Buddhist text which critiques caste.
School of Management & Entrepreneurship
Professor Paromita Goswami
Consumption, sustainable entrepreneurship
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
paromita.goswami@snu.edu.in
Professor Paromita Goswami holds a Ph.D. degree in Consumer Behavior from BITS Pilani, India. Her research interests include sexual violence and consumption, sustainable menstruation and social entrepreneurship, clinical depression from a critical marketing perspective, religious violence and social marketing of peace, psychographics and youth consumption.
Professor Goswami has published in areas like social entrepreneurship, menopause and intimate violence, sustainable menstruation, sustainable development goals and marketing, poetry in consumer behavior, sexual harassment in the workplace and public policy, mental health and marketization, addressing stigma in help-seeking for mental health.
Dr. Shalu Kalra
Stock market liquidity, capital markets
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
shalu.kalra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Shalu Kalra holds a Ph.D. degree in Finance, Accounting and Control from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. Her research interests include stock market liquidity, capital markets, corporate social responsibility, IPOs and capital allocation.
Dr. Kalra’s current research focuses on the impact of environmental strategies pursued by firms on their financial performance. Her work has been published in journals like Vikalka and peer-reviewed conferences like Strategic Management Society’s Annual Colloquium.
Dr. Vivek Khanna holds a Ph.D. degree in Organizational Behavior from the Indian Institute of Management Indore in India. His research interests include critical management studies.
Currently, his research focus is on investigating the behavioural impact of contemporary political science on society.
Dr. Khanna’s research has been published in the journal Acta Psychologica and as book chapters in edited books. He has presented his work at various international conferences.
Dr. Vivek Khanna
Organizational behavior and human resource management
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
vivek.khanna@snu.edu.in
Professor Vinita Krishna
Intellectual property
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
vinita.krishna@snu.edu.in
Professor Vinita Krishna holds a Ph.D. in Management of Intellectual Property from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Her current research focuses is integrating intellectual property into management teaching and research in the areas of intellectual property strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability.
Professor Krishna is on the editorial board of some of the emerald journals and has published research papers and case studies in Springer, Elsevier, and Emerald, among others. Besides regularly conducting faculty development programs and workshops on intellectual property and innovation, Professor Krishna has also been a mentor for start-ups.
Dr. Ankur Mehra
FinTech and venture capital firms
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
ankur.mehra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Ankur Mehra holds a Ph.D. degree in Finance, Accounting and Control from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in India. His research interests include FinTech, and venture capital firms.
Dr. Mehra current research focuses on digital public infrastructure and its impact on FinTech ecosystem.
Professor Pradeep Mehra
Negotiation, management accounting
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
pradeep.mehra@snu.edu.in
Professor Pradeep Mehra holds a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is also a qualified cost accountant.
In his teaching, Professor Mehra focuses on negotiations, entrepreneurship, strategy, and management accounting.
With significant experience in the corporate sector, Professor Mehra has held senior roles such as chief financial officer and chief executive officer, as well as serving on various boards.
Dr. Satyam Mukherjee
Network science, data analytics
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
satyam.mukherjee@snu.edu.in
Dr. Satyam Mukherjee holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His research interests include network science, data analytics, open digital innovation, and sports analytics.
Dr. Mukherjee’s works have been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IISE Transactions, Nature Human Behavior, Nature Scientific Reports, Interface, and Journal of Computational Social Science, and have been featured in The Economist, Times of India, and the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Farhan Mustafa
Ethical marketing, Islamic banking
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
farhan.mustafa@snu.edu.in
Dr. Farhan Mustafa holds a Ph.D. degree in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. His research interests include ethical consumption, ethical marketing, environmental, social, and governance and Islamic marketing.
Dr. Mustafa’s Ph.D. thesis conceptualized and structurally expressed the market pervasiveness of belief and ethics-based organizations and their business practices. He is also well-versed in Harvard Business School’s case study methodology and its teaching.
Dr. N.T. Sudarshan Naidu
Buyer-seller relationship
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
sudarshan.naidu@snu.edu.in
Dr. N.T. Sudarshan Naidu holds a Ph.D. degree in Rural Management specializing in Marketing and Agribusiness from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand in India. Dr. Naidu’s research interests include buyerseller relationships, bottom-of-the-pyramid marketing, non-profit marketing, sustainability, agribusiness, corporate social responsibility, and managing cooperatives.
Dr. Naidu serves as a regional managing editor of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. He has published in journals like Production Planning and Control and in Ivey Case Publications and presented papers at many international conferences.
Professor Bikramjit Rishi
Market orientation, consumer behavior
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
bikramjit.rishi@snu.edu.in
Professor Bikramjit Rishi holds a Ph.D. degree in Strategic Information Systems from Punjabi University, Patiala, India. His research interests include market orientation, consumer behavior, digital marketing and higher education marketing.
Professor Rishi’s current research focuses on marketing, organizational behaviour and human resource management, consumer behaviour, digital marketing and marketing communications.
Several of his research papers have been published in A and B league journals, including the Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Logistics, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Global Information Management, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Journal of Brand Management, Australasian Marketing Journal, Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Journal of Marketing Communications, Social Responsibility Journal, Journal of Promotion Management, and Journal of Systems and Information Technology among others.
Dr. Partha Sarathi Roy holds a Ph.D. degree in Strategy from the Institute of Rural Management Anand, India. His research interests lie in the intersecting domains of innovation, strategy and social impact.
Dr. Roy’s current research focuses on understanding the effect of proactive environment strategies adopted by pioneering Indian firms on financial performance.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding problems of everyday life, his research has been published in peer-reviewed journals like the Journal of Social Marketing and the Australasian Journal of Information Systems, among others.
Dr. Partha Sarathi Roy
Strategy, entrepreneurship and international business
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
pr545@snu.edu.in
Dr. Arvind Shatdal holds a Ph.D. degree in Organizational Behavior from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in India. His research interests include group information sharing, group, and organizational learning, and organizational innovation and design thinking.
Dr. Satdal’s research has been published in management journals like Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers and Indore Management Journal.
Dr. Arvind Shatdal
Buyer-seller relationship
Organizational behavior, human resource management
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
as786@snu.edu.in
Professor Shailendra Singh holds a Ph.D. degree in Organizational Behaviour from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research focuses on improving and enhancing the effectiveness of individual and organizational systems.
Besides having published six books and over 80 research papers in various peer-reviewed national and international journals, he has served as a Guest Editor of Personnel Review and Editor-in-Chief of Metamorphosis and International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope.
Professor Shailendra Singh
Enhancing effectiveness of organizational systems
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
shailendra.singh@snu.edu.in
School of Natural Sciences
Dr. Binson Babu
Department of Physics
Novel nanomaterials, advanced electrolytes
School of Natural Sciences
binson.babu@snu.edu.in
Dr. Binson Babu holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, India. Dr. Babu’s research interests include developing novel electrode and electrolyte materials for rechargeable batteries, supercapacitors, and hybrid-ion capacitors. He has received the HORIZON-MSCA-PF fellowship and an SRG from ANRF (SERB), India.
Currently heading the Nanoscience and Energy Research lab (NERL), his group is involved in the research of designing novel nanomaterials and advanced electrolytes for the application of sustainable energy storage and energy conversion.
Dr. Geetanjali Chawla
Department of Life Sciences
Noncoding RNA biology of ageing
School of Natural Sciences
geetanjali.chawla@snu.edu.in
Dr. Geetanjali Chawla holds a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in India. Her research interests include noncoding RNA biology of ageing, model organism genetics, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Dr. Chawla’s current research focuses on mechanisms and dietary interventions in ageing and age-related diseases and mechanisms underlying depression-like behaviour in drosophila melanogaster.
Besides being a recipient of the DBT-Wellcome India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship (2018-2023) and SERB-CRG (2024) grant, her research profile was highlighted in the coffee table book 75 Under 50 Scientists Shaping Today’s India, released by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2022.
Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar
Department of Life Sciences
Molecular ecology, evolutionary biology
School of Natural Sciences
neelesh.dahanukar@snu.edu.in
Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar holds a Ph.D. degree in Scientific Computing from the University of Pune, India. His research interests include molecular ecology and evolutionary biology with an emphasis on mathematical and statistical modelling and analysis.
Dr. Dahanukar’s research focuses on understanding the evolutionary biogeography of the Indian subcontinent employing multigene phylogenies and molecular clock analysis.
Besides studying the genomic basis of evolutionary adaptations in subterranean fishes, Dr Dahanukar's work on evolutionary game theory explores the evolution of selfish genetic elements under multilevel selection.
Dr. Basab Bijayi Dhar
Department of Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry, catalysis
School of Natural Sciences
basab@snu.edu.in
Dr. Basab Bijayi Dhar holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, India. His research interest includes sustainable catalyst development.
Dr. Dhar is currently working to develop new heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts for C-H and O-H activation using first-row transition metals. This will minimize the use of rare metals as catalysts in synthetic chemistry. He has published over 46 research articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Dr. Sajal Kumar Ghosh
Department of Physics
Experimental soft matter physics
School of Natural Sciences
sajal.ghosh@snu.edu.in
Dr. Sajal Kumar Ghosh holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Raman Research Institute Bengaluru in India. Dr. Ghosh’s research focuses on experimental soft matter physics, including biophysics.
Dr. Ghosh’s current research activities include the rheology of viscoelastic materials, the physics of cellular membranes, the wetting and de-wetting of nanostructured surfaces and the physics of DNA and other biopolymers.
Dr. Santanu Ghosh
Department of Chemistry
Organic synthesis
School of Natural Sciences
santanu.ghosh@snu.edu.in
Dr. Santanu Ghosh holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India. His research interests include asymmetric catalysis, bioactive natural product synthesis, and reaction engineering.
Dr. Ghosh’s current research focuses on the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive natural products such as naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids, indole and isoquinoline-based diterpenoids.
Dr. Ghosh has been recognized with several awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Department of Science & Technology’s start-up research grant, CRS Young Scientist Award, Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Thesis Award, SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Fellowship and Max Planck Fellowship.
Dr. Bappaditya Gole
Department of Chemistry
Molecular recognition, artificial photosynthesis
School of Natural Sciences bappaditya.gole@snu.edu.in
Dr. Bappaditya Gole holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research group focuses on supramolecular chemistry, creating functional organic materials with the potential to mimic biological functions.
Using a self-assembly approach, his team designs materials from small, property-encoded molecules. His current research interests include molecular recognition, artificial photosynthesis, photoredox catalysis, and molecular electronics.
Dr. Gole is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the BristolMyers Squibb Fellowship, IdEx International Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Bordeaux, and the Ramanujan Fellowship from SERB, Government of India.
Dr. Priyanka Grover
Department of Mathematics
Approximation properties in banach spaces
School of Natural Sciences
priyanka.grover@snu.edu.in
Dr. Priyanka Grover holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Her research interests include matrix and functional analysis.
Dr. Grover’s current research explores the positivity properties of specific matrices and approximation properties within Banach spaces. Dr. Grover also serves as an associate editor for the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
Dr. Grover was honored with the DST INSPIRE Faculty Award in 2015, and the SERB ECRA in 2029, and is a co-principal investigator for the SERB CRG in 2024. In 2022, she was appointed as a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Ashish Gupta
Department of Life Sciences
Epigenetic regulators
School of Natural Sciences
ashish.gupta@snu.edu.in
Dr. Ashish Gupta holds a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Parasitology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. His research interests include understanding the role of epigenetic regulators in the basic biology of cells and their deregulation in different human diseases.
Dr. Gupta's current research focuses on prostate cancer and tissue repair and regeneration biology. He uses various model organisms for his research, including cancer cells, planaria, and mice.
Besides being a recipient of the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Dr. has been awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientist and the Professor M.B. Mirza Award by the Indian Society for Parasitology.
Professor Colin Jamora
Department of Life Sciences
Genetic engineering
School of Natural Sciences
colin.jamora@snu.edu.in
Professor Colin Jamora holds a Ph.D. degree in Biology from the University of California, San Diego. His laboratory aims to understand the cellular and molecular basis of tissue regeneration and repair to control these processes for therapeutic applications.
A wide array of experimental approaches ranging from genetic engineering of mouse models to cell biology and biochemistry to quantitative biology is brought to bear in these investigations.
Though the research projects are firmly rooted in basic biology, they facilitate the development of novel therapeutics for a variety of common diseases that have provided opportunities to interface with the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Dr. Syed Mohammad Kamil
Department of Physics
Statistical physics and soft matter
School of Natural Sciences kamil.syed@snu.edu.in
Dr. Syed Mohammad Kamil holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Institute Of Mathematical Science Chennai in India. His research interests include statistical physics and soft matter.
Dr. Syed's current research focuses on the equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of the self-assemblies formed by the aqueous solution of the surfactants and ionic liquids, as well as the kinetics of the phase formation.
Professor Aloke Kanjilal
Department of Physics
Materials science
School of Natural Sciences
aloke.kanjilal@snu.edu.in
Professor Aloke Kanjilal holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research interests include developing and characterizing low-dimensional materials and thin films for optical, electronic, and magnetic applications.
Professor Kanjilal’s current research focuses on metal oxide-based memory devices and their synaptic properties. Additional projects he is involved in include novel photodetectors, radiation detectors, gas sensors, perovskite solar cells, and the beta phases of heavy metals for spintronic applications.
Besides being a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and membership in the National Academy of Sciences, India, he was honoured as a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India.
Dr. Ajoy Kapat
Department of Chemistry
Photo-induced radical polymerisation reaction
School of Natural Sciences
ajoy.kapat@snu.edu.in
Dr. Ajoy Kapat holds a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research group is currently working on photoinduced radical polymerisation (PRP) reaction.
Part of Dr. Kapat’s group is also working on the valorisation of greenhouse gas by transforming feedstock chemicals into value-added chemicals using etalloradical catalysis. In addition, the group is currently using both computational and experimental tools to design new molecules for the treatment of tuberculosis, cancer and HBV infection.
Dr. Kapat is the recipient of Swiss Excellence Fellowship, Swiss National Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Switzerland and RWTH PostDoctoral Fellowship from Germany.
Dr. Naiwrit Karmodak
Department Chemistry
Computational high-throughput screening
School of Natural Sciences
naiwrit.karmodak@snu.edu.in
Dr. Naiwrit Karmodak holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research interests include computational high-throughput screening of efficient electrocatalysts for sustainable energy generation technologies, multiscale simulation and orbital engineering methods.
Dr. Karmodak has been featured as the introducing author in Angewandte Chemie (Wiley publishing house) in 2023. He has been recognized with the Marie Curie Eurotech fellowship and the J C. Ghosh medal for best Thesis from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Professor Bimlesh Lochab
Department of Chemistry
Self-healing reusable polymers
School of Natural Sciences bimlesh.lochab@snu.edu.in
Professor Bimlesh Lochab holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, UK. Her research interest includes sustainable material chemistry (polymer and 2D materials) using bioderived and upcycling of waste material for a variety of applications, from adhesives to cathodes beyond lithium-ion batteries.
Professor Lochab's research focuses on the use of greener synthetic and processing methodologies, including self-healing reusable polymers to nanomaterials and their recovery - closing the loop.
In the year 2024, she was granted three patents and published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Macromolecules Journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Journal, among others.
Dr. Nidhi Malhotra
Department of Chemistry
Dynamics of biophysical chemistry
School of Natural Sciences
nidhi.malhotra@snu.edu.in
Dr. Nidhi Malhotra holds a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her research interests include conformational dynamics of biomolecular interactions and their links to pathological conditions, using a combination of computational and experimental approaches.
Currently, Dr. Malhotra works on the functional mechanisms of lysosomes by constructing in-silico models of realistic lysosomal machinery. Her research aims to identify specific loci crucial for lysosomal function, explore molecular signatures associated with diseases, and discover lysosomal modulators with therapeutic potential.
Dr. Malhotra has authored numerous publications in high-impact journals like Autophagy, Nature Communications, Advanced Healthcare Materials, and ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
Professor Parthapratim Munshi
Department of Chemistry
Multifunctional molecular materials
School of Natural Sciences
parthaptratim.munshi@snu.edu.in
Professor Parthapratim Munshi holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Sciences from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, India. His research interests include structure-property relationships in organic molecular materials with unique thermal, electrical, and biological properties, as well as drug design.
Currently, Professor Munshi's research focuses on multifunctional molecular materials for applications in flexible, wearable, biocompatible, and reusable devices in the health and energy sectors. He has published extensively in journals such as ChemComm, Materials Advances, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Crystal Growth & Design, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Professor Munshi is a Marie Curie Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Besides being a member of UC Berkeley's Executive Leadership Academy, the Indian Crystallographic Association, the national committee for IUCr, the advisory board of CrystEngComm, and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Structure, he also serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Applied Crystallography.
Dr. Rana Nandi
Department of Physics
Physics of neutron stars
School of Natural Sciences
rana.nandi@snu.edu.in
Dr. Rana Nandi holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata, India. His broad area of research is astrophysics, specifically the physics of neutron stars.
Dr. Nandi’s current research focuses on constraining the equation of the state of dense matter by using astrophysical observations, including gravitational waves, exploring the possibility of hadron-quark phase transition inside neutron stars, nucleosynthesis of elements heavier than iron in binary neutron star mergers.
Dr. Kenji Nishiwaki
Department of Physics
High energy physics
School of Natural Sciences
kenji.nishiwaki@snu.edu.in
Dr. Kenji Nishiwaki holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from Kobe University in Japan. His research interests include High Energy Physics and the theoretical development of new methods in precise calculations of quantum processes.
Dr. Nishiwaki’s current research focuses on, model buildings of new physics, neutrino and flavour physics, hidden light particles, physics with hidden extra special dimensions, wave-packet quantum transitions and cosmological studies in early stages of the universe.
Dr. Prem C Pandey
Environment, ecology and remote sensing
School of Natural Sciences
prem.pandey@snu.edu.in
Dr. Prem C. Pandey holds a Ph.D. degree in Environment and Remote Sensing from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research interests include environment, ecology, remote sensing and geographic information system applications.
Dr Pandey’s current research is based on Sustainable Development Goals in relevant areas like wetlands, agriculture, climate actions, life below water, and life on land.
Dr. Pandey also serves as an editorial member for reputed journals like Geocarto International (Taylor & Francis), Sustainable Development (Wiley), and Scientific Reports and is associated with Remote Sensing as a topic editor.
Dr. Kamlesh Ganesh Pawar
Department of Life Sciences
tRNA-derived non-coding RNAs
School of Natural Sciences
kamlesh.pawar@snu.edu.in
Dr. Kamlesh Ganesh Pawar holds a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences from Freie University Berlin in Germany. His research centers on uncovering the roles of unconventional non-coding RNAs in various biological processes and disease models. By employing unique sequencing techniques, such as Phosphor-RNA-seq and cP-RNA-seq, the team reveals previously undiscovered small RNA molecules. Collaborating with universities in India, the USA, Germany, and Poland, they apply these techniques to diverse model organisms, including mice, honeybees, and hydra.
Dr. Pawar's current research specifically investigates the role of tRNA-derived non-coding RNAs in lung injury caused by environmental pollutants, such as LPS or particulate matter (PM2.5). He uses both mouse models and 3D spheroid models for his investigations.
Dr. Richa Priyadarshini
Department of Life Sciences
Bacterial cell walls, antibiotic resistance
School of Natural Sciences
richa.priyadarshini@snu.edu.in
Dr. Richa Priyadarshini holds a Ph.D. degree in Microbiology from the University of North Dakota, USA. Her research interests include microbiology, microbial genetics and microbial technology.
Dr. Priyadarshini’s current research focuses on bacterial cell walls, antibiotic resistance, biofilms and environmental biotechnology. She is a recipient of research grants from the Department of Science and Technology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Biotechnology and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. She also serves as an editorial member of BMC Microbiology and ACS Infectious Disease Journal.
Dr. Tatini Rakshit
Department of Chemistry
Bioelectronics and biomaterials
School of Natural Sciences tatini.rakshit@snu.edu.in
Dr. Tatini Rakshit holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Sciences from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. Dr. Rakshit’s research interests include mechanobiology, biosensing, bioelectronics and biomaterials.
Besides having been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eLife, JACS Au, Langmuir, ACS Applied Biomaterials, Dr. Rakshit has received the Inspire faculty fellowship and grant in 2018 and Science and Engineering Research Board’s Core Research Grant in 2020 and 2023.
Professor T. S. S. R. K. Rao
Head, Department of Mathematics
Pure and applied mathematics
School of Natural Sciences
tssrk.rao@snu.edu.in
Professor T. S. S. R. K. Rao holds a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Indian Statistical Institute. His research interests encompass both pure and applied mathematics.
Currently, Professor Rao's research focuses on functional analysis, the geometry of banach spaces, and operator theory, particularly in relation to convex optimization and best approximation theory. He serves as the chief editor of the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and leads a team of researchers on an ANRF-CODE Research project.
He is a fellow of both the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as a Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Scholar.
Professor Debdas Ray
Department Chemistry
Spectroscopy materials
School of Natural Sciences
debdas.ray@snu.edu.in
Professor Debdas Ray holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India. His research interests include organic triplet energy harvesting systems using triplet up-conversion and downconversion, triplet switches, and 3D macrocycles.
Professor Ray’s research focuses on harnessing triplet energy for OLEDs, white light, sensors, solar energy storage, data security and photosensitizer.
Besides having patented organic conjugates for molecular thermometers, he has published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (four letters in two consecutive single volumes), The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, among others.
Dr. Animesh Samanta
Department of Chemistry
Chemical biology
School of Natural Sciences nimesh.samanta@snu.edu.in
Dr. Animesh Samanta holds a Ph.D degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests include chemosensors for detecting food adulterants and environmental pollutants, as well as biosensors for cellular imaging to enable early disease diagnosis and effective treatment.
Dr. Samanta’s current research focuses on cost-effective diagnostic methods for neuroinflammation, diabetes, and arthritis. Besides patenting a fluorescent probe for detecting neuroinflammation as a post-COVID effect, he has published over 60 research articles, including high-impact, peer-reviewed journals like Analytical Chemistry Journal, ACS Sensors Journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, and Chemical Science, among others.
Professor Subhabrata Sen
Department of Chemistry
Organic and medicinal chemistry
School of Natural Sciences
subhabrata.sen@snu.edu.in
Professor Subhabrata Sen holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Missouri Columbia, USA. His research interests encompass organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry.
Professor Sen's work focuses on sustainable organic synthesis using photochemical, electrochemical, photo-electrochemical, and mechanochemical methods. He also investigates small molecules as fluorophores and potential therapeutics against cancer and virulent pathogens.
Recently, Professor Sen patented novel small molecules targeting SARSCoV-2 and filed a patent for a new instrument designed for electrophotochemical organic synthesis. His publications include articles in prestigious journals like the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemical Science, among others.
Professor Sujit K Tandel
Department of Physics
Nuclear physics
School of Natural Sciences
sujit.tandel@snu.edu.in
Professor Sujit K. Tandel holds a Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Physics from the University of Mumbai, India. His research interests include the study of nuclear metastable states and the spectroscopy of superheavy elements.
Professor Tandel has held the prestigious national professorship of the University Grants Commission, India, and prior to that, a tenure-track position at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
In addition to his ongoing research programs in fundamental and applicationoriented fields, he has designed curricula for physics degree programs along with new courses, including interdisciplinary ones.
Dr. Ranjan Vyas
Department of Life Sciences
Structure-based drug design
School of Natural Sciences
ranjan.vyas@snu.edu.in
Dr. Ranjan Vyas holds a Ph.D. degree in Protein Biochemistry from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. His research interests focus on the structure and function of clinically important proteins essential for the survival of pathogens or disease progression.
Dr. Vyas’s current research focuses on structure-based drug design using protein X-ray crystallography. He is a recipient of the Ramalingaswami fellowship grant and extramural funds from the government of India’s Department of Biotechnology.