PHD SUPERVISORS

SL. No.

School of Business

SL. No.	1
Department	Commerce
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Sayantani Banerjee
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Rupee Convertibility Responsible financing Digital Currencies Public finance and taxation Financial Inclusion
PhD Scholars	2023 Ms M Abiya Emima Mr Cyril

SL. No.	2
Department	Management
Name of the Supervisor	Dr S Amudhan
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Behavioural Finance on Investment Avenues Digital Transformation and CRM on Banking Forecasting of Volatility of Bank and IT Nifty SME’s Problems and Prospectus Entrepreneurship in Digital Era Employee Training and Development on Human Resource Management General Management on Hospitality, Tourism Management Emerging Trends of E Commerce and Customer Satisfaction on Marketing Socio Economic Revolution in Modern Management FDI & FII on Indian Stock Market
PhD Scholars	2023 Ms Sarah John Fr Joy Pradeep Rodrigues

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School of Chemical Sciences

SL. No.	3
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Anchal Singhal
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Organic chemistry (organic synthesis and reaction mechanism) Heterocyclic chemistry (synthesis and biological activity evaluation of heterocyclic compounds) Bio-organic chemistry (understanding of reaction mechanism/ drug metabolism in biological system) Green chemistry (design and development of greener strategies for synthesis of compounds; applications of green catalysts; greener reaction conditions)
PhD Scholars	2023 Madhushree B N 2024 Swetha M

SL. No.	4
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Debashis Ghosh
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Electrochemical and photochemical CO2 reduction Electrochemical and photochemical functionalization of heterocycles C-H activation of various organic molecules Development of chiral organocatalysts as well as transition metal complexes. Asymmetric CO2 fixation to organic molecules
PhD Scholars	2023 Nandini M 2024 Sushma A

SL. No.	5
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Libi Thomas
Designation	Associate Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Conducting polymers Nanoparticles/nanocomposites-synthesis Applications of nanocomposites in the following fields: Energy storage, Environmental remediation, Organic synthesis
PhD Scholars	2023 Ms Hannah Harshini Joseph 2024 Nivedita Ghosh

SL. No.	6
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Melwin Colaco
Designation	Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Protein Chemistry Green synthesis of organic compounds and its applications
PhD Scholars	2023 Manoj P

SL. No.	7
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Michael Rajamathi R
Designation	Emeritus Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Solid State Chemistry Materials Chemistry Nanoscience
PhD Scholars	2024 Avinash C M 2025 Nisha M Vulapu Aravind

SL. No.	8
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Rita Pal
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Carbohydrate chemistry Asymmetric multi-step total synthesis Development of synthetic methodology Supramolecular chemistry
PhD Scholars	2023 J Saurab Jain 2025 Naga Harsha H R

SL. No.	9
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Sunita Rajamani
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Sustainable chemistry Waste management Green Chemistry Ionic liquids Biomass conversion Catalysis Electrocatalysis
PhD Scholars	2023 Geethanjali

SL. No.	10
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Ronald Mascarenhas
Designation	Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Electrochemistry Developing electrochemical sensors for biologically significant molecules such as endocrine disruptors, neurotransmitters, amino acids, flavonoids, heavy metal ions, pharmaceutically significant molecules, and environmentally hazardous molecules. Application of the developed sensors in the determination of target analyte in real samples such as blood serum, cerebral fluid, urine, milk, fruit juices…etc. Pulse techniques such as differential pulse voltammetry, anodic/cathodic differential pulse voltammetry, stripping voltammetry, hydrodynamic linear sweep voltammetry, and amperometry are used for the quantification Electropolymerization, drop-casting, bulk modification, and covalent modification using biocompatible and new-generation materials for modification of the electrodes. Developing electrocatalysts for redox reactions and studying charge transfer kinetics by electrochemical impedance study. Study of the behavior of the modified electrodes in the surfactant medium using different electrochemical techniques.
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	11
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Nalini G Sundaram
Designation	Associate Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Design of Ceramic Nanomaterials Photocatalysts for Degradation of Organic Dyes and other pollutants Investigation of photo luminescent oxide nanoparticles for Theranostic (biological) applications and solid-state lighting Design and Development of Oxide nanoparticles and Nanocomposites for Gas Sensors Design of Ferroic materials
PhD Scholars	2024 Kavitha N A 2025 Bhavani C N

SL. No.	12
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Pramod K M
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Renewable Energy Materials Solar Thermal Energy Storage Heat Transfer Fluids Nanofluids Organic Electronics Conjugated Polymers
PhD Scholars	2024 Jaseentha A

SL. No.	13
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Joyce Queeny D'souza
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Heterogeneous catalysis; Photocatalysis Acid-catalyzed organic transformations Photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants Photocatalytic synthesis of fine chemicals
PhD Scholars	2024 Nowsin Khatun Vicelia Gracinda Alphonse

SL. No.	14
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Vinutha V Salian
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Computer aided drug design Molecular docking Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry Design and synthesis of bioactive heterocyclic compounds Single crystal XRD studies Computational chemistry
PhD Scholars	2024 Tushar K P 2025 Gaurangi Prashant Brave

SL. No.	15
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Shanty Mathew
Designation	Associate Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Heterogeneous catalysis Photodegradation Nanomaterials Nanocomposites Graphene based materials
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	16
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Sreenivasulu Bandi
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Coordination Chemistry Supramolecular Chemistry Material Chemistry
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	17
Department	Chemistry
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Suhas D
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Polymeric Membranes Functional Polymers Mixed Matrix Membranes Nanocomposites Sensors Drug Delivery Systems
PhD Scholars	-

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School of Humanities & Social Sciences

SL. No.	18
Department	Economics
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Nikhil Jha
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Labor Economics Spatial Economics Urban Economics
PhD Scholars	2023 Jessy O P

SL. No.	19
Department	Economics
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Tulika Bhattacharya
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Development economics Urban economics Input-Output economics Health and gender studies Intimate partner violence and their mental health and quality of life
PhD Scholars	2024 Vanathi D

SL. No.	20
Department	International Relations, Peace and Public Policy
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Karamala Areesh Kumar
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation International Relations Geopolitics Eurasia Foreign Policy and Resource Conflicts
PhD Scholars	2023 Edberg D Cheeran Abdul Rehman

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School of Languages & Literatures

SL. No.	21
Department	English
Name of the Supervisor	Ms Amrita Banerjee
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Postcolonial studies Victorian literature Children’s Literature Film and Cultural studies
PhD Scholars	2022 Nohosanu Natalia Rhutso Pradnya Waghule 2023 Anjali Mira De Maria Mascarenhas

SL. No.	22
Department	English
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Arul Mani
Designation	Associate Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Curriculum Design Examination Reform World Literature Stylistics The Graphic Novel Long-Form Journalism Latin American Literature
PhD Scholars	2022 Aditi Ekka Calvin George Michael L Leena D Souza

SL. No.	23
Department	English
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Cheriyan Alexander
Designation	Senior Research Faculty
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation British Literature and European/Russian Literature (in English and in translation) American Literature/American Studies Literature and Religion The Bible as Literature Literature and Ecology/Ecocriticism Indian Writing in English and in Translation Cultural Studies Fiction into Film
PhD Scholars	2022 Maria Delphina P Parul Batra Ramakanth S M Vijetha Kumar

SL. No.	24
Department	English
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Etienne Rassendren
Designation	Senior Research Faculty
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation World literatures Cultural studies Critical theory South Asian studies Pluralism Other Religious Studies
PhD Scholars	2022 M Suriyaa Sreenidhi S Vimala Ct

SL. No.	25
Department	Hindi
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Pathan Hasan
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Hindi Fiction Contemporary Discourses Comparative Literature Translation Studies and Film Studies
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	26
Department	Kannada
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Eraiah
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Critisism Modern kannada literature Folklore studies Comparitive studies Dalit Literature Feminism studies Culture studies, (Adivasi,) Inscriptions studies
PhD Scholars	2023 Sumana AS Rohith K

SL. No.	27
Department	Kannada
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Hanumantharayappa SB
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Feminism Dalith Literature Folklore Modern Literature Translation Literature Study of tribes
PhD Scholars	2023 Sujatha A 2024 Kaverappa Hm

SL. No.	28
Department	Kannada
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Poornima S
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Research on women’s study Phases of literature of women in Kannada literature Comparison on women’s literature and Kannada literature Have studied all the poems and writings of the poetesses of Kannada
PhD Scholars	2023 Parvathi M Mohandas Shetty 2024 Kavitha Swamy

SL. No.	29
Department	English
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Lillykutty Abraham
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Ecocriticism Indian Literatures Folklore Ethnographic Research Women's Studies English Literature
PhD Scholars	2024 Gadha T R Neha Ann Jishnu

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School of Humanities & Social Sciences

SL. No.	30
Department	Political Science
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Neil Tannen Lincoln
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Distributive Politics Political Party & Regime Analysis Patronage Politics Electoral Politics Political Methodology Political Economy Religion & Politics Democracy Studies Policy Studies & Policy Sciences Quantitative Political Research
PhD Scholars	2024 Shah Daniya

SL. No.	31
Department	Political Science
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Paul Newman
Designation	Professor
Area of Specialisation	-
PhD Scholars	2024 Abigail Chinzah Ryan James Wilson

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School of Languages & Literatures

SL. No.	32
Department	English
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Devapriya Sanyal
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Film Studies Gender Studies Twentieth century British Literature Urban Humanities Ecological Humanities Science Fiction
PhD Scholars	-

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School of Life Sciences

SL. No.	33
Department	Botany
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Neelam Mishra
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Plant Genomics and Expression analysis Microbial Biotechnology Plant stress physiology and phytochemistry
PhD Scholars	2022 Nithya Folita Fernandes Triveni 2023 Mariam Khadeeja Ms

SL. No.	34
Department	Botany
Name of the Supervisor	Dr A Stephen
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Botany and Ecology, Palynology. Plant Systematics Palynology and Palaeobotany Ecology and Disaster Management Biodiversity and Economic Botany Seed Ecophysiology and Pharmacology Biochemistry and Histochemistry Fungal biotechnology Water Quality Analysis
PhD Scholars	2023 Sheetal Gupta Wazen Longkumer

SL. No.	35
Department	Botany
Name of the Supervisor	Dr N Praveen Kumar
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Mycology and Plant Pathology Fungal Biotechnology Morphological changes in wood decay and Wood anatomy Biochemical studies of lignin degrading enzymes and Enzymology Delignification of Cell wall in wood and Wood Pathology Bio-control of wood rotting Pathogens and Phytopathogens Molecular diversity studies, Phylogenetics and evolution of wood decay fungi. Aeromycoflora Mycochemicals and Nutraceutical MycoNanotechnology
PhD Scholars	2022 Bharath Kumar S Tejashwini K

SL. No.	36
Department	Biotechnology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Anthony Johnson
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Stress Biotechnology, Omics approaches - Abiotic Stress Biotechnological approaches and Biotic stress biotechnological approaches. Virology - Viral diagnostics, Viral Genomics, Edible Vaccines and Multivalent vaccines, Host-Virus interactions, Multi-omics approaches for Engineering virus resistance, CRISPR technologies for virus control. Bioremediation - Host-symbiont relationships, Heavy metal remediation, PGPR microbes. Bioinformatics - Genomics, Transcriptomics, Structural Modeling, Big data in biology, pathway engineering etc., Human Disease biology-based omics approaches, pathway analysis, diagnostics etc.,
PhD Scholars	2024 Sharon Sunil Samuel

SL. No.	37
Department	Zoology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr M Jayashankar
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Ecology: Biodiversity inventories; Climate change and biodiversity, Eco-ethology Wildlife Biology: Human-Animal Interface Conservation Biology: Ethnozoology, Cultural ecology
PhD Scholars	2024 Avinash Krishnan Yashwanth Gowda N M

SL. No.	38
Department	Zoology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Santosh Jagadeeshan
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Evolutionary Biology - evolution of sex differences - from molecules to society. Molecular evolution - genetics of speciation, evolution of sex and reproduction related genes, evolution of sex biased diseases. Molecular ecology. - evolution of form and function, genetics of adaptation Evolutionary medicine - applying evolutionary theory to human health and diseases.
PhD Scholars	2024 Sruthy Jojy M Thanikodi

SL. No.	39
Department	Environmental Science
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Mohd Yousuf Rather
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Nanotechnology for Environmental Applications Remediation Soil Carbon
PhD Scholars	2024 Chitra P

SL. No.	40
Department	Microbiology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Mohanraj Gunasekaran
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Microbiology and Biotechnology:- Studies on Gut Microbiome, Bacterial Biofilms, Antimicrobial peptides, Cyanophages, Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from microbes and plants. Computational works: CADD - Computer Aided Drug Designing
PhD Scholars	2024 Chandini Sivaganga

SL. No.	41
Department	Botany
Name of the Supervisor	Dr M Raju
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Plant Tissue Culture Cell Culture Phytochemicals Characterization Bioactivity studies of Plant Secondary Metabolites Nutrition and Cancer
PhD Scholars	2025 Swapna C Suneesh V S

SL. No.	42
Department	Microbiology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Syed Wajeed
Designation	Associate Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Mutational, Biochemical and Structural Characterization of Enzymes: Cloning, Expression and Functional Analysis Ecotoxicological Effects of Xenobiotics: Environmental Impact and Bioremediation Strategies Microbial Scavenging of Environmental Pollutants: Mechanisms and Biotechnological Applications Cytotoxicity and Biocompatibility Assessment of Ionic Liquids for Therapeutic and Industrial Use Modulation of Human Gut Microbiota: Prebiotic and Probiotic Effects on Health and Disease Cloning, Expression, and Functional Characterization of Recombinant Proteins
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	43
Department	Biotechnology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Susan Mary Philip
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Antimicrobial resistance in the veterinary and plant production sectors Molecular and physiological plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	44
Department	Biotechnology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Debarati Chattopadhyay
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Anti ageing and longevity Mechanisms of anti-obesity and adipogenesis Autophagy and metabolic pathways Plant polyphenols as modulators of longevity and anti-obesity
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	45
Department	Biotechnology
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Nishanth M J
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Plant metabolism Computational functional genomics
PhD Scholars	-

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School of Physical Sciences

SL. No.	46
Department	Physics
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Arun Varma Thampan
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Astrophysics: Neutron Star Structure Astrophysics: Accreting Neutron Stars Astrophysics: Rotating Neutron Stars Astrophysics: Neutron Stars - Relativistic Effects
PhD Scholars	2024 Karan Amit Kinariwala

SL. No.	47
Department	Physics
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Mohan A
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Thin films Multiple Quantum well structures Solar cell absorber materials: CIGS and CZTS Quantum dots Organic light emitting diodes Nanomaterials Nanostructures Supercapacitors Photocatalytic
PhD Scholars	2022 Anitha Clarin Ricky Wilfred

SL. No.	48
Department	Physics
Name of the Supervisor	Dr G Vignesh
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Semiconductor Heterostructures Hybrid Nanostructures Coupled Nanostructures Impurity and Exciton States Excitons in nanostructures 2D Semiconductors and Heterostructures Excitons in 2D Materials Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis
PhD Scholars	Xavier Gama Chongdeiki M Thangeo

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School of Social Work

SL. No.	49
Department	Social Work
Name of the Supervisor	Dr S Rama Gokula Krishnan
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Community Development Mental Health Data Analysis using SPSS/PSPP Quality of Life Subjective Wellbeing
PhD Scholars	2023 Nirmal Joseph Das Alan Potter S

SL. No.	50
Department	Social Work
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Shari Tess Mathew
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Mental Health: Mental health of the vulnerable populations- Mental Illness- Psychosocial therapies- Psychiatric Rehabilitation- Community Mental Health Clinical Social Work: Psychiatric Social Work-Medical Social Work- Psychosocial problems -Psychosocial Intervention models Social Work in various settings: Child and Adolescent Mental Health- School Mental Health- Family Therapy and counselling-Geriatric Social Work-Palliative Care Life Skills Education-Substance Abuse / Addiction – Behavioural addiction- Suicide Prevention and Management
PhD Scholars	2024 Lakshmi Naveen Beulah Praisy V

SL. No.	51
Department	Social Work
Name of the Supervisor	Dr G Augustine Lourdu
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Mental Disorders and Psychotherapy Psychiatric Social Work Counselling and mental health Social work intervention Discrimination and social inclusion.
PhD Scholars	-

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School of Communication & Media Studies

SL. No.	52
Department	School of Communication & Media Studies
Name of the Supervisor	Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ
Designation	Associate Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Film Studies, Indian Cinema Social Media, Social Media Discourses Journalism and Mass Communication Broadcasting, Community Radio. Media Education
PhD Scholars	2023 Lazarus Lepcha Solomon Maria Donald 2024 Amritha Menon Godwin Emmanuel Sajan P K

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School of Information Technology

SL. No.	53
Department	Advanced Computing
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Sivakannan S
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Machine Learning Deep Learning Digital Image Processing RTL Design Artificial Intelligence Digital Signal Processing Natural Language Processing Big Data Analytics
PhD Scholars	2023 Timothy Paul L 2024 Hari Priya S

SL. No.	54
Department	Advanced Computing
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Sanjay Dutta
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Deep Uncertainty Fuzzy Stochastic Programming Multi-Choice Programming Bilevel Programming Heuristic Algorithms Machine Learning Algorithm Data Driven Optimization Packing Problem
PhD Scholars	2024 Prathiksha K J Veena Nirmala R

SL. No.	55
Department	Computer Science
Name of the Supervisor	Dr Periyasamy P
Designation	Assistant Professor
Area of Specialisation	Area of Specialisation Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) Wireless Network Security Quality of Service (QoS) Quality of Experience (QoE)
PhD Scholars	-

SL. No.	Department	Name of the Supervisor	Designation	Area of Specialisation	PhD Scholars
School of Business
1	Commerce	Dr Sayantani Banerjee	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Rupee Convertibility Responsible financing Digital Currencies Public finance and taxation Financial Inclusion	2023 Ms M Abiya Emima Mr Cyril
2	Management	Dr S Amudhan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Behavioural Finance on Investment Avenues Digital Transformation and CRM on Banking Forecasting of Volatility of Bank and IT Nifty SME’s Problems and Prospectus Entrepreneurship in Digital Era Employee Training and Development on Human Resource Management General Management on Hospitality, Tourism Management Emerging Trends of E Commerce and Customer Satisfaction on Marketing Socio Economic Revolution in Modern Management FDI & FII on Indian Stock Market	2023 Ms Sarah John Fr Joy Pradeep Rodrigues
School of Chemical Sciences
3	Chemistry	Dr Anchal Singhal	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Organic chemistry (organic synthesis and reaction mechanism) Heterocyclic chemistry (synthesis and biological activity evaluation of heterocyclic compounds) Bio-organic chemistry (understanding of reaction mechanism/ drug metabolism in biological system) Green chemistry (design and development of greener strategies for synthesis of compounds; applications of green catalysts; greener reaction conditions)	2023 Madhushree B N 2024 Swetha M
4	Chemistry	Dr Debashis Ghosh	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Electrochemical and photochemical CO2 reduction Electrochemical and photochemical functionalization of heterocycles C-H activation of various organic molecules Development of chiral organocatalysts as well as transition metal complexes. Asymmetric CO2 fixation to organic molecules	2023 Nandini M 2024 Sushma A
5	Chemistry	Dr Libi Thomas	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Conducting polymers Nanoparticles/nanocomposites-synthesis Applications of nanocomposites in the following fields: Energy storage, Environmental remediation, Organic synthesis	2023 Ms Hannah Harshini Joseph 2024 Nivedita Ghosh
6	Chemistry	Dr Melwin Colaco	Professor	Area of Specialisation Protein Chemistry Green synthesis of organic compounds and its applications	2023 Manoj P
7	Chemistry	Dr Michael Rajamathi R	Emeritus Professor	Area of Specialisation Solid State Chemistry Materials Chemistry Nanoscience	2024 Avinash C M 2025 Nisha M Vulapu Aravind
8	Chemistry	Dr Rita Pal	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Carbohydrate chemistry Asymmetric multi-step total synthesis Development of synthetic methodology Supramolecular chemistry	2023 J Saurab Jain 2025 Naga Harsha H R
9	Chemistry	Dr Sunita Rajamani	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Sustainable chemistry Waste management Green Chemistry Ionic liquids Biomass conversion Catalysis Electrocatalysis	2023 Geethanjali
10	Chemistry	Dr Ronald Mascarenhas	Professor	Area of Specialisation Electrochemistry Developing electrochemical sensors for biologically significant molecules such as endocrine disruptors, neurotransmitters, amino acids, flavonoids, heavy metal ions, pharmaceutically significant molecules, and environmentally hazardous molecules. Application of the developed sensors in the determination of target analyte in real samples such as blood serum, cerebral fluid, urine, milk, fruit juices…etc. Pulse techniques such as differential pulse voltammetry, anodic/cathodic differential pulse voltammetry, stripping voltammetry, hydrodynamic linear sweep voltammetry, and amperometry are used for the quantification Electropolymerization, drop-casting, bulk modification, and covalent modification using biocompatible and new-generation materials for modification of the electrodes. Developing electrocatalysts for redox reactions and studying charge transfer kinetics by electrochemical impedance study. Study of the behavior of the modified electrodes in the surfactant medium using different electrochemical techniques.	-
11	Chemistry	Dr Nalini G Sundaram	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Design of Ceramic Nanomaterials Photocatalysts for Degradation of Organic Dyes and other pollutants Investigation of photo luminescent oxide nanoparticles for Theranostic (biological) applications and solid-state lighting Design and Development of Oxide nanoparticles and Nanocomposites for Gas Sensors Design of Ferroic materials	2024 Kavitha N A 2025 Bhavani C N
12	Chemistry	Dr Pramod K M	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Renewable Energy Materials Solar Thermal Energy Storage Heat Transfer Fluids Nanofluids Organic Electronics Conjugated Polymers	2024 Jaseentha A
13	Chemistry	Dr Joyce Queeny D'souza	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Heterogeneous catalysis; Photocatalysis Acid-catalyzed organic transformations Photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants Photocatalytic synthesis of fine chemicals	2024 Nowsin Khatun Vicelia Gracinda Alphonse
14	Chemistry	Dr Vinutha V Salian	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Computer aided drug design Molecular docking Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry Design and synthesis of bioactive heterocyclic compounds Single crystal XRD studies Computational chemistry	2024 Tushar K P 2025 Gaurangi Prashant Brave
15	Chemistry	Dr Shanty Mathew	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Heterogeneous catalysis Photodegradation Nanomaterials Nanocomposites Graphene based materials	-
16	Chemistry	Dr Sreenivasulu Bandi	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Coordination Chemistry Supramolecular Chemistry Material Chemistry	-
17	Chemistry	Dr Suhas D	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Polymeric Membranes Functional Polymers Mixed Matrix Membranes Nanocomposites Sensors Drug Delivery Systems	-
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
18	Economics	Dr Nikhil Jha	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Labor Economics Spatial Economics Urban Economics	2023 Jessy O P
19	Economics	Dr Tulika Bhattacharya	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Development economics Urban economics Input-Output economics Health and gender studies Intimate partner violence and their mental health and quality of life	2024 Vanathi D
20	International Relations, Peace and Public Policy	Dr Karamala Areesh Kumar	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation International Relations Geopolitics Eurasia Foreign Policy and Resource Conflicts	2023 Edberg D Cheeran Abdul Rehman
School of Languages & Literatures
21	English	Ms Amrita Banerjee	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Postcolonial studies Victorian literature Children’s Literature Film and Cultural studies	2022 Nohosanu Natalia Rhutso Pradnya Waghule 2023 Anjali Mira De Maria Mascarenhas
22	English	Dr Arul Mani	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Curriculum Design Examination Reform World Literature Stylistics The Graphic Novel Long-Form Journalism Latin American Literature	2022 Aditi Ekka Calvin George Michael L Leena D Souza
23	English	Dr Cheriyan Alexander	Senior Research Faculty	Area of Specialisation British Literature and European/Russian Literature (in English and in translation) American Literature/American Studies Literature and Religion The Bible as Literature Literature and Ecology/Ecocriticism Indian Writing in English and in Translation Cultural Studies Fiction into Film	2022 Maria Delphina P Parul Batra Ramakanth S M Vijetha Kumar
24	English	Dr Etienne Rassendren	Senior Research Faculty	Area of Specialisation World literatures Cultural studies Critical theory South Asian studies Pluralism Other Religious Studies	2022 M Suriyaa Sreenidhi S Vimala Ct
25	Hindi	Dr Pathan Hasan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Hindi Fiction Contemporary Discourses Comparative Literature Translation Studies and Film Studies	-
26	Kannada	Dr Eraiah	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Critisism Modern kannada literature Folklore studies Comparitive studies Dalit Literature Feminism studies Culture studies, (Adivasi,) Inscriptions studies	2023 Sumana AS Rohith K
27	Kannada	Dr Hanumantharayappa SB	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Feminism Dalith Literature Folklore Modern Literature Translation Literature Study of tribes	2023 Sujatha A 2024 Kaverappa Hm
28	Kannada	Dr Poornima S	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Research on women’s study Phases of literature of women in Kannada literature Comparison on women’s literature and Kannada literature Have studied all the poems and writings of the poetesses of Kannada	2023 Parvathi M Mohandas Shetty 2024 Kavitha Swamy
29	English	Dr Lillykutty Abraham	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Ecocriticism Indian Literatures Folklore Ethnographic Research Women's Studies English Literature	2024 Gadha T R Neha Ann Jishnu
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
30	Political Science	Dr Neil Tannen Lincoln	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Distributive Politics Political Party & Regime Analysis Patronage Politics Electoral Politics Political Methodology Political Economy Religion & Politics Democracy Studies Policy Studies & Policy Sciences Quantitative Political Research	2024 Shah Daniya
31	Political Science	Dr Paul Newman	Professor	-	2024 Abigail Chinzah Ryan James Wilson
School of Languages & Literatures
32	English	Dr Devapriya Sanyal	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Film Studies Gender Studies Twentieth century British Literature Urban Humanities Ecological Humanities Science Fiction	-
School of Life Sciences
33	Botany	Dr Neelam Mishra	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Plant Genomics and Expression analysis Microbial Biotechnology Plant stress physiology and phytochemistry	2022 Nithya Folita Fernandes Triveni 2023 Mariam Khadeeja Ms
34	Botany	Dr A Stephen	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Botany and Ecology, Palynology. Plant Systematics Palynology and Palaeobotany Ecology and Disaster Management Biodiversity and Economic Botany Seed Ecophysiology and Pharmacology Biochemistry and Histochemistry Fungal biotechnology Water Quality Analysis	2023 Sheetal Gupta Wazen Longkumer
35	Botany	Dr N Praveen Kumar	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Mycology and Plant Pathology Fungal Biotechnology Morphological changes in wood decay and Wood anatomy Biochemical studies of lignin degrading enzymes and Enzymology Delignification of Cell wall in wood and Wood Pathology Bio-control of wood rotting Pathogens and Phytopathogens Molecular diversity studies, Phylogenetics and evolution of wood decay fungi. Aeromycoflora Mycochemicals and Nutraceutical MycoNanotechnology	2022 Bharath Kumar S Tejashwini K
36	Biotechnology	Dr Anthony Johnson	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Stress Biotechnology, Omics approaches - Abiotic Stress Biotechnological approaches and Biotic stress biotechnological approaches. Virology - Viral diagnostics, Viral Genomics, Edible Vaccines and Multivalent vaccines, Host-Virus interactions, Multi-omics approaches for Engineering virus resistance, CRISPR technologies for virus control. Bioremediation - Host-symbiont relationships, Heavy metal remediation, PGPR microbes. Bioinformatics - Genomics, Transcriptomics, Structural Modeling, Big data in biology, pathway engineering etc., Human Disease biology-based omics approaches, pathway analysis, diagnostics etc.,	2024 Sharon Sunil Samuel
37	Zoology	Dr M Jayashankar	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Ecology: Biodiversity inventories; Climate change and biodiversity, Eco-ethology Wildlife Biology: Human-Animal Interface Conservation Biology: Ethnozoology, Cultural ecology	2024 Avinash Krishnan Yashwanth Gowda N M
38	Zoology	Dr Santosh Jagadeeshan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Evolutionary Biology - evolution of sex differences - from molecules to society. Molecular evolution - genetics of speciation, evolution of sex and reproduction related genes, evolution of sex biased diseases. Molecular ecology. - evolution of form and function, genetics of adaptation Evolutionary medicine - applying evolutionary theory to human health and diseases.	2024 Sruthy Jojy M Thanikodi
39	Environmental Science	Dr Mohd Yousuf Rather	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Nanotechnology for Environmental Applications Remediation Soil Carbon	2024 Chitra P
40	Microbiology	Dr Mohanraj Gunasekaran	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Microbiology and Biotechnology:- Studies on Gut Microbiome, Bacterial Biofilms, Antimicrobial peptides, Cyanophages, Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from microbes and plants. Computational works: CADD - Computer Aided Drug Designing	2024 Chandini Sivaganga
41	Botany	Dr M Raju	Assistant Professor	Plant Tissue Culture Cell Culture Phytochemicals Characterization Bioactivity studies of Plant Secondary Metabolites Nutrition and Cancer	2025 Swapna C Suneesh V S
42	Microbiology	Dr Syed Wajeed	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Mutational, Biochemical and Structural Characterization of Enzymes: Cloning, Expression and Functional Analysis Ecotoxicological Effects of Xenobiotics: Environmental Impact and Bioremediation Strategies Microbial Scavenging of Environmental Pollutants: Mechanisms and Biotechnological Applications Cytotoxicity and Biocompatibility Assessment of Ionic Liquids for Therapeutic and Industrial Use Modulation of Human Gut Microbiota: Prebiotic and Probiotic Effects on Health and Disease Cloning, Expression, and Functional Characterization of Recombinant Proteins	-
43	Biotechnology	Dr Susan Mary Philip	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Antimicrobial resistance in the veterinary and plant production sectors Molecular and physiological plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses	-
44	Biotechnology	Dr Debarati Chattopadhyay	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Anti ageing and longevity Mechanisms of anti-obesity and adipogenesis Autophagy and metabolic pathways Plant polyphenols as modulators of longevity and anti-obesity	-
45	Biotechnology	Dr Nishanth M J	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Plant metabolism Computational functional genomics	-
School of Physical Sciences
46	Physics	Dr Arun Varma Thampan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Astrophysics: Neutron Star Structure Astrophysics: Accreting Neutron Stars Astrophysics: Rotating Neutron Stars Astrophysics: Neutron Stars - Relativistic Effects	2024 Karan Amit Kinariwala
47	Physics	Dr Mohan A	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Thin films Multiple Quantum well structures Solar cell absorber materials: CIGS and CZTS Quantum dots Organic light emitting diodes Nanomaterials Nanostructures Supercapacitors Photocatalytic	2022 Anitha Clarin Ricky Wilfred
48	Physics	Dr G Vignesh	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Semiconductor Heterostructures Hybrid Nanostructures Coupled Nanostructures Impurity and Exciton States Excitons in nanostructures 2D Semiconductors and Heterostructures Excitons in 2D Materials Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis	Xavier Gama Chongdeiki M Thangeo
School of Social Work
49	Social Work	Dr S Rama Gokula Krishnan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Community Development Mental Health Data Analysis using SPSS/PSPP Quality of Life Subjective Wellbeing	2023 Nirmal Joseph Das Alan Potter S
50	Social Work	Dr Shari Tess Mathew	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Mental Health: Mental health of the vulnerable populations- Mental Illness- Psychosocial therapies- Psychiatric Rehabilitation- Community Mental Health Clinical Social Work: Psychiatric Social Work-Medical Social Work- Psychosocial problems -Psychosocial Intervention models Social Work in various settings: Child and Adolescent Mental Health- School Mental Health- Family Therapy and counselling-Geriatric Social Work-Palliative Care Life Skills Education-Substance Abuse / Addiction – Behavioural addiction- Suicide Prevention and Management	2024 Lakshmi Naveen Beulah Praisy V
51	Social Work	Dr G Augustine Lourdu	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Mental Disorders and Psychotherapy Psychiatric Social Work Counselling and mental health Social work intervention Discrimination and social inclusion.	-
School of Communication & Media Studies
52	School of Communication & Media Studies	Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Film Studies, Indian Cinema Social Media, Social Media Discourses Journalism and Mass Communication Broadcasting, Community Radio. Media Education	2023 Lazarus Lepcha Solomon Maria Donald 2024 Amritha Menon Godwin Emmanuel Sajan P K
School of Information Technology
53	Advanced Computing	Dr Sivakannan S	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Machine Learning Deep Learning Digital Image Processing RTL Design Artificial Intelligence Digital Signal Processing Natural Language Processing Big Data Analytics	2023 Timothy Paul L 2024 Hari Priya S
54	Advanced Computing	Dr Sanjay Dutta	Assistant Professor	Deep Uncertainty Fuzzy Stochastic Programming Multi-Choice Programming Bilevel Programming Heuristic Algorithms Machine Learning Algorithm Data Driven Optimization Packing Problem	2024 Prathiksha K J Veena Nirmala R
55	Computer Science	Dr Periyasamy P	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) Wireless Network Security Quality of Service (QoS) Quality of Experience (QoE)	-

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