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Name	Designation		Research	URL
M. Jayakannan	Professor	Chemistry	Polymer chemistry and nano-materials	Personal Page
A. Raghuram	Professor	Mathematics	Langlands Program, Representations of p-adic and adelic groups and their associated L-functions Read more	Personal Page
A. A. Natu	Visiting Faculty	Chemistry	Organic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, biology in drug discovery	Personal Page
Alok Dave	Emeritus Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Sedimentology, Sequence and Seismic Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Hydrocarbon exploration
Aloke Das	Professor	Chemistry	Gas phase laser spectroscopy, Non-covalent interactions in biomolecules	Personal Page
Amit Hogadi	Associate Professor and Chair, Mathematics	Mathematics	Algebraic geometry	Personal Page
Amrita Hazra	Assistant Professor	Biology, Chemistry	Enzyme mechanisms, Chemical biology of microbes	Personal Page
Angshuman Nag	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Colloidal nanocrystals, Photophysics, Opto-electronics	Personal Page
Anindya Goswami	Associate Professor	Mathematics, Data Science	Stochastic Control, Mathematical Finance, Machine learning model of derivative pricing	Personal Page
Anirban Hazra	Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academics, Graduate Studies)	Chemistry	Theoretical Chemistry	Personal Page
Anisa Chorwadwala	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Shape Optimization Problems	Personal Page
Anjan Banerjee	Professor	Biology	Plant developmental biology, Micro RNA (miRNA) and gene regulation, Long distance signalling and plant-pathogen interaction Read more	Personal Page
Anup Biswas	Associate Professor and Deputy Chair, Mathematics	Mathematics	Controlled diffusion, queuing theory, large deviation theory	Personal Page
Anupam Kumar Singh	Associate Professor	Mathematics, Data Science	Linear algebraic groups, Lie algebra, central simple algebras and quadratic forms Read more	Personal Page
Aparna Deshpande	Assistant Professor	Physics	Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM), spectroscopy, and single atom and moleculemanipulation with STM Read more	Personal Page
Apratim Chatterji	Associate Professor	Physics, Data Science	Statistical physics, soft condensed matter, phase transitions, microfluidics	Personal Page
Argha Banerjee	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Himalayan glaciers	Personal Page
Arijit Bhattacharyay	Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academics, Graduate Studies)	Physics	Complex and dynamical systems, biophysics, pattern formation	Personal Page
Arnab Mukherjee	Associate Professor	Chemistry, Data Science	Theoretical and computational chemistry, biophysics	Personal Page
Arun Venkatnathan	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Molecular modelling, fuel cells and computational quantum chemistry	Personal Page
Arun M. Thalapillil	Assistant Professor	Physics, Data Science	Theoretical High Energy Physics	Personal Page
Ashna Bajpai	Associate Professor	Physics	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Nanomagnets & Spintronics, Carbon nanotubes, 2D-Material	Personal Page
Atikur Rahman	Assistant Professor	Physics	Quantum transport in nanoelectronic devices, applications of quasi-1D and 2D materials and their heterostructures for energy harvesting and sensing, self-assembly based nanopatterning, nanofabrication. Read more	Personal Page
Aurnab Ghose	Associate Professor	Biology	Neurobiology	Personal Page
Ayan Mahalanobis	Assistant Professor	Mathematics, Data Science	Public key cryptography, finite group theory	Personal Page
Baskar Balasubramanyam	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Number Theory	Personal Page
Bejoy K. Thomas	Associate Professor	Humanities and Social Sciences	Water resources (agrarian and peri-urban); Adaptation; Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 6 and 13; Multidimensional poverty Read more	Personal Page
Bhas Bapat	Professor and Dean (Academics)	Physics	Atomic collisions, molecular fragmentation, photochemistry of of heterogeneous phases, Auger electron spectroscopy. Read more	Personal Page
Bijay Kumar Agarwalla	Assistant Professor	Physics	Charge and energy transport, Fluctuation relations, Quantum thermodynamics, Engineered light-matter quantum systems, Multidimensional spectroscopy Read more	Personal Page
Boopathy Gnanaprakasam	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Natural products synthesis, Asymmetric synthesis, Homogeneous catalysis, Flow chemistry, Fluorination methods Read more	Personal Page
Chaitanya Athale	Associate Professor	Biology	Self-organization and cell morphogenesis	Personal Page
Chaitra Redkar	Associate Professor	Humanities and Social Sciences	Political Ideas in Modern India, Gandhian Studies, Gender Studies, Indian Politics Read more
Chandrasheel Bhagwat	Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academics, Doctoral Studies)	Mathematics	Representation theory, Analysis & Geometry of locally symmetric spaces, Number Theory Read more	Personal Page
Chittaranjan S. Yajnik	Diabetes Unit, K E M Hospital & Research Centre	Biology		Personal Page
Collins Assisi	Assistant Professor	Biology, Data Science	Information processing by neuronal networks	Personal Page
Debargha Banerjee	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Automorphic forms, Galois representations, Langlands program, Arithmetic geometry	Personal Page
Deepak Dhar	Emeritus Professor	Physics	Critical phenomena on fractals, branched polymers, disordered magnets, self-organized criticality, proportionate growth in biology, protein-folding, models of super-cooled liquids and glasses. Read more
Deepak Barua	Associate Professor	Biology, Data Science	Plant physiology, physiological ecology and evolutionary ecology	Personal Page
Devapriya Chattopadhyay	Associate Professor and Chair, Earth and Climate Science	Earth and Climate Science	Paleobiology	Personal Page
Diganta Borah	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Several Complex Variables	Personal Page
Diptimoy Ghosh	Assistant Professor	Physics	Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology	Personal Page
Gayathri Pananghat	Assistant Professor	Biology	Structural Biology of Cytoskeletal Systems	Personal Page
Girish Deshpande	Visiting Faculty (Contractual)	Biology	Germ cell migration
Girish Ratnaparkhi	Associate Professor	Biology	Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic development, drosophilia	Personal Page
Gyana Ranjan Tripathy	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Weathering and Erosion; Re-Os geochronology	Personal Page
Harinath Chakrapani	Professor and Dean (International Relations and Outreach)	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Nitric Oxide Prodrugs	Personal Page
Hosahudya N. Gopi	Professor and Chair, Chemistry	Chemistry	Peptides, Peptidomimetics, Foldamers, Peptide Antibiotics and Inhibitors for Protein-Protein Interactions	Personal Page
Jayant B. Udgaonkar	Professor and Director	Biology, Chemistry	Study of protein folding, unfolding and aggregation using tools of protein engineering and physical biochemistry. Read more	Personal Page
Jeetender Chugh	Assistant Professor	Biology, Chemistry	NMR spectroscopy of biomolecules	Personal Page
John Mathew	Associate Professor	Humanities and Social Sciences	Natural History, Colonial History of Science, History of Zoology, Environmental History Read more	Personal Page
Joy Merwin Monteiro	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Geophysical Fluid dynamics, Climate Modelling, Extremes in the Climate System	Personal Page
Kaneenika Sinha	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Analytic number theory, Arithmetic of modular forms	Personal Page
Krishanpal Karmodiya	Assistant Professor	Biology	Epigenetics and Transcriptional Control in Plasmodium	Personal Page
Krishna Kaipa	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Algebraic Geometric Coding theory	Personal Page
Krishna N. Ganesh	Director, IISER Tirupati	Chemistry	Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids, peptides, lipids; drug development, DNA diagnostics and nanotechnology Read more	Personal Page
Kundan Sengupta	Associate Professor	Biology	Chromosome biology in development and disease	Personal Page
L. S. Shashidhara	Professor (currently on lien to Ashoka University)	Biology	Evolution of appendage forms, functional genomics, drug discovery	Personal Page
M. S. Madhusudhan	Associate Professor	Biology, Data Science	Bioinformatics and Structure	Personal Page
M. S. Santhanam	Professor	Physics, Data Science	Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum chaos, statistical physics, complexity	Personal Page
Mainak Poddar	Professor	Mathematics	Complex Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry	Personal Page
Manish Mishra	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Representation theory of p-adic groups, Langlands Program	Personal Page
Mayurika Lahiri	Associate Professor	Biology	DNA damage and cell cycle, 3D studies of breast cancer progression Read more	Personal Page
Meera Nanda	Visiting Faculty	Humanities and Social Sciences
Milind Watve	Professor	Biology	Microbiology, Eco-biology	Personal Page
Moumita Majumdar	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Main Group Chemistry-Catalysis and Materials Applications	Personal Page
Mousomi Bhakta	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Elliptic PDE, nonlinear analysis, variational methods	Personal Page
Mridula Nambiar	Assistant Professor	Biology	Meiotic recombination and chromosomal segregation in yeast and mammals	Personal Page
Muhammed Musthafa	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Interfacial Electrochemistry, Functionalized Surfaces,Energy Conversion and Storage Devices, Water Splitting, Sensors Read more	Personal Page
Mukul Kabir	Associate Professor	Physics, Data Science	Electronic structure theory, 2D Materials, Functional defects, Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Catalyst design Read more	Personal Page
Nagaraj Balasubramanian	Associate Professor	Biology	Cell Biology: cell adhesion, trafficking, cell migration and growth	Personal Page
Neelesh Dahanukar	Visiting Faculty	Biology	Molecular phylogeny, Phylogeography, Systematics, Molecular epidemiology of wildlife diseases, Conservation biology, Evolutionary game theory Read more	Personal Page
Neena Joseph Mani	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Climate dynamics, Tropical variability, Monsoons, numerical weather prediction, predictability.	Personal Page
Neeraja Dashaputre	Assistant Professor (Contractual)	Chemistry	Chemical Education, Pedagogy Development
Nirmalya Ballav	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Interfacial Materials Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications	Personal Page
Nixon M. Abraham	Assistant Professor	Biology	Neural circuits and behaviour; Olfaction	Personal Page
Pankaj Mandal	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Terahertz spectroscop - applications to nanoscience and biomolecule dynamics	Personal Page
Partha Hazra	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Photophysics and biophysics	Personal Page
Pavan Kumar G V	Associate Professor	Physics	Nanophotonics, Soft-matter physics and Light Scattering	Personal Page
Pinaki Talukdar	Professor and Associate Dean (Faculty)	Chemistry	Supramolecular chemistry in lipid membranes, synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry.	Personal Page
Pooja Sancheti	Assistant Professor	Humanities and Social Sciences	Postmodernist fiction, Magical Realism, Myth, English Language Teaching, Narrative Theories, Art & Aesthetics Read more
Pramod Pillai	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Functional nanomaterials: Hybrid nanostructures for self-assembly, light harvesting and bio-targeting studies. Read more	Personal Page
Pranay Goel	Associate Professor	Biology, Mathematics, Data Science	Mathematical biology: physiology and type 2 diabetes. Data science and predictive modeling for healthcare and precision (personalized) medicine Read more	Personal Page
Prasad Subramanian	Professor (Physics)	Physics	Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and black hole accretion	Personal Page
Prasenjit Ghosh	Associate Professor	Chemistry, Physics, Data Science	Atomistic modeling of Materials	Personal Page
Pushkar Sohoni	Associate Professor and Chair, Humanities & Social Sciences	Humanities and Social Sciences, Data Science	Architecture, Historic Preservation, History of Architecture and Art, Numismatics, Indo-Persian Studies, Material Culture, Medieval and Modern History, Languages and Scripts Read more	Personal Page
R. Boomi Shankar	Professor	Chemistry	Synthetic Inorganic and Materials Chemistry	Personal Page
Rabeya Basu	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Algebra	Personal Page
Raghavendra Kikkeri	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Carbohydrates, Nanoparticles, Porous Silicon, Sialic acid and Glycomics	Personal Page
Raghu Murtugudde	Professor (Visiting Faculty)	Earth and Climate Science	Earth System Modeling and Predictions, Climate Impacts, Climate Communications, Ocean's Role in Climate Variability and Change Read more	Personal Page
Rahul Dehiya	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Forward and Inverse Modelling of Geophysical data
Rajaram Nityananda	Visiting Faculty	Physics
Rajeev Bhalerao	Emeritus Professor	Physics	High-Energy Nuclear Physics, Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Quark-Gluon Plasma	Personal Page
Rama Mishra	Professor	Mathematics	Knot theory, low dimensional topology, real algebraic geometry	Personal Page
Ramakrishna G. Bhat	Professor	Chemistry	Organic Synthesis and Catalysis: Organocatalysis, Photoredox catalysis, C-H bond functionalization and Transition metal catalysis Read more	Personal Page
Ramana Athreya	Associate Professor	Biology, Physics	Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, high redshift Universe, imaging techniques; Biodiversity research & conservation Read more	Personal Page
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Metal organic frameworks for selective carbon dioxide sequestration	Personal Page
Rejish Nath	Associate Professor	Physics	Quantum Optics, Atom Optics, Condensed Matter Physics	Personal Page
Richa Rikhy	Associate Professor	Biology	Cell Biology of development and differentiation: Membrane trafficking and polarity	Personal Page
S A Katre	University of Pune	Mathematics
S Sandanaraj Britto	Assistant Professor	Biology, Chemistry	Chemical Biology/Physiology & Optical Molecular Imaging of Whole Organisms	Personal Page
S. Sivaram	INSA Senior Scientist	Chemistry	Polymer Chemistry: Synthesis and characterisation of various types of polymers	Personal Page
S. G. Srivatsan	Professor and Associate Dean (Research and Development)	Chemistry	Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry, assay development, functionalised nucleic acids	Personal Page
Sachin Jain	Assistant Professor	Physics	String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Gravity, Fluid Dynamics, Conformal Bootstarp, Gauge/Gravity Duality. Read more
Sagar Pandit	Assistant Professor	Biology	Chemical and molecular ecology of multitrophic interactions involving plant, herbivore and its natural enemies Read more	Personal Page
Saikrishnan Kayarat	Associate Professor	Biology	Structural biology	Personal Page
Sanjeev Galande	Professor and Dean (Research and Development)	Biology	Epigenetics, Chromatin biology, Regulation of gene expression, Nuclear organization and function Read more	Personal Page
Satishchandra Ogale	Emeritus Professor and Raja Ramanna Fellow	Physics	Solar Energy, Energy Storage, Graphene and Functional Carbon, Oxide Electronics and Spintronics, Pattern Formation Read more	Personal Page
Satishchandra B Ogale	NCL, Pune	Physics
Satyajit Rath	Adjunct Faculty	Biology	Immunology: generation and activation of T, B and antigen-presenting cells (APCs) of myeloid lineage Read more	Personal Page
Seema Sharma	Associate Professor	Physics, Data Science	Experimental High Energy Physics	Personal Page
Shabana Khan	Associate Professor and Deputy Chair, Chemistry	Chemistry	Inorganic Chemistry	Personal Page
Shalini Sharma	Associate Professor	Humanities and Social Sciences	Environmental justice, Political ecology, Environment and development studies, Media studies, Memory studies, Oral history, Climate justice Read more
Shivprasad Patil	Associate Professor and Dean (Student Activities)	Physics	Nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy and single molecular interactions	Personal Page
Shouvik Datta	Associate Professor	Physics	Semiconductor physics, optical spectroscopy, electronic defects, nanostuctures, optoelectronics	Personal Page
Shreyas Managave	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Stable Isotope Geology
Shyam S. Rai	Emeritus Professor	Earth and Climate Science, Data Science	Geophysical data modelling, Inverse theory & its application, Deep earth exploration & understanding the earth process Read more	Personal Page
Siddhesh S Kamat	Associate Professor	Biology, Chemistry	Chemical Biology, Metabolomics, Chemoproteomics, Lipid Metabolism, Protein Biochemistry	Personal Page
Soumen Maity	Associate Professor	Mathematics, Data Science	Combinatorics,cryptography, algorithms, statistical designs, software testing	Personal Page
Sourabh Dube	Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International Relations and Outreach)	Physics, Data Science	Experimental High Energy Physics	Personal Page
Srabanti Chaudhury	Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academics, Doctoral Studies)	Chemistry	Chemical physics, theoretical biophysics	Personal Page
Sreejith GJ	Assistant Professor	Physics, Data Science	Theoretical condensed matter physics - strongly correlated systems, quantum Hall effects, frustrated systems Read more	Personal Page
Srinivas Hotha	Professor	Chemistry	Glycochemical Biology	Personal Page
Steven Spallone	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Representation Theory	Personal Page
Sudarshan Ananth	Professor	Physics	Theoretical Particle Physics	Personal Page
Sudha Rajamani	Associate Professor and Deputy Chair, Biology	Biology, Chemistry	Origins of life	Personal Page
Sudipta Sarkar	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Earth and Climate Science
Suhas Ettammal	Assistant Professor	Earth and Climate Science	Earth Science
Suhita Nadkarni	Assistant Professor and Associate Dean (Student Activities)	Biology, Data Science	Biophysical models of synaptic plasticity in health and disease	Personal Page
Sujatha Ramadorai	TIFR, Mumbai	Mathematics		Personal Page
Sujit K. Ghosh	Professor	Chemistry	Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry.	Personal Page
Sulabha Kulkarni	Visiting Faculty	Physics	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology	Personal Page
Suneeta Vardarajan	Associate Professor	Mathematics, Physics	Gravitation, mathematical physics	Personal Page
Sunil Nair	Associate Professor	Physics	Strongly correlated electron systems	Personal Page
Sunil Mukhi	Professor and Dean (Faculty)	Physics	String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Physics	Personal Page
Sunish Kumar Radhakrishnan	Associate Professor	Biology	Cell Cycle Control and Differentiation in Bacteria, Antimicrobial Resistance
Supriya Pisolkar	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Number Theory	Personal Page
Surjeet Singh	Associate Professor	Physics	Magnetism and superconductivity, single-crystal growth	Personal Page
Sutirth Dey	Professor	Biology	Population dynamics, life-history evolution, simulations, Drosophilia melanogaster	Personal Page
T. S. Mahesh	Professor and Deputy Chair, Physics	Physics, Data Science	NMR spectroscopy, quantum information, optimal control and artificial intelligence	Personal Page
Tarun Souradeep	Professor and Chair, Physics	Physics, Data Science	Cosmology, Gravitational waves Physics and Astronomy (LIGO-India)	Personal Page
Tejas Kalelkar	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Low dimensional Topology	Personal Page
Thanu Padmanabhan	IUCAA, Pune	Physics		Personal Page
Thomas Pucadyil	Associate Professor and Chair, Biology	Biology	Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vesicular Transport	Personal Page
Umakant D. Rapol	Associate Professor	Physics	Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy,quantum optics and quantum information processing, biosensors Read more	Personal Page
Uttara Naik-Nimbalkar	Visiting Faculty	Mathematics	Statistical modeling and inference, survival analysis, reliability
V. G. Anand	Professor	Chemistry	Porphyrinoids, Molecular recognition, Luminescent materials	Personal Page
V. S. Rao	Visiting Faculty	Biology	Plant biology, plant genetics, breeding	Personal Page
Venketeswara R Pai	Assistant Professor	Humanities and Social Sciences	History and Development of Astronomy and Mathematics in India, History and Development of Vakya system of Astronomy, Kerala School of Astronomy, Manuscriptology, Scientific Literature in Sanskrit and Malayalam, Paninian Grammar Read more
Vijayakumar Chikkadi	Assistant Professor	Physics	Soft condensed matter, Glasses, Active matter, Colloids	Personal Page
Vineeta Bal	Visiting Faculty	Biology	Research focus: T cell biology	Personal Page
Vivek Mohan Mallick	Assistant Professor	Mathematics, Data Science	Algebraic Geometry	Personal Page

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