Meet the Speakers
Prof. K George Thomas is a Professor and J C Bose National Fellow at the School of Chemistry of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram. His research focuses on Plasmonically-Powered Chemical Systems, Photochemistry and Photophysics of Semiconductor Quantum Dots, and Chiroptical properties of nanostructures.
Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay is a Professor in Department of Chemical Sciences at IISER Kolkata. His group works on the synthesis of molecules, studying the kinetics, photochemical, and photophysical properties of the synthesized molecules to understand their behaviour.
Prof. Santanu Bhattacharyya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Berhampur. His research mainly focuses on several light-induced processes in fluorescent nanomaterials and the optimization of environmentally sustainable nanomaterials for solar fuel generation.
Prof. Kosei Ueno is a Professor in Department of Chemistry at Hokkaido University. His research work focuses on Photophysical Electron Microscope of nanostructures, Time Resolved Spectrometry and Construction of spectroscopic analysis measurement system
Prof. Arri Priimägi is a Professor in Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Tampere University, Finland. His group conducts research at the borderline between stimuli-responsive materials and photonics.Their two focal areas include “Functional Supramolecules” and “Soft-Matter Photonics”.
Prof. Pramod Pillai is an Associate Professor at IISER Pune. His research at IISER Pune focuses on controlling the interplay of forces to improve and impart newer properties at the nanoscale that includes light harvesting, catalysis and self-assembly in hybrid nanomaterials.
Prof. Supratim Banerjee is an Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Sciences at IISER Kolkata. His research interest lies in Self-assembly, Supramolecular polymers, Luminescent Sensors and Photo responsive systems.
Prof. Anoop Thomas is an Assistant Professor in Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at IISc Bangalore. His group focuses on studying the Strong light matter interaction and Mueller Polarimetry. Prof. Anoop led the first demonstration of modified Chemical reactivity using Strong Coupling.
Prof. Rainer Herges is a Professor in Otto Diels Institute for Organic Chemistry at University of Kiel, Germany. His group is involved in diverse areas of research such as Switchable Molecular Magnets, Photopharmacology and so on.
Prof. S. Easwaramoorthi is a Principal Scientist at Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai. His research interest lies in study of Self - assembled hybrid nanostructures for photocatalysis and solar cell applications.
Prof C.M. Nagaraja is an Associate Professor at IIT Ropar. His research focuses on the development of inorganic metal oxide/sulfide based heterostructure photocatalysts for energy and environmental applications.
Prof. J Sankar is a Professor in Department of Chemistry at IISER Bhopal. His group is interested in establishing efficient routes to harvest energy from solar radiation using π-conjugated molecules as antenna complexes.
Prof. Prakash P. Neelakandan is a Scientist 'F' at INST, Mohali. His research group focuses on using synthetic organic chemistry to prepare new organic functional materials for applications in flexible electronic devices, sensors and cancer therapeutics.
Prof. Vandana Bhalla is a Professor in Department of Chemistry at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Her area of research lies in development of supramolecular assemblies which serve as nanoreactors for preparation of metal nanoparticles.
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Prof. Srimanta Pakhira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, IIT Indore. He is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who is working on Strong Correlation Effects in Electronic Materials Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites and Theory of Novel 2D Materials Alkali-ion Batteries.
Prof. Gokulnath Sabapathi is an Associate Professor at the School of Chemistry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram. His research area covers synthesis of planar p-conjugated macrocycles for near-IR applications, molecular probes for toxic elements, exploring new DSSCs and heteroditopic receptors.
Prof. Dibyajyoti Ghosh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi. His research work involves the high-level computational simulations to investigate and manipulate the energy conversion and transport processes in optoelectronic, photocatalysts, and spintronic materials.
Prof. Debdas Ray is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Shiv Nadar University. His research focuses on advanced photo functional materials, thermally activated delayed fluorescence, room-temperature phosphorescence, singlet-triplet management, organic light emitting diode, data security, sensing, and bio-imaging.
Prof. Jayeeta Bhaumik is Scientist E at DBT-CIAB, Department of Biotechnology, Mohali, Punjab. Her research work includes Valorization of agri-biomass through the formation of functional materials (nanomaterials, coatings, hydrogels, films etc) for agricultural and biomedical applications.
Prof. Apurba Koner is an Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal. His group work fluorescent nanoparticles and functionalize the surface with biomolecules (e.g. protein, DNA, drugs etc.) to decipher biological events associated with cancer, using diverse spectroscopic techniques.
Prof. Tokeer Ahmad is a Professor of Chemistry at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His research work mainly focuses on the development of advanced functional nanostructures for photo/electro-catalysis, nanocatalysis, gas sensing and energy applications.
Prof. Debashree Ghosh is a Professor at School of Chemical Sciences, IACS Kolkata. She is a Theoretical Chemist working on excited state processes in condensed phases and complex environments. They develop new electronic structure methods using machine learning and matrix product states.
Prof. Tapas Mandal is an Associate Professor at IIT Roorkee. His research work focuses upon Solid State and Materials Chemistry, Photocatalytic, energy storage, magnetic and catalytic materials; Nanomaterials; Hydrogen energy
Prof. Jatish Kumar is an Assistant Professor at IISER Tirupati. His group is involved in
design and synthesis of organic, inorganic and hybrid chiral nanomaterials for enhanced performance. The main aim is to find suitable applications in the field of optoelectronics, as security tags as well as in biodetection and therapy.