Nihar Ranjan (Principal Investigator)
Ph.D Advisor: Prof. Dev P. Arya
Native Place: Bangaon, Saharsa (Bihar)
Brief Bio: Dr. Ranjan was born and brought up in Bangaon, a village in the Mithila region of northern Bihar. He received his B.Sc. (H) and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from University of Delhi in 2002 and 2004 respectively. He then went to the United States to earn his Ph.D degree in Chemistry (2012) from Clemson University which was followed by postdoctoral training at NUBAD, LLC (Greenville, SC, United States). Upon his return to India, he initially joined TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre at Gurgaon in 2016. He then moved to NIPER Raebareli in November 2017. He has been awarded with Oustanding Graduate Researcher Award by the Chemistry Department of Clemson University in 2012 and Best Faculty Award by NIPER-Raebareli in 2019.
Current Doctoral Students
Preethi Parmeswaran
Start year: 2018
Hometown: Allapura, Kerala
Rajesh Kumar Patidar
Start Year: 2019
Hometown: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Lachhamn Singh
Start year: 2019
Hometown: Himachal Pradesh
Ratnesh Tiwari
Start Year: 2021
Hometown: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Sachin Metangle
Start Year: 2022
Hometown: Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh
Madhu Bala
Start Year: 2023
Hometown: Nangal, Punjab
Current Masters Students
(Batch 2023-25)
Deepanjali Sahoo
Hometown:Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
Mohd. Bilal
Hometown: Humnabad, Vidarbha, Karnataka
Mahak Mouriya
Hometown: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
Caroline Sara Paul
Hometown: Korba, Chhatisgarh
Soumen Maity
Hometown: Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
Prathmesh Chiplunkar
Hometown: Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
(Batch 2022-24)
Shaikh Mohd. Jibran Sajid
Batch: 2022-24
Hometown: Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Ankita Kumari
Batch: 2022-24
Hometown: Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
Harikesh Gupta
Batch: 2022-24
Hometown: Kunda, Pratapgarh,Uttar Pradesh
N Komala
Batch: 2022-24
Hometown: Anantpur, Karantaka
Vikas Dhumal
Batch: 2022-24
Hometown: Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Vishal Chaurasia
Batch: 2022-24
Hometown: Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Group Alumni
Ph.D Students
Ph.D Students (Co-Guided)
Smita Verma (NIPER-Kolkata)
Lab Stay (2018-21)
Co-Guided with Dr. V.Ravichandiran
M.S (Pharm) Students
Batch 2021-23
Affan Hameed Saudagar
Hometown: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Eden Lallawmzuali
Hometown: Aizal, Mizoram
Himanshu Mishra
Hometown: Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh
Sonali Jatav
Hometown: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Vinit Gaikwad
Hometown: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Batch 2020-22
Sachin Metangle
Hometown: Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D
Khushboo Tiwari
Hometown: Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D at CBMR Lucknow with Dr. D.K.Tiwari
Mayur Sharad Kasar
Hometown: Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Current Position: Roche
Diskha Taksande
Hometown: Vardha, Maharashtra
Current Position: APCER Lifesciences
Batch 2019-21
Jitendra Kumar
Hometown: Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh
Current Position: Assistant Professor at CSIT, Chhatisgarh
Abdul Rahman TA
Hometown: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D at NIPER Raebareli with Dr. S.Chaudhary
Prashant Mishra
Hometown: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Current Position: APCER Lifesciences
Jai Prakash Sonwani
Hometown: Mahasamand. Chhatishgrah
Current Position:
Godugu Vinay
Hometown: Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Current Position: MSN Labs
Ratnesh Tiwari
Hometown: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D
Batch 2018-20
Baby Saroja
Hometown: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D at North Dakota State Uniiversity
Jagdish Manjhi
Hometown: Bhind (Gohad), Madhya Pradesh
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D at NIPER-Ahmedabad with Dr. Dinesh Kumar
Yashaswina Arora
Hometown: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Current Position: SmartAnalyst, New Delhi
Moumita Khanra
Hometown: Kolkata, West Bengal
Current Position: Pursuing Ph.D at NIPER-Kolkata
Batch 2017-19
Vikram Sinha
Hometown: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Current Position:
Dushyant Dewangan
Hometown: Raipur, Chattishgarh
Current Position: Almelo India Pvt. Ltd.
Triloki Prasad
Hometown: Uttar Pradesh
Current Position:
Komal Karne Ankush
Hometown: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Current Position: Glenmark India Pvt. Ltd.
Trainee Students
Anshika Awasthi
Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli, 2023
Yathartha Srivastava
Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli, 2023
Jyoti Shukla
Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli, 2023