Profile

Feb 2025 - Present: Professor 

Nov 2021 - Jan 2025: Associate Professor (Research)

Chemistry Department, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

Areas of research: Porous Fluorinated graphene composites for self-cleaning applications, Super-wetting membranes for water harvesting applications. 

July 2016 - Oct 2021: Research Assistant Professor

Chemistry Department, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

Areas of research: Porous Fluorinated graphene composites for self-cleaning applications, Functionalized layered materials for OER applications and clean energy technologies.   

June 2015 - June 2016: Senior Researcher

Carbon Nanogroup, Regional Center of Advanced Technology and Materials, Czech Republic

Advisors: Prof. Radek Zboril and Prof. Michal Otyepka

Areas of research: Fluorographene hybrids for oil-water separation, Iron and iron oxides materials for water treatment and catalysis.

Aug 2012 - May 2015: Junior Researcher

Regional Center of Advanced Technology and Materials, Czech Republic

Advisors: Prof. Radek Zboril and Prof. Michal Otyepka

Areas of research: Graphene oxide-carbon dot hybrids for selective cell labelling, Nano zerovalent iron for advanced water treatment technologies, Carbon nanodots synthesis.

Sep 2014 - Dec 2014: Visiting Scientist at Center for Energy and Sustainability, Cornell University, United States of America

Advisor: Prof. Emmanuel P. Giannelis

Areas of research: Carbon dioxide capture by aqua sorbents, Carbon dots emitting stable green, yellow and orange light with enhanced colloidal stability.

Aug 2011 - July 2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

Advisor: Prof. Eswaramoorthy Muthusamy

Areas of research: White light-emitting soft hybrids, Amphiphilic graphene-aminoclay hybrids, Metal nanoparticles embedded MOF hybrids

Education

2007 - 2011: Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science

Dissertation: Investigations on Clay Hybrids and Carbon Based Nanostructures

Supervisor: Prof. Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India.

2008 - 2009: International Joint Graduate School Fellow

Topic: Porous carbons and carbon nitride materials for adsorption and catalysis

Supervisors: Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga and Prof. Ajayan Vinu

National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

2004 - 2007: Master of Science

Dissertation: Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoparticles Stabilized in Aminoclay, Agarose and Plant Virus Matrices

Supervisor: Dr. Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India.

2001- 2004: Bachelors of Science

M.E.S College, Bangalore, India

Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics

Project: A search for potent poison arsenic in artificial fruit ripeners