Academic Profile

December 2023 – till date: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati.

December 2018 – December 2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati.

November 2016 – October 2018: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain (Advisor: Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzán).

April 2016 – October 2016: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Material Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

April 2014 – March 2016: JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of Material Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan (Advisor: Prof. Tsuyoshi Kawai).

August 2013 – March 2014: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of Material Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan (Advisor: Prof. Tsuyoshi Kawai).

July 2007– July 2013: Doctoral Student at Photosciences and Photonics Group, CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India. (Advisor: Prof. K. George Thomas).

May 2012 – July 2012: Exchange visit to University of Melbourne, Australia (Prof. Paul Mulvaney's laboratory at School of Chemistry & Bio21 Institute).

June 2006 – June 2007: Project Research Fellow at Photosciences and Photonics Group, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Trivandrum, India.

Honors and Awards

Editorial Advisory Board Member: Editorial Advisory Board Member in the journal ACS Applied Optical Materials

Editorial Advisory Board Member: Early Career Advisory Board Member in the journal ACS Materials Letters (Dec. 2021 - Dec. 2024)

Emerging Investigators Issue: Featured in ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. Early-Career Forum, 2024

Emerging Investigators Issue: Featured in J. Phys. Chem. C Early-Career and Emerging Researchers in Physical Chemistry Volume 2, 2023

Emerging Investigators Issue: Featured in Chem. Commun. Emerging Investigators Issue 2023

Emerging Investigators Issue: Featured in J. Mater. Chem. C Emerging Investigators Issue 2022

Emerging Investigators Issue: Featured in Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Issue 2022

Guest Associate Editor: For special issue in the journal Frontiers in Chemistry

Marie Curie Individual Fellowship: Awarded by the European Commission in January 2016 for pursuing postdoctoral research in Europe. 

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship: Awarded by Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan in April 2014 for pursuing postdoctoral research in Japan.

CSIR-SRF and  CSIR-JRF: Awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) SRF and JRF fellowships by Government of India, in July 2009 and June 2007, respectively.