Group Leader

Assistant Professor @ Dept. of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science & Technology

I employ both computational chemistry techniques and advanced experimental tools to research and design of novel porous adsorbent and catalytic materials, such as Zeolitic materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs).


Specialties: - Computational Chemistry including Force-field based simulations (Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics), Density Functional Theory (DFT) and ab initio techniques


- Separation and Purification technologies

- Physical Chemistry of Materials

- Adsorption and diffusion in porous materials

- Modelling of electronic structure of catalysts

56 Publications: 50 articles, 2 proceedings, 1 Book chapters & 3 Patents

>2000 citations with 3 article cited more than 100 times


h-index = 23 & i10-index = 30


5 invited International/National Conferences

40 participation of International/National Conferences/Workshops

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Professional Experience

Work Experience

1) Jul’18 – till date, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, SRM-IST, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India

Post-Doctoral Experience (7 Years 10 Months)

4) Oct’17 – Jun’18, SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow, (DST, Govt. of India), CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

3) Nov’14 – Sept’17, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, ICGM, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France

2) Sept’11 – Oct’14, FCT Post-Doctoral Fellow, CICECO, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal

1) Sept’10 – Aug’11, Post-Doctoral Associate, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

PhD Experience (5 Years 7 Months)

2) Dec’08 – Aug’10, Senior Research Fellow (CSIR, New Delhi), Reliance Industries Ltd., Vadodara, India

1) June’05 – Dec’08, Project Assistant, Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar

Educational Qualifications

1) Ph.D in Chemistry,CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI)/Bhavnagar University, 2010

2) M.Sc (Chemistry), University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, 2005

3) B.Sc (Chemistry), University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, 2003

Other Facts

Awards & Honors:

  1. SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellowship, DST, Govt. of India,2017

  2. MOF2016- poster Award for an outstanding contribution “Negative Gas Adsorption – A new phenomenon in Metal-Organic Framework” in 5th international conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Compounds,Long Beach, California, 11-15September 2016.

  3. FOA 2016-poster Award for an outstanding contribution “A MOF for uptake and separation of wet CO2: MIL-96(Al)” in 12th international conference on Fundamental of Adsorption (IAS), Friedrichshafen, 02 June 2016.

  4. FOA 2016-poster Award for an outstanding contribution “Negative Gas Adsorption – A new phenomenon in Metal-Organic Framework” in 12th international conference on Fundamental of Adsorption (IAS), Friedrichshafen, 02 June 2016.

  5. FCT post-doctoral fellowship, Fundaçãopara a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology), Ministério da Educação e Ciência, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.

  6. FCT post-doctoral fellowship, Fundaçãopara a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology), Ministério da Educação e Ciência, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

  7. CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 2008, New Delhi, India

Professional Societies:

  1. International Zeolite Association (IZA)

  2. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT)

  3. Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Society (APCBEES)