SRIYA NAYAK
PhD Scholar (Institute Fellow, TA) 2024
M.Sc: C.V. Raman Global University Odisha
Email: s25cy09002@iitbbs.ac.in
Research Interest: Hydrogen Production, Nanocatalyst synthesis
YUKTI SETIA
PhD Scholar (Institute Fellow, TA) 2022
M.Sc: Kurukshetra University, (Organic Chemistry)
Email: yuktis22bs@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Green Hydrogen Energy, Nanocatalysis, Electrocatalysis
SHRINKHALA ANAND
PhD Scholar (Institute Fellow, TA) 2021
M.Sc: D.D.U. Gorakhpur (Inorganic Chemistry)
Email: shrinkhalaa@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Tough Hydrogel, Flexible Battery, Energy Harvesting Polymer and
Sensors
Dr. SANTOSH SEMWAL
PhD (2025)
M.Sc: H.N.B. Garhwal University (Organic Chemistry)
Email: santoshs@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Green Hydrogen Energy, Polymer Nano-catalyst, Hydrogen Storage, Electrocatalysis
Dr. CHANDAN UPADHYAY
PhD (2024)
M.Sc: Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya (Organic Chemistry)
Email: 20bs0005@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Organic synthesis, Dynamic Covalent Linkages, Polymer Processing, Polymer Reaction Kinetics
Thesis Title: Design, Synthesis and Characterisation of Dynamic Covalent Adaptable Networks based on Reversible Covalent Linkages
Dr. ARPAN TEWARY
PhD (2024)
B. Tech+ M. Tech: Central University of Jharkhand (Energy Engineering)
Email: 20bs0012@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Sea-water electrolysis, HER/OER reaction kinetics, polymer-nanocomposites and Future energy storage materials
Thesis Title: Studies on the Development of Salt Resistant Active Electrodes for Seawater Splitting
Dr. NIHARIKA PANDEY
Ph.D. (2021)
(DST-WSO-B Project Scientist) 2017
M.Sc: Kanpur University (Environmental Engineering)
Email: npandey@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Green Chemistry, Solutions for Sustainable Development, Waste Water Treatment, Nano-materials for Environmental Remediation, Bio-resources Technology
Thesis Title: Biomass Derived Renewable Nano-Structured Materials for Sustainable Environmental Remediation Applications
Dr. SUBHANKAR MANDAL
Ph.D. (2021)
(DST-SERB Sponsored Project Fellow) 2018
Currently working as Post-doctoral researcher at University of Colorado Boulder, USA (Jan 2023 onwards)
M.Sc: University of Kalyani (Organic Chemistry)
Email: smandal@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Tough hydrogels, Flexible energy storage device, Biosensors, RAFT Polymerization, Living Polymerization, Organic synthesis
Thesis Title: Design and Synthesis of Tough Ionic Hydrogels for Applications in Flexible Electronics
Dr. SUMAN DEBNATH
Ph.D. (2020)
Currently working as Post-doctoral researcher at Purdue University, USA (Nov. 2021 onwards)
DAE Sponsored Project Fellow and SRF-CSIR 2017
M.Sc: Visva-Bharati University (Organic Chemistry)
Email: sdebnath@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Covalent Adaptive Polymer Network, Dynamic polymeric linkages, 3D printing, plastisizers, polymer reaction kinetics
Thesis Title: Recyclable Thermosets Polymer Materials Based on Dynamic Covalent Linkages for Various Applications
Dr. RAMESH NARUKULLA
Ph.D. (2021)
(DST Project Fellow) 2016
(Co-PI Dr. U. Ojha)
M.Sc Chemistry
Email: ramesh@rgipt.ac.in
Research Interest: Nano-composites, emulsions, EOR
Thesis Title: Stable Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Based Nanocomposite
Dr. REWATI RAMAN UJJWAL
PhD (2018)
Currently working as Post-doctoral researcher at UMass Medical School, USA (June 2021 onwards)
SERB NPDF at NIPER, Lucknow (2019-21)
BS-MS NISER, Bhubaneswar
Research Interest: polymer nano-composite, nano medicine and drug delivery, dynamic polymeric network, computational chemistry
Thesis Title: Carbonly Hydrazide Functionality based Inorganic and Organic Nanomaterials for Biomedical, Sensing and Catalytic Applications
Dr. ANUJ KUMAR
PhD (2016)
1st PhD from this group
Research Interest: Polyacryloyl hydrazide based hydrogels, pH sensors, RAFT polymerization, polymer synthesis
Thesis Title: Functional Materials Based on Polyacryloyl Hydrazide Precursor
Covalent Adaptable Networks based on Dynamic Transesterification Linkage
Covalent Adapted Network based on Aza Michael Addition
Vignesh (B. Tech ChE)
Hydrogel simulations
Srishti (B.Tech ChE)
Tough hydrogel
Kartikeya (B.Tech ChE)
Polymeric Hydrogel
Swaraj (B.Tech ChE)
Dynamic Polymer Networks
Amrit (B.Tech ChE)
Polymeric Hydrogel
Anant (B.Tech ChE)
Hydrogel based sensors
Akshat
(B.Tech ChE)
Covalent Adaptable Polymer Network
Vikas (B.Tech ChE)
Hydrogel based sensors
Pawan
(B.Tech ChE)
Covalent Adaptable
Polymer Network
Tiwary (B.Tech ChE)
Block polymer synthesis and drug delivery
Alok Singh
B.Tech ChE
Modelling
of Gas hydrates
Nehil (B.Tech ChE)
Block polymer synthesis and drug delivery
Sumit Bera
Research Scientist
Innocules India Pvt. Ltd.
Swapanjit Sutar
Technical Assistant
DAE Project
Anand Pratap Singh
Research Assistant
Nilesh Jha
Research Assistant
Abinash Sahu (B.Tech), Harsh Gaurav Sharma (BTech), Amit Sinha (BTech), Nidhi Joshi (BTech), Rohit Abhishek (BTech), Apoorva Mittal (B. Tech.) (placed in BPCL), Archit Bansal (B. Tech.) (placed in Trident), Kshitiz Saini (B. Tech.) (placed in BPCL), Lokesh K Meena (B.Tech.)