Dr. Samala Rathan
Associate Professor, Faculty of Mathematics,
Department of Humanities and Sciences,
Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam
Address: Vangali Village, Sabbavaram Mandal, Anakapalli District,
Andhra Pradesh, India-531035
Email: rathans.math@iipe.ac.in; samalarathan2@gmail.com
Associate Professor, Mathematics, IIPE Visakhapatnam, India, Oct-2025 to till date
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, IIPE Visakhapatnam, India, July-2019 to Oct-2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, IIT Bombay, India, Jan-2019 to July-2019
Direct CSIR-SRF, VNIT-Nagpur, India, Mar 2018-Nov 2018
JRF, VNIT-Nagpur, India, Jan 2015-Jan 2018
Adhoc Faculty, VNIT-Nagpur, India, July 2013-Dec 2014
Postdoctoral fellow, 1st Jan-15th July, 2019, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay (Mathematics), India
Advisor: Prof. S. Baskar
Ph.D., July 2015-December 2018, Department of Mathematics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology-Nagpur, India
Thesis: High-order Shock Capturing Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Advisor: Prof. G. Naga Raju
M.Sc., 2011-2013, Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur, India
Thesis: Pulsating flow of an incompressible micropolar fluid through a porous channel-Effect of slip condition
Advisor: Prof. PVSN Murthy
B.Sc., 2008-2011, Vaagdevi Degree and P.G. College, Hanamkonda, Kakatiya University-Warangal, India
PECFAR award-2024 from IGSTC.
ANRF-ITS travel grant under young scientist scheme, 2024.
Institute Postdoctoral fellowship at Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay (2019-20).
Selected for NBHM postdoc fellowship-2018 (Not availed).
Awarded direct CSIR-SRF for 2017-2018 (One of the two selected candidates from all over India).
Received MCM (Merit-Cum-Means) Scholarship, IIT Kharagpur: 2011-2013.
Secured all India rank 144 in IIT JAM examination held in 2011.
Awarded Mandal level third-topper in S.S.C. examination.