• Post-Doc (2014-2018)

Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Supervisors: Prof. Wonwoo Nam and Prof. Shunichi Fukuzumi

Area of Research: Biomimetic Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation Reactions

• PhD (2014) 

Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu 

Supervisor: Prof. M. Palaniandavar 

Area of Research: Bioinorganic Chemistry and Catalysis

• MSc (2008) 

ANJA College, Sivakasi

Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu 

• Assistant Professor (August 2018 - Present date)

Bioinspired and Biomimetic Inorganic Chemistry Lab

Department of Chemistry

National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode - 673601, Kerala, India

• Post-Doc (April 2014-July 2018)

Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Supervisors: Prof. Wonwoo Nam and Prof. Shunichi Fukuzumi

Area of Research: Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation Reactions

• 2025 - Institute Research and Development Award-Early Career from NIT Calicut 

• 2024 - Elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Chennai

• 2024 - Graeme Hanson-AsBIC Early Career Researcher Award

• 2024 - GD Naidu Award for the Young Scientist

• 2022 - Guest Researcher, University Paris City, France

• 2020 - Cash Price Award for the best paper publication from NIT Calicut 

• 2019 - Young Scientist Award in Chemistry by Venus International Research Award

• 2018- DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award in Chemical Sciences-Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

• 2014 - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

• 2011 - CSIR-Senior Research Fellow, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India

• 2010 - DST-International Travel Grant- to attend 5th AsBIC in Taiwan 

• 2010 - CSIR-International Travel Grant- to attend 5th AsBIC in Taiwan

• 2008 - DST-Junior Research Fellow-Bharathidasan University, Trichy, Tamil Nadu

Original Articles

1. D. D. Malik, W. Ryu, Y. Kim, G. Singh, J.-H. Kim, M. Sankaralingam, Y.-M. Lee, M. S. Seo, M. Sundararajan, D. Ocampo, M. Roemelt,* K. Park,* S. H. Kim,* M.-H. Baik,* J. Shearer,* K. Ray,* S. Fukuzumi,* and W. Nam*, Identification, Characterization, and Electronic Structures of Interconvertible Cobalt-Oxygen TAML Intermediates, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 13817-13835. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c14346.

2. D. G. Karmalkar, M. Sankaralingam, M. S. Seo, R. Ezhov, Y.-M. Lee, Y. N. Pushkar,* W.-S. Kim,* S. Fukuzumi,* and W. Nam,* A High-Valent Manganese(IV)-Oxo-Ce(IV) Complex and Its Enhanced Oxidizing Reactivity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2019, 52, 16124-16129. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201910032

3. M. Sankaralingam, Y.-M. Lee, Y. Pineda-Galven, D. G. Karmalkar, M. S. Seo, S. H. Jeon, Y. N. Pushkar,* S. Fukuzumi,* and W. Nam,* Redox Reactivity of a Mononuclear Manganese-Oxo Complex Binding Calcium Ion and Other Redox-Inactive Metal Ions J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 1324-1336. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b11492.

4. M. Sankaralingam, Y.-M. Lee, D. G. Karmalkar, W. Nam,* and S. Fukuzumi,* A Mn(III)-Aqua Complex as a New Active Oxidant in Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 12695-12699.https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b07772.

5. T. Devi, Y.-M. Lee, J. Jung, M. Sankaralingam, W. Nam,* and S. Fukuzumi,* A chromium(III)-superoxo complex as a three-electron oxidant with a large tunneling effect in multi-electron oxidation of NADH analogues, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.,2017, 56(13), 3510-3515. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/anie.201611709.

6. Seungwoo Hong, Yong-Min Lee, Muniyandi Sankaralingam, Anil Kumar Vardhaman, Young Jun Park, Kyung-Bin Cho, Takashi Ogura, Ritimukta Sarangi, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Wonwoo Nam, A manganese(V)-oxo complex: Synthesis by dioxygen activation and enhancement of its oxidizing power by binding scandium ion, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138(27), 8523-8532.https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b03874. 

Review Articles

7. A. Rajeev,# T. P. Mohammed,# A. George,# and M. Sankaralingam*, Direct Methane to Methanol Conversion: An Overview of Non-Syn Gas Catalytic Strategies, Chem. Rec. 2025, 25, e202400186. (# equally contributed) https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202400186.

8. A. Das, T. P. Mohammed, and M. Sankaralingam*, Biological Activity of Copper Porphyrins, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2024, 506, 215661 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2024.215661.

9. A. Rajeev, M. Balamurugan, and M. Sankaralingam*, Rational Design of First-Row Transition Metal Complexes for the Oxidation of Arenes: A Homogenous Approach, ACS Catal., 2022, 12(16), 9953–9982. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c01928

10. M. Sankaralingam, M. Balamurugan, and M. Palaniandavar,* Alkane and alkene oxidation reactions catalyzed by nickel(II) complexes: Effect of ligand factors, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2020, 403, 213085. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010854519303327

11. M. Sankaralingam, Y.-M. Lee,* W. Nam,* and S. Fukuzumi,* Amphoteric reactivity of metal-oxygen complexes in oxidation reactions, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2018, 365, 41-59. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010854517307361.

• ISRO-RESPOND, Government of India (ISRO/RES/3/1055/24-25)- Rs.23,01,400/- (Co-PI); Prof. G. Unnikrishnan (PI) (2025-2027)

• ANRF (Erstwhile SERB)-CRG (CRG/2023/002850), Government of India- Rs. 47,13,196/- (2024-2027)

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award (IFA17-CH286), Government of India - Rs. 35,00,000 (2018-2023) 

• Faculty Research Seed Grant-National Institute of Technology Calicut - Rs. 5,00,000 (2019-2021)

• Student Innovative Project Scheme for UG/PG Students 2024-2025-National Institute of Technology Calicut - Rs. 75,000 (2024-2025)

• Student Innovative Project Scheme for UG/PG Students 2023-2024-National Institute of Technology Calicut - Rs. 85,000 (2023-2024)

• Student Innovative Project Scheme for UG/PG Students 2022-2023-National Institute of Technology Calicut - Rs. 90,000 (2022-2023)

1. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Copper Complexes as Biomimetic Models for Oxidase Enzyme’ at the international conference on “Emerging Frontiers in Chemical Sciences-2025” organized by the Department of Chemistry at Farook College, September 26-27, 2025. 

2. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Selective Oxygenation of Unactivated C-H Bonds Using Nickel(II) Complexes’ at the international conference on “Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Environment, and Health” at VIT-Vellore, September 17-19, 2025.

3. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Copper Complexes as Biomimetic Models for Oxidase Enzyme’ at a two-day national seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Chemical Science’ organized by the Department of Chemistry, Loyola College, Chennai, August 19-21, 2025.

4. Delivered an invited lecture on, ‘Living with Oxygen’ at NIT Calicut, organized by the Department of Chemistry on National Chemistry Day, August 02, 2025.

5. Delivered an invited lecture on, ‘How does oxygen change to water in our body’ at NIT Calicut, organized by the Indian Society for Technical Education, March 23, 2025.

6. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Direct Aromatic Hydroxylations Catalysed by Nickel(II) Complexes’ ASCENT 2025 organized by the National Institute of Technology Warangal from March 20-22, 2025.

7. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Biomimetic Inorganic Chemistry’ at the Two-days National Level Workshop Transition-2025’ organized by the Department of Chemistry, Central University of Tamilnadu, during March 13-14, 2025.

8. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Hydrogen production by nickel complexes-An inspiration from natural enzymes’ at ANRF-sponsored ‘International Conference on Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment Sustainability’ organized by the Karpagam Academy of Higher Educations, Coimbatore, during March 06-07, 2025.

9. Delivered Professor PP Krishnan Endowment lecture on, ‘How does oxygen change to water in our body’ at Malabar Christian College Kozhikode, February 21, 2025.

10. Delivered a Graeme Hanson AsBIC Early Career Researcher Award lecture on, ‘My Journies in Bioinorganic Chemistry’ at 11th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Guangxi Normal University and the State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources of China, Guilin, China, December 01-06, 2024.

11. Delivered an invited lecture on, ‘Copper(II) Complexes as Bioinspired Models for Oxidase Enzyme’ in FDP on Advanced Materials for Energy, Environmental and Biological Applications, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tiruchirappalli Campus, November 04-09, 2024.

12. Delivered a short lecture on, 'One-Step Aromatic Hydroxylations Catalysed by Nickel(II) Complexes of Pentadentate Ligands', in 6th Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry-SABIC 2024, Kolkata, India, January 07-11, 2024.

13. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Aromatic hydroxylations by nickel(II) complexes of pentadentate ligands’ at the Indo-French Seminar on Catalysis for Sustainablity-2023 organized by the IISER Tiruvendrum, during December 10-13, 2023.

14. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Copper(II) complexes as biomimetic models for phenoxazinone synthase’ at the International Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences-2023 organized by the Department of Applied Chemistry, at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, during October 26-27, 2023.

15. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Hydrogen production by nickel complexes-An inspiration from natural enzymes’ at ICSSR-sponsored Two-Day National level seminar on ‘Revealing Next-Generation Materials to Empower Green Hydrogen for Energy and Environmental Applications: Pioneering the National Hydrogen Initiative’ organized by the Department of Physics, Sri. S. Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College, Sattur, Tamilnadu-626203, during October 12-13, 2023.

16. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Hydrogen production by nickel complexes-An inspiration from natural enzymes’ Energy Environment Summit-2023, organized by Indian Institute of Petroleum Institute Vishakapatnam, July 24-26, 2023.

17. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production-An inspiration from natural enzymes’ in the international conference on Energy conversion an storage-2023, organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore, June 21-22, 2023.

18. Delivered an invited lecture on, One-Step Aromatic Hydroxylations Catalysed by Nickel(II) Complexes of Pentadentate Ligands, in the seminar on Recent Trends in Chemical Research, organized by Farook College, Kozhikode, February 09, 2023.

19. Delivered an invited lecture on, One-Step Aromatic Hydroxylations Catalysed by Nickel(II) Complexes of Pentadentate Ligands, in an international conference on Recent Trends in Materials and Magnetism (RTMM – 22), organized by Loyola College, Chennai, December 15-16, 2022.

20. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Binding Calcium Ion with Manganese(IV)-Oxo Complex-Relevant to Photosystem II’ in UGC-HRDG Kannur University Refresher Course Winter School in Physics and Chemistry, Kannur, December 09, 2022.

21. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘One-Step Aromatic Hydroxylations Catalysed by Nickel(II) Complexes of Pentadentate Ligands with Hydrogen Peroxide as Oxidant’ in CEA-CNRS-University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France on September 16, 2022.

22. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Synthetic High-Valent Manganese-Oxygen Intermediates Involved in Photosynthesis’ in the National Conference: Emerging Trends in Chemistry (ETC) organized by the Department of Chemistry at SBK College, Aruppukottai, Tamil Nadu, April 13, 2022.

23. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Trends in the properties of transition elements’ in the faculty development program for higher secondary chemistry teachers organized by Calicut Chemistry Collective, August 13, 2021.

24. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Biomimetic Mononuclear Manganese(IV)-Oxo Complex Binding Calcium Ion and Other Redox-Inactive Metal Ions-Relevant to Photosystem II’ in the E- Lecture Workshop on Advances in Chemical Sciences, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) (Trichy-Madurai Local Chapter), and Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars' Senthikumara Nadar College, January, 29, 2021.

25. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Biomimetic Mononuclear Manganese(IV)-Oxo Complex Binding Calcium Ion and Other Redox-Inactive Metal Ions-Relevant to Photosystem II’ in the UGC-HRDC–Bharathiar University Refresher Course in Chemistry organized by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, December 12, 2020.

26. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Selective Oxygenation of Cyclohexene by Iron(V)-oxo Complex using Dioxygen’ in the UGC-HRDC–Bharathiar University Refresher Course in Chemistry organized by Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, December 12, 2020.

27. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Synthetic High-Valent Manganese-Oxygen Intermediates Involved in Photosynthesis’ in the Frontiers in Chemical Sciences conference organized by the Department of Chemistry, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, December 03, 2020.

28. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Biomimetic Manganese-Oxygen Intermediates Involved in Photosynthesis’ in the PG Chemical Society inaugural function organized by the Department of Chemistry, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Sivakasi, October 12, 2020.

29. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Selective oxygenation of cyclohexene by iron(V)-oxo complex using dioxygen’ in the faculty development program on Recent Avenues in Chemical Sciences, organized by the Department of Chemistry, Saranathan Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, June 22-28, 2020.

30. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Synthetic High-Valent Manganese- Oxygen Intermediates Involved in Photosynthesis’ in the Recent Advances in Chemical Science organized by the Department of Chemistry, Sri S. Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College, Sattur, August 26, 2019.

31. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Metal complexes in organic transformation reactions’ in the faculty development program on Novel Strategies and Applications in Organic Chemistry, organized by the Department of Chemistry, NIT Calicut, June 17-22, 2019.

32. Delivered an invited lecture on ‘Determination of One-Electron Reduction Potential for Manganese-Oxygen Intermediates’ in the faculty development program on Recent Innovations and Developments in Electrochemical and Chemical Process Optimization organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Calicut, June 17-22, 2019.

33. Delivered an invited lecture on, Redox Reactivity of a Mononuclear Manganese-Oxo Complex Binding Calcium Ion and Other Redox-Inactive Metal Ions, International Conference on Advanced Chemical and Structural Biology-ICACSB-2019, organized by PRIST University, Chennai, February 19-21, 2019.

34. Delivered an invited lecture on, An Iron(V)-Oxo Complex Synthesis by Dioxygen via an Autocatalyzed Reaction and Selective Oxygenation of Cyclohexene, in an international seminar on recent trends in bioinorganic chemistry, organized by Loyola College, Chennai, February 18, 2019.