News

03/2024: Dr. Siby Thomas selected as the Outstanding Reviewer for Nanoscale recognition of an exceptionally high level of peer review competency from the Royal Society of Chemistry

09/2023: Dr. Siby Thomas received the trusted reviewer certification in recognition of an exceptionally high level of peer review competency from the Institute of Physics (IOP Publishing).  

09/2023: Dr. Siby Thomas is now serving as an Early Career Editorial board Member of Carbon Trends.

02/2023: Dr. Siby Thomas's first author paper on 'Phosgene Gas Sensing of Ti2CT2 (T= F-, O-, OH-) MXenes' published in Advanced Theory and Simulations (https://lnkd.in/ebdMPQWX) is recognized as a #TopCitedArticle (2021-2022) by Wiley.  

12/2022: Dr. Siby Thomas is now serving as a Reviewer Board Member for Sensors.

11/2021 - 08/2022: Dr. Siby Thomas served as a Guest Editor for Condensed Matter (ISSN 2410-3896) for a special issue on "Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries: Lithium-Ion and Beyond".

Invited Talks/Webinars

1. Host-Guest Chemistry for Sustainability: From Energy Innovations to Breaking Bonds, Invited Speaker, International Seminar on New Horizons in Materials Science (NHMS – 2025), Organized by Department of Physics and Chemistry, Kannur University, Kerala, India (03-04, April 2025) [via Google Meet]

2. Machine learning in Materials modelling, Invited Speaker, Faculty Development Programme on AI and ML - A Mechanical Engineering Perspective, Organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, SCMS School of Engineering & Technology, Kerala, India (17 May, 2022).

3. Role of Nanomaterials for a Sustainable Future: Insights from ComputationalChemistry Approaches, Invited Speaker, International Webinar on Advanced Functional Materials, Organized by the Department of Chemistry, St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala, India (06 April, 2022).

4. Role of Nanomaterials for a Sustainable Future: A Computational Viewpoint, Invited Speaker, Organized by the Department of Physics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur, Kerala, India (29 March, 2022).

5. From Fundamentals to the Applications of Energy Materials, Invited Speaker, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering-2021 (ICEMME-2021) as a part of the Christ Engineering Congress 2021, Organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Christ College of Engineering, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur, Kerala, India (13-15 July, 2021).

6. The Physics of Better Batteries, Invited Keynote talk during the international webinar organized by the Department of Physics, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Devagiri, Calicut, Kerala, India as a part of the International Webinar Series Energy Storage: Materials and Methods (26 August, 2020).

7. The Past, Present and Future of Clean Energy Technologies: A Computational Perspective, Invited international webinar talk organized by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jyothi Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, India (21 July, 2020). 

8. From  Atoms to  Clean Energy  Applications,  Invited  webinar talk as a part of Golden Jubilee Memorial Lecture Series organized by Department of Physics, St. Stephen’s College, Uzhavoor, Kerala, India (07 July, 2020)

9. Fundamentals   and   Applications   of   Density   Functional   Theory   for   Clean   Energy Technologies, Invited webinar talk as a part of Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (REU)/Bridge Opportunities for Transfer Student Success (BOTS) organized by Colorado School of Mines, USA (30 June, 2020) 

10. The nuts and bolts of computational materials science, Invited talk as a part of seminar on Frontiers of Research in Physics organised by Govt. College Madappally, Kerala, India (18 September, 2018)

11. Ripples in Low-dimensional materials, Invited talk as a part of the Young Scientist meet organised by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) at Nehru Arts and Science College, Kanhangad, Kerala, India (21 November, 2016)

12. The ABC of simulations, Invited talk as a part of the World Science Day Celebrations at St. Stephen’s College Uzhavoor, Kerala, India (18 November, 2014)

Journal Reviewerships 

1. ACS Applied Energy Materials (ACS Publications)

2. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (ACS Publications)

3. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C (ACS Publications)

4. Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry)

5. Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Royal Society of Chemistry)

6. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Society of Chemistry)

7. RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry)

8. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (IOP Publishing)

9. Carbon (Elsevier)

10. Applied Surface Science (Elsevier)

11. Physica E (Elsevier)

12. Journal of Molecular Liquids (Elsevier)

13. Coatings, Nanomaterials, Inorganics, Applied Sciences, Energies, Materials, Crystals (MDPI)