Education

• Aug 2022- Present Ph.D. in Chemistry (ongoing, PMRF Fellow)

        Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram  (IISER TVM)

• Aug 2020- MSc in Chemistry

        Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram  (IISER TVM)

        Kerala, India (Research Supervisor: Prof. Mahesh Hariharan) 

• 2017-2020     

       B. Sc. in Chemistry

       St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Devagiri, Calicut, Kerala  (Percentage score: 92.6% with A+ grade)

• 2015-2017 

        Govt. Higher Secondary School, Thrikkavu, Malappuram, Kerala 12th Grade (Higher Secondary Education)

        Percentage score: 98%.

• 2014-2015 

       Ponnani Girls Higher High School, Ponnani, SSLC  Percentage score: 95.0% 

Fellowship and Achievements 

• Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF)

• Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE), (Granted by the Department of Science and Technology, India) 2017. 

•  Higher Education Scholarship funded by Govt. of Kerala. 2017. 

• Qualified Joint Admission Test for MSc 2020 (JAM). Rank-1019. 

• Qualified admission for Integrated Ph.D. Energy Studies at IIT Bombay 2020. 

• CSIR-Summer Research Training Program June- August 2020 (online) secured the highest ‘S’ grade 

• First prize in young innovators science fest-paper presentation titled “Polypropylene-chitosan composite films: a potential candidate for novel food packaging” at Bhautik (2019) Dept. of Physics St. Joseph’s College. 

• First prize in a paper presentation titled “Polypropylene-chitosan composite films: a potential candidate for novel food packaging” Dept. of Physics Providence College Kozhikode (2019). 

• Best poster prize FCS National Workshop on Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy at IIT Bombay 2024.

 Workshops and Conferences

1. “The 3rd International Conference on “Crystal Engineering: From Molecule to Crystal” - CEFMC 2022 Aug 31 – Sept 02, 2022 – Pahalgam, Kashmir, India. 

2. One Day International Symposium on Functional Nanoscale Materials July 28, 2022 – IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

3.  Virtual Winter School on Computation Chemistry – Introduction to Using Gaussian Workshop, Gaussian, Inc Feb 25, 2022 – Webinar. 

4. Light-matter Interactions from Scratch: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Biology, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Nov 22 – 25, 2021 

5. 12th National Workshop on Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy 29th Nov – 4th Dec 2021. 

6. Two-day online workshop on “Know your molecules: Through sophisticated instrumentation technique” St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, Under the AEGIS of RUSA, 17th and 18th Feb 2021. 

7. Foundation for Capacity Building in Science (FCBS), Workshop for College Chemistry Students and Teachers Dec 15 – 17, 2020 – Webinar. 

8. Chemdraw online workshop for skill development & career advancement Genesin of educational impressions Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India May 05, 2020. 

9. International webinar on raspd+: machine learning for fast protein-ligand binding free energy prediction and its applications to sars-cov- 2 targets 3rd Oct 2020. 

10. MATTER: CHEMISTRY!’ by Dr. Jean-Marie LEHN, 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Mar Athanasius College, Kerala 7 Sept 2020. 

11. CHEMIGNITE: Alumni Lecture series on molecular spectroscopy by Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, Dept. of Chemistry Sacred Heart Thevara. 

12. International Webinar on ‘World of 2D Materials and their applications in energy storage’ by Dr. K. Vijayamohanan Pillai, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, 19th Sept 2020. 

13. Two days’ workshop on “Transmission electron Microscopy” 11-12 April 2022 IISER TVM. 

14. Frontier Symposium in Chemistry IISER TVM 2023.

15. National workshop on Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy XIII Jan 6-11, 2023 IISER TVM. 

16. Hands-on workshop on ‘Light Sheet Microscopy’ July 2023, IISER TVM. 

17. 29th PhotoIUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, 14-19 July 2024, Valencia, Spain.

18. Frontier Symposium in Chemistry IISER TVM 2025.

Poster presentation

• Poster presentation at FCS@50 11- 14 January-2023, Agora Hall, Taj Green Cove Resort & Spa, Kovalam, Kerala. 

• Poster presentation at ULTRAFAST SCIENCES - 2023 (UFS-2023) DAE-BRNS Theme Meeting November 25-27 2023.

• Poster presentation at FCS“National Workshop on Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy” 09-15 Dec 2023 IISER TVM.

• Poster presentation at Frontier Symposium in Chemistry IISER TVM 2023.

• Poster presentation at FCS“National Workshop on Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy” IISER Mohali  9-14 December 2023 at Mohali, Punjab, India. 

• Poster presentation at 29th PhotoIUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, 14-19 July 2024, Valencia, Spain. 

• Poster presentation at FCS“National Workshop on Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy” IITB 16-21 November 2024. 

• Poster presentation at International Winter School 02-06 December 2024, at JNCASR, Bangalore.   

• Poster presentation at Chemical Science 2024: Leaders in the Field Symposium, 9-11 December 2024 IISER TVM. 

• Poster presentation at The 12th International Symposium on Dynamic Exciton (ISDyEx)  14-15 December 2024 at Hyatt Regency. 

• Poster presentation at International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2991 Start-Up Meeting 25-28 February 2025, organised at IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

Research Projects Prior to PhD

• Intersystem Crossing in N-Annulated Perylene Bisimide

Reports triplet population in nitrogen-annulated perylene bisimide (NPBI) and single bromine substituted NPBI (Br-NPBI) facilitated by a reduced singlet-triplet energy gap using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy in combination with computational methods (Part of M. Sc. Programme, May 2023.

      Project Supervisor: Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER TVM

• Deciphering the Triplet Excited States of Nitro-Terrylenediimides

Synthesis and crystallization of novel nitro derivatives of terrylenediimide, revealing the excited state dynamics using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy in combination with computational methods. 

(Part of M. Sc. Programme, November 2022) Project Supervisor: Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER TVM

• One-Pot Synthesis of Stable Metal Oxides (Cobalt Oxide, Copper Oxide, and Nickel Oxide) Using aloe barbadensis miller Extract:  A Green Approach 

     The green synthesis of highly stable metal oxides and structural, optical, and morphological properties were analyzed using XRD, FT-IR, SEM, and UV-vis absorption      measurements.

      (Part of BSc. Project March 2020) Project Supervisor: Dr. Niveditha C.V.

• Aqueous Extraction Of Piper Nigrum And A Review On Its Pharmacological Properties

A detailed review of literature on pharmacological activity and immune-boosting properties of pipernigrum (Part of CSIR-Summer Research Training Program June-August2020- CSIR-NEIST Jorhat).

Project Supervisor: Dr. Snigdha Pattnaik& Dr. Taraprasanna Dash 

Teaching Assistance

• Physical Chemistry I (Course code: CHY221) January-April 2024

• Physical Chemistry Lab (Course code: CHY415) Aug-Nov 2023

Outreach Programme

• Mentor and organizer for Yusuf Hameed Chemistry Camp 2023, jointly organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry and IISER TVM. 

• Participated state leadership program of the National Service Scheme 2016 at Alappuzha. 

• Participated state leadership program of Walk with Scholar (WWS) 2018 at Calicut University. 

• Junior Red Cross volunteer for 2014-2015.