Regular Faculty Manish Mishra Assistant Professor Mathematics Representation theory of p-adic groups, Langlands Program Nixon M. Abraham Assistant Professor Biology Neural circuits and behaviour; Olfaction G. Ambika Professor Physics Chaos and nonlinear dynamics, synchronisation, Multifractal analysis V. G. 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Bhas Bapat Associate Professor Physics Atomic collisions, molecular fragmentation, photochemistry of of heterogeneous phases, Auger electron spectroscopy. Deepak Barua Assistant Professor Biology Plant physiology, physiological ecology and evolutionary ecology Rabeya Basu Assistant Professor Mathematics Algebra Chandrasheel Bhagwat Assistant Professor Mathematics Representation theory, Analysis & Geometry of locally symmetric spaces, Number Theory Mousomi Bhakta Assistant Professor Mathematics Elliptic PDE, nonlinear analysis, variational methods Ramakrishna G. Bhat Associate Professor Chemistry Chemical biology, molecular mimicry, drug design, peptide and organic synthesis Arijit Bhattacharyay Associate Professor Biology Physics Complex and dynamical systems, biophysics, pattern formation Anup Biswas Assistant Professor Mathematics Controlled diffusion, queuing theory, large deviation theory R. 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Ganesh Director, IISER Pune Professor Chemistry Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids, peptides, lipids; drug development, DNA diagnostics and nanotechnology Aurnab Ghose Associate Professor Biology Neurobiology Prasenjit Ghosh Assistant Professor Chemistry Physics Atomistic modeling of Materials Sujit K. Ghosh Associate Professor Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry. Boopathy Gnanaprakasam Assistant Professor Chemistry Natural products synthesis, Asymmetric synthesis, Homogeneous catalysis, Flow chemistry, Fluorination methods Pranay Goel Associate Professor Biology Mathematics Mathematical biology. Nonlinear dynamical systems, multiscale methods. Theoretical neuroscience, cardiac physiology, diabetes Hosahudya N. Gopi Associate Professor Chemistry Peptides and hybrid miniproteins, inhibitors for HIV-1 and host cell interactions Anindya Goswami Assistant Professor Mathematics Stochastic Control, Mathematical Finance Amrita Hazra Assistant Professor Biology Chemistry Enzyme mechanisms, Chemical biology of microbes Anirban Hazra Assistant Professor Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry Partha Hazra Associate Professor Chemistry Photophysics and biophysics Amit Hogadi Associate Professor Mathematics Algebraic geometry Srinivas Hotha Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Chemistry Chemistry Glycochemical Biology M. Jayakannan Associate Professor and Chair, Chemistry Chemistry Polymer chemistry and nano-materials Neena Joseph Mani Assistant Professor Earth and Climate Science Climate dynamics, Tropical variability, Monsoons, numerical weather prediction, predictability. Mukul Kabir Assistant Professor Physics Materials Modeling Krishna Kaipa Assistant Professor Mathematics Algebraic Geometric Coding theory Tejas Kalelkar Assistant Professor Mathematics Low dimensional Topology Jeet Kalia Assistant Professor Biology Chemistry Chemical Biology: Ion channels, lipids, and bioconjugation Siddhesh S Kamat Assistant Professor Biology Chemistry Chemical Biology, Metabolomics, Chemoproteomics, Lipid Metabolism, Protein Biochemistry Saikrishnan Kayarat Associate Professor Biology Structural biology Shabana Khan Assistant Professor Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Raghavendra Kikkeri Assistant Professor Chemistry Carbohydrates, Nanoparticles, Porous Silicon, Sialic acid and Glycomics Mayurika Lahiri Associate Professor Biology DNA damage and cell cycle, 3D studies of breast cancer progression Jeganmohan M. Associate Professor Chemistry Organometallic chemistry, Asymmetric synthesis M. S. Madhusudhan Associate Professor Biology Bioinformatics and Structure Ayan Mahalanobis Assistant Professor Mathematics Public key cryptography, finite group theory T. S. Mahesh Associate Professor Physics NMR spectroscopy, quantum information, optimal control and artificial intelligence Soumen Maity Associate Professor Mathematics Combinatorics,cryptography, algorithms, statistical designs, software testing Moumita Majumdar Assistant Professor Chemistry Main Group Chemistry-Catalysis and Materials Applications Vivek Mohan Mallick Assistant Professor Mathematics Algebraic Geometry Pankaj Mandal Assistant Professor Chemistry Terahertz spectroscop - applications to nanoscience and biomolecule dynamics John Mathew Associate Professor Humanities and Social Sciences Natural History, Colonial History of Science, History of Zoology, Environmental History Rama Mishra Associate Professor Mathematics Knot theory, low dimensional topology, real algebraic geometry Arnab Mukherjee Associate Professor Chemistry Theoretical and computational chemistry, biophysics Sunil Mukhi Professor and Chair, Physics Physics String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Physics Muhammed Musthafa Assistant Professor Chemistry Interfacial Electrochemistry, Functionalized Surfaces, Energy Conversion and Storage Devices, Water Splitting, Sensors Suhita Nadkarni Assistant Professor Biology Biophysical models of synaptic plasticity in health and disease Angshuman Nag Assistant Professor Chemistry Colloidal nanocrystals, Photophysics, Opto-electronics Sunil Nair Assistant Professor Physics Strongly correlated electron systems Rejish Nath Assistant Professor Physics Quantum Optics, Atom Optics, Condensed Matter Physics Satishchandra Ogale Professor Physics Solar Energy, Energy Storage, Graphene and Functional Carbon, Oxide Electronics and Spintronics, Pattern Formation Venketeswara R Pai Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences History and Development of Astronomy and Mathematics in India, History and Development of Vakya system of Astronomy, Kerala School of Astronomy, Manuscriptology, Scientific Literature in Sanskrit and Malayalam, Paninian Grammar Gayathri Pananghat Assistant Professor Biology Structural Biology of Cytoskeletal Systems Sagar Pandit Assistant Professor Biology Chemical and molecular ecology of multitrophic interactions involving plant, herbivore and its natural enemies Shivprasad Patil Associate Professor Physics Nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy and single molecular interactions Pramod Pillai Assistant Professor Chemistry Functional nanomaterials: Hybrid nanostructures for self-assembly, light harvesting and bio-targeting studies. Supriya Pisolkar Assistant Professor Mathematics Number Theory Thomas Pucadyil Assistant Professor Biology Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vesicular Transport Jahnavi Punekar Assistant Professor (Contractual) Earth and Climate Science Micropalaeontology, Biostratigraphy, Palaeobiology A. Raghuram Professor and Chair, Mathematics Mathematics Langlands Program, Representations of p-adic and adelic groups and their associated L-functions Atikur Rahman Assistant Professor Physics Quantum transport in nanoelectronic devices, applications of quasi-1D and 2D materials and their heterostructures for energy harvesting and sensing, self-assembly based nanopatterning, nanofabrication. Shyam S. Rai Professor and Chair, Earth and Climate Science Earth and Climate Science Geophysical data modelling, Inverse theory & its application, Deep earth exploration & understanding the earth process Sudha Rajamani Assistant Professor Biology Chemistry Origins of life Umakant D. Rapol Assistant Professor Physics Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy, quantum optics and quantum information processing, biosensors Girish Ratnaparkhi Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Biology Biology Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic development, drosophilia Richa Rikhy Assistant Professor Biology Cell Biology of development and differentiation: Membrane trafficking and polarity M. S. Santhanam Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Physics Physics Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum chaos, statistical physics, complexity Kundan Sengupta Assistant Professor Biology Chromosome biology in development and disease Seema Sharma Assistant Professor Physics Experimental High Energy Physics L. S. Shashidhara Professor and Chair, Biology Biology Evolution of appendage forms, functional genomics, drug discovery Anupam Kumar Singh Associate Professor Mathematics Linear algebraic groups, Lie algebra, central simple algebras and quadratic forms Surjeet Singh Assistant Professor Physics Magnetism and superconductivity, single-crystal growth Kaneenika Sinha Assistant Professor Mathematics Analytic number theory, Arithmetic of modular forms Pushkar Sohoni Assistant Professor Humanities and Social Sciences (Joining Nov. 2016) Historic Preservation; Islamic Architecture; Indo-Persian Cultural History; Early Modern Trade Networks; Numismatics; Archaeology Steven Spallone Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Mathematics Mathematics Representation Theory S. G. Srivatsan Associate Professor Chemistry Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry, assay development, functionalised nucleic acids Prasad Subramanian Associate Professor Physics Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and black hole accretion Pinaki Talukdar Associate Professor Chemistry Supramolecular chemistry in lipid membranes, synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. Arun M. Thalapillil Assistant Professor Physics Theoretical High Energy Physics Gyana Ranjan Tripathy Assistant Professor Earth and Climate Science Weathering and Erosion; Re-Os Geochronology; Reconstruction of Past Marine redox conditions; Isotope geochemistry Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan Assistant Professor Chemistry Metal organic frameworks for selective carbon dioxide sequestration Suneeta Vardarajan Associate Professor Mathematics Physics Mathematical physics,Relativity, Ricci flow, String theory Arun Venkatnathan Associate Professor Chemistry Molecular modelling, fuel cells and computational quantum chemistry Milind Watve Professor Biology Microbiology, Eco-biology Visiting Faculty Aditi Deo Visiting Faculty Humanities and Social Sciences Ethnomusicology; Anthropology; Ethnography; Hindustani Khyal; Folk/tribal music in India; Heritage studies; Music and technologies Girish Deshpande Visiting Faculty (Contractual) Biology C. V. Dharmadhikari Visiting Faculty Physics Anil D. 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