New Chemistry Unit

The New Chemistry unit has been created by the Centre as part of the 11th Five Year Plan. This Unit will work on interdisciplinary aspects of chemical science. The most important areas that the Unit will concentrate on would be chemical biology and interfaces of chemical Science with materials. The Unit has excellent facilities for experimental work as well as computational and theoretical studies.

The Unit takes students desirous of pursuing research for the Ph.D. degree.

The following are the faculty members associated with this Unit:

Faculty Members

1. Prof. C.N.R. Rao (Chairman)

2. Dr. Subi Jacob George (Faculty Fellow)

Research areas: Functional Organic Materials, Organic and Supramolecular Synthesis, Supramolecular Polymers

3. Dr. T. Govindaraju (Faculty Fellow)

Research areas: Asymmetric Organic Synthesis, Peptide and Protein Chemistry, Biomaterials.

4. Dr. Jayanta Haldar (Faculty fellow)

5. Prof. H. Illa

6. Dr. Sebastian C Peter (Ramanujan Fellow)

Research areas: Inorganic Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry

7. Dr. Ujjal Gautam(Ramanujan Fellow)

Associate Faculty Members

1. Prof. Swapan K. Pati, ( Professor)

2. Prof. A. Sundaresan, (Associate Professor)

3. Prof. M. Eswaramoorthy, (Associate Professor)