Faculty:

 

1. Dr R S Swathi (Assistant Professor)

 

R. S. Swathi was born in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. She did her schooling at

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Banavasi, Kurnool. She studied an integrated

B. Sc. Ed (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) (1999-2003) course at Regional

Institute of Education, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Subsequently, she obtained

an M. Sc. in Chemistry (2003-2005) from Indian Institute of Technology,

Guwahati, Assam, India. She did her Ph. D (2005-2010) at the Department

of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,

India under the supervision of Prof. K. L. Sebastian. Since September 2010,

she has been working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science

Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

 

Awards and Recognitions:

 

16. Distinguished Lectureship Award of the Japanese Chemical Society for work on Theoretical Chemistry, awarded during the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Chemical Society in March 2015.

15. Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore for the duration 2014-2017.

14. Dr. J. C. Ghosh medal for the best PhD thesis in Physical Chemistry for the year 2010-2011.

13. Participated at the 59th meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Germany as a representative of Siemens Information Systems  

      Limited (I was one among the two representatives selected from India).

12. Bristol-Myers-Squibb Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for the period 2008-2010.

11. Best Poster Presentation Award at the Discussion meeting on Theoretical Chemistry (TCS-2009) for the poster " Fluorescence

      resonance energy transfer-Does the rate always have a (distance)-6 dependence? " held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

10. A. R. VASUDEVAMURTHY-S. SOUNDARARAJAN Prize for the best student seminar at the Department of Inorganic and Physical

      Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

9. Best Poster Presentation Award at the First Asian Spectroscopy Conference (ASC-2007) for the poster "Rate of excitation energy

    transfer from a dye molecule to a metal nanoparticle” held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

8. A. R. VASUDEVAMURTHY-S. SOUNDARARAJAN Prize for the best performance in course work at the Department of Inorganic and

    Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

7. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE'05) with an All India Rank of 29 (Percentile score: 99.14).

6. Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lectureship awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2004.

5. Institute Silver Medal for being the topper at M. Sc. Chemistry program in the 7th convocation of Indian Institute of Technology,

    Guwahati, Assam.

4. Royal Society of Chemistry Summer Fellow at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science,

    Bangalore.

3. Rank Certificate by the University of Mysore for topping the university at the undergraduate level.

2. Best Outgoing Student Award at the Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, Karnataka.

1. Prashant Memorial Award for the Best Outgoing Student at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.

 

 

 

2. Dr Vennapusa Sivaranjana Reddy (Assistant Professor)

 

Born in 1982

Permanent Address:

Venkatampalli (vi) Kallur (PO) Yellanur (Mandal) Anantapur (Dist) A. P India

 

Education

XII Class:   Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Lepakshi, Anantapur Dist., A. P (1999)

B.Sc       :   Government Arts College, Kadapa, S. V. University Tirupati, A.P (2003)

M. Sc.    :   University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telengana (2005)

Ph. D     :   University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telengana (2010)

 

Professional Experience

May 2015 – present:        Assistant Professor, IISER TVM

April 2013 – April 2015:   ITbM Postdoctoral Fellow, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
                                            (Mentor: Prof. Stephan Irle)

Dec 2012 – March 2013: CREST Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University                                                           Nagoya, Japan (Mentor: Prof. Stephan Irle)

May 2011 – Oct 2012:     Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University                                                                  Heidelberg, Germany (Mentor: Prof. Horst Koeppel)

 

Awards and Recognitions:

1. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow

2. Qualified in GATE-2005 (Chemistry) with an All India Rank 6 (99.83 percentile)

3. Qualified in UGC-CSIR exam-2005, and appeared for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship exam

4. Awarded merit-scholarship for being in top 5 in the class during M. Sc. at University of Hyderabad