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Name	Designation		Research
Ambika, G	Associate Professor	Physics	Chaos and nonlinear dynamics, synchronisation, Multifractal analysis
Anand, V. G.	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Porphyrinoids, Molecular recognition, Luminescent materials
Ananth, Sudarshan	Ramanujan Fellow, DST Assistant Professor	Physics	Theoretical Particle Physics
Anisa Chorwadwala	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Mathematics	Shape Optimization Problems
Athale, Chaitanya	Assistant Professor	Biology	Self-organization and cell morphogenesis
Athreya, Ramana	Associate Professor	Biology, Physics	Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, high redshift Universe, imaging techniques, Biodiversity research and conservation, ornithology
Balasubramanian, Nagaraj	Wellcome Trust-DBT Senior Fellow Assistant Professor	Biology	Cell Biology: cell adhesion, trafficking, cell migration and growth
Balasubramanyam, Baskar	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Number Theory
Ballav, Nirmalya	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Nanoscience, Self-Assembled Monolayers, Electron-Beam-Lithography, Molecular Spintronics
Banerjee, Anjan	Assistant Professor	Biology	Plant developmental biology, Micro RNA (miRNA) and gene regulation, Long distance signalling and plant-pathogen interaction
Barua, Deepak	Assistant Professor	Biology	Plant physiology, physiological ecology and evolutionary ecology
Basu, Rabeya	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Algebra
Bhat, Ramakrishna G.	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Chemical biology, molecular mimicry, drug design, peptide and organic synthesis
Bhattacharyay, Arijit	Assistant Professor	Biology, Physics	Complex and dynamical systems, biophysics, pattern formation
Boomi Shankar, R	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Main Group and Organometallic Chemistry
Chakrapani, Harinath	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Organic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Nitric Oxide Prodrugs
Chatterji, Apratim	Assistant Professor	Physics	Statistical physics, soft condensed matter, phase transitions, microfluidics
Das, Aloke	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Laser spectroscopy, Jet-cooled laser desorption, Conformations of biomolecules, Photoelectron spectroscopy, Synchrotron radiation
Datta, Shouvik	Assistant Professor	Physics	Semiconductor physics, optical spectroscopy, electronic defects, nanostuctures, optoelectronics
Deshpande, Aparna	Assistant Professor	Physics	Atomic scale imaging & spectroscopy of graphene and other conducting surfaces with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), Manipulation of single atoms & molecules on conducting surfaces using STM
Dey, Sutirth	Assistant Professor	Biology	Population dynamics, life-history evolution, simulations, Drosophilia melanogaster
Galande, Sanjeev	Swarnajayanti Fellow Professor	Biology	Epigenetics, Chromatin biology, Regulation of gene expression, Nuclear organization and function
Ganesh, Krishna N.	Director, IISER Pune J C Bose Fellow, NCL Professor and Coordinator, Chemistry	Chemistry	Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids, peptides, lipids; drug development, DNA diagnostics and nanotechnology
Gangal, Anil D	Visiting faculty	Physics	Nonlinear dynamics,Calculus on Fractrals
Ghose, Aurnab	Assistant Professor	Biology	Neurobiology
Ghosh, Prasenjit	Assistant Professor	Chemistry, Physics	Computational material science; DFT based techniques; heterogeneous catalysis; low-dimensional systems; charge transfer excitations
Ghosh, Sujit K.	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Functional Coordination Chemistry, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry
Goel, Pranay	Assistant Professor	Biology, Mathematics	Mathematical biology. Nonlinear dynamical systems, multiscale methods. Theoretical neuroscience, cardiac physiology and diabetes
Gopi, Hosahudya N.	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Peptides and hybrid miniproteins, inhibitors for HIV-1 and host cell interactions
Goswami, Anindya	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Stochastic Control, Mathematical Finance
Hazra, Anirban	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Theoretical Chemistry
Hazra, Partha	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Photophysics and biophysics
Hotha, Srinivas	Swarnajayanti Fellow Associate Professor	Chemistry	Glycochemical Biology
Jayakannan, M.	Associate Professor	Chemistry	Polymer chemistry and nano-materials
Jeganmohan, M	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Organometallic chemistry, Asymmetric synthesis
Kayarat, Saikrishnan	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Biology	Structural biology
Kikkeri, Raghavendra	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Carbohydrates, Nanoparticles, Porous Silicon, Sialic acid and Glycomics
Kulkarni, Sulabha	UGC Professor	Physics	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Lahiri, Mayurika	Assistant Professor	Biology	DNA damage and cell cycle, nitric oxide synthase and breast cancer
Madhava Rao, B S	Visiting Faculty	Chemistry	Pulse radiolysis, Time resolved spectroscopy, Fast kinetics
Mahalanobis, Ayan	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Public key cryptography, finite group theory
Mahesh, T. S.	Assistant Professor	Physics	NMR spectroscopy, quantum information, optimal control and artificial intelligence
Maity, Soumen	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Combinatorics,cryptography, algorithms, statistical designs, software testing
Mandal, Pankaj	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Terahertz spectroscop - applications to nanoscience and biomolecule dynamics
Mishra, Rama	Associate Professor	Mathematics	Knot theory, low dimensional topology, real algebraic geometry
Mohanan, K P	Professor	CIS	Theoretical linguistics, Epistemology of academic inquiries, Critical thinking and inquiry in education, Integrative education and research
Mukherjee, Arnab	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Theoretical and computational chemistry, biophysics
Nair, Sunil	Assistant Professor	Physics	Strongly correlated electron systems
Natu, Arvind Anant	Visiting Faculty	Chemistry	Organic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, biology in drug discovery
Parthasarathi, R	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Algebraic geometry
Patil, Shivprasad	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Physics	Nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy and single molecular interactions
Pucadyil, Thomas	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Biology	Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vesicular Transport
Puranik, Mrinalini	Associate Professor (joining February 2012)	Chemistry	Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy of proteins, Nucleic acids
Raghuram, A	Professor and Coordinator, Mathematics	Mathematics	Langlands Program, Representations of p-adic and adelic groups and their associated L-functions
Rao, V. S.	Visiting Faculty	Biology	Plant biology, plant genetics, breeding
Rapol, Umakant D.	Assistant Professor	Physics	Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy, quantum optics and quantum information processing, biosensors
Ratnaparkhi, Girish	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Biology	Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic development, drosophilia
Rikhy, Richa	Assistant Professor	Biology	Cell Biology of development and differentiation: Membrane trafficking and polarity
Santhanam, M. S.	Assistant Professor	Physics	Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum chaos, statistical physics, complexity
Sengupta, Kundan	Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow Assistant Professor	Biology	Chromosome biology in development and disease
Shashidhara, L. S.	J C Bose Fellow, DST Professor and Coordinator, Biology	Biology	Evolution of appendage forms, functional genomics, drug discovery
Shastry, Sreekar	Assistant Professor (Contract)	Mathematics
Singh, Anupam Kumar	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Linear algebraic groups, Lie algebra, central simple algebras and quadratic forms
Singh, Surjeet	Assistant Professor	Physics	Magnetism and superconductivity, single-crystal growth
Srivatsan, S. G.	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry, assay development, functionalised nucleic acids
Subhedar, N. K.	Visiting Faculty	Biology	Neurobiology, Neuropeptides and behaviour
Subramanian, Prasad	Assistant Professor	Physics	Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and black hole accretion
Talukdar, Pinaki	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Supramolecular chemistry in lipid membranes, synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry.
Vaidhyanathan, R.	Assistant Professor (joining February 2012)	Chemistry	Metal organic frameworks for selective carbon dioxide sequestration
Vardarajan, Suneeta	Associate Professor	Mathematics, Physics	Mathematical physics,Relativity, Ricci flow, String theory
Venkatnathan, Arun	Assistant Professor	Chemistry	Molecular modelling, fuel cells and computational quantum chemistry
Watve, Milind	Professor	Biology	Microbiology, Eco-biology
Fellows
Chaturvedi, Harsh	Ramanujan Fellow	Physics	Nanomaterials, molecular self-assembly and spectroscopy, Nanotube assemblies
Habib, Farhat	IISER Fellow	Biology	Bio-informatics
Iyer, Priya	IISER Fellow	Biology	Evolution of sexes and social systems
Khare, Avinash	Raja Ramanna Fellow	Physics	Theoretical particle physics, Non-linear dynamics, Supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Kumar, Pavan G V	Ramanujan Fellow	Chemistry, Physics	Raman Microscopy, Plasmonics, Classical Optics
Verma, Seema	IISER Fellow	Chemistry	Magnetic nanoparticles, functional nanomaterials
Adjunct Faculty
Dattagupta, Sushanta	Visva-Bharati University	Physics
Katre, S A	University of Pune	Mathematics
Nityananda, Rajaram	NCRA-TIFR, Pune	Physics
Ogale, Satishchandra B	NCL, Pune	Physics
Padmanabhan, Thanu	IUCAA, Pune	Physics
Pal, Sourav	NCL, Pune	Chemistry
Ramadorai, Sujatha	TIFR, Mumbai	Mathematics