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Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Material Science

Chemistry has become increasingly interdisciplinary as the fundamental queries of sciences focus on the chemical nature of matter.

IISER Pune’s Chemistry division offers research opportunities for the degree of Doctor Philosophy in a wide range of interest from traditional physical, inorganic, organic, organometallic chemistry to new frontiers of chemical biology, material research and nano science.

Some of the current areas of interest:

Laser spectroscopy of isolated and solvated biomolecules in the gas phase
Photoelectron spectroscopy of complex polyatomics using synchrotron radiation
Design, synthesis and characterization of porphyrinoids, photo dynamic therapy
Synthesis of luminescent materials for organic light emitting diodes
Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids, peptides carbohydrates, and lipids, Nucleic acid
therapeutics and diagnostic
Synthesis and conformational analysis of hybrid peptides containing non-natural amino acids
Design and synthesis of peptides of medical relevance: small molecule inhibitors for HIV-1 and host cell interactions
Synthetic methodology, total synthesis of natural products, small molecule inhibitors for Proteases and Glycosidases
Biomimetics, Bio-inspired Chemistry and Nanoscience
Computational chemistry of condensed phase systems

By cultivating both strong academic relations between our students and faculty, and successful connection between course and research programmes, students at IISER-Pune can succeed at the frontiers of research in chemistry and chemical biology.

Enquiries about chemistry at IISER may be addressed to: Dr. Arun Venkatnathan ( arun at iiserpune.ac.in )

Faculty Positions Centres of Excellence

Faculty Members

Name	Designation	Research
Anand, V. G.	Assistant Professor	Porphyrinoids, Molecular recognition, Luminescent materials
Ballav, Nirmalya	Assistant Professor	Nanoscience, Self-Assembled Monolayers, Electron-Beam-Lithography, Molecular Spintronics
Bhat, Ramakrishna G.	Assistant Professor	Chemical biology, molecular mimicry, drug design, peptide and organic synthesis
Boomi Shankar, R	Assistant Professor	Main Group and Organometallic Chemistry
Chakrapani, Harinath	Assistant Professor	Organic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Nitric Oxide Prodrugs
Das, Aloke	Assistant Professor	Laser spectroscopy, Jet-cooled laser desorption, Conformations of biomolecules, Photoelectron spectroscopy, Synchrotron radiation
Ganesh, Krishna N.	Director, IISER Pune J C Bose Fellow, NCL Professor and Coordinator, Chemistry	Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids, peptides, lipids; drug development, DNA diagnostics and nanotechnology
Ghosh, Prasenjit	Assistant Professor	Computational material science; DFT based techniques; heterogeneous catalysis; low-dimensional systems; charge transfer excitations
Ghosh, Sujit K.	Assistant Professor	Functional Coordination Chemistry, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials, Supramolecular Chemistry
Gopi, Hosahudya N.	Assistant Professor	Peptides and hybrid miniproteins, inhibitors for HIV-1 and host cell interactions
Hazra, Anirban	Assistant Professor	Theoretical Chemistry
Hazra, Partha	Assistant Professor	Photophysics and biophysics
Hotha, Srinivas	Swarnajayanti Fellow Associate Professor	Glycochemical Biology
Jayakannan, M.	Associate Professor	Polymer chemistry and nano-materials
Jeganmohan, M	Assistant Professor	Organometallic chemistry, Asymmetric synthesis
Kikkeri, Raghavendra	Assistant Professor	Carbohydrates, Nanoparticles, Porous Silicon, Sialic acid and Glycomics
Madhava Rao, B S	Visiting Faculty	Pulse radiolysis, Time resolved spectroscopy, Fast kinetics
Mandal, Pankaj	Assistant Professor	Terahertz spectroscop - applications to nanoscience and biomolecule dynamics
Mukherjee, Arnab	Assistant Professor	Theoretical and computational chemistry, biophysics
Natu, Arvind Anant	Visiting Faculty	Organic chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, biology in drug discovery
Puranik, Mrinalini	Associate Professor (joining February 2012)	Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy of proteins, Nucleic acids
Srivatsan, S. G.	Assistant Professor	Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry, assay development, functionalised nucleic acids
Talukdar, Pinaki	Assistant Professor	Supramolecular chemistry in lipid membranes, synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry.
Vaidhyanathan, R.	Assistant Professor (joining February 2012)	Metal organic frameworks for selective carbon dioxide sequestration
Venkatnathan, Arun	Assistant Professor	Molecular modelling, fuel cells and computational quantum chemistry
Adjunct Faculty
Pal, Sourav	NCL, Pune
Fellows
Kumar, Pavan G V	Ramanujan Fellow	Raman Microscopy, Plasmonics, Classical Optics
Verma, Seema	IISER Fellow	Magnetic nanoparticles, functional nanomaterials