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FACULTY PROFILE GUIDE Building a culture of excellence and expanding IISER Pune offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Director , Chemistry, Earth and Climate Science, Humanities Prof. K.N. Ganesh the frontiers of knowledge, we are at the forefront and Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics. In just about a decade, IISER Pune has emerged as a prominent academic Deans of training the next generation of scientists and organization, bringing together researchers who impart high Research and Development Prof. Sanjeev Galande quality science education. From particle physics to origins of Faculty Prof. Shyam Rai informed citizens. life, new materials for energy solutions to current issues in Doctoral Studies Dr. Amit Hogadi number theory, algebra and more, researchers at the institute Graduate Studies Prof. G. Ambika investigate a wide spectrum of topics in basic as well as Student Affairs Dr. Shivprasad Patil applied areas. Chairs of Disciplines Biology Prof. Sanjeev Galande Chemistry Prof. M. Jayakannan Earth and Climate Science Prof. Shyam Rai Mathematics Prof. A. Raghuram Physics Prof. Sunil Mukhi Humanities and Prof. L.S. Shashidhara Social Sciences (Acting Chair) Ramana Athreya Sanjeev Galande Sutirth Dey Associate Professor Professor Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Biodiversity research and conservation , chromatin biology, regulation of Population dynamics, life-history evolution, gene expression, nuclear organization and simulations Richa Rikhy function Assistant Professor Thomas Pucadyil [email protected] Siddhesh Kamat Associate Professor Cell biology of development and Assistant Professor [email protected] Anjan Banerjee Girish Deshpande Milind Watve differentiation: Membrane trafficking and [email protected] Membrane biochemistry and biophysics, Associate Professor Visiting Professor Professor polarity Chemical biology, metabolomics, chemo vesicular transport [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] , lipid metabolism, protein Plant developmental biology, micro RNA and Germ cell migration Microbiology, eco-biology Sagar Pandit biochemistry V.S. Rao gene regulation, long distance signalling and Assistant Professor Visiting Professor plant-pathogen interactions Girish Ratnaparkhi N.K. Subhedar [email protected] Sudha Rajamani [email protected] Associate Professor Visiting Professor Chemical and molecular ecology of Assistant Professor Plant biology, plant genetics, breeding Aurnab Ghose [email protected] [email protected] multitrophic interactions involving plant, [email protected] Associate Professor Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic Neurobiology, neuropeptides and behavior herbivore and its natural enemies Origins of life Vineeta Bal [email protected] development Visiting Professor Neurobiology: Development, design and Nagaraj Balasubramanian Saikrishnan Kayarat Suhita Nadkarni [email protected] functional plasticity of neuronal circuits Krishanpal Karmodiya Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Pathways regulating DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] the fate of T lymphocytes in immune Nixon M. Abraham [email protected] Cell biology: Cell adhesion, trafficking, cell Structural biology: Mechanism of Biophysical models of synaptic plasticity in responses Assistant Professor Epigenetics and transcriptional control in migration and growth macromolecular machines health and disease [email protected] Plasmodium Neural circuits and behavior; olfaction Neelesh Dahanukar Kundan Sengupta DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow Chaitanya Athale Assistant Professor [email protected] Associate Professor [email protected] Ecology and evolution [email protected] Chromosome biology in development and Self-organization and cell morphogenesis disease Nishad Matange DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow Collins Assisi L.S. Shashidhara [email protected] Assistant Professor Professor Metabolic correlates of antibiotic resistance- [email protected] [email protected] associated fitness costs in bacteria Information processing by neuronal networks Evolution of appendage forms, functional , drug discovery Pranay Goel A.A. Natu Amrita Hazra Anirban Hazra Deepak Barua Associate Professor Visiting Faculty Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor M.S. Madhusudhan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Associate Professor Mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamical Organic chemistry, combinatorial Enzyme mechanisms, chemical biology of Theoretical chemistry Plant physiology, physiological ecology and [email protected] systems, multiscale methods chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, biology in microbes evolutionary ecology and structure drug discovery Arnab Mukherjee Raghav Rajan Angshuman Nag Associate Professor Gayathri Pananghat Mayurika Lahiri DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow Aloke Das Assistant Professor [email protected] Assistant Professor Associate Professor [email protected] Associate Professor [email protected] Theoretical and computational chemistry, [email protected] [email protected] Neural mechanisms underlying movement [email protected] Colloidal nanocrystals, photophysics, opto- biophysics Structural biology of cytoskeletal systems DNA damage and cell cycle, 3D studies of initiation in songbirds Gas phase laser spectroscopy, noncovalent electronics breast cancer progression interactions in biomolecules Arun Venkatnathan Krishna N. Ganesh Pinaki Talukdar Shabana Khan Srinivas Hotha V.G. Anand Associate Professor Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Molecular modelling, fuel cells and Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids, Supramolecular chemistry in lipid membranes, Inorganic chemistry and catalysis Glycochemical biology Porphyrinoids, molecular recognition, computational quantum chemistry peptides, lipids; drug development, DNA synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry luminescent materials diagnostics and nanotechnology S. Sandanaraj Britto Sujit K. Ghosh B.S. Madhava Rao Pramod Pillai Assistant Professor Associate Professor Visiting Faculty M. Jayakannan Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Professor [email protected] Chemical biology/physiology & optical Inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry Pulse radiolysis, time resolved spectroscopy, [email protected] Functional nanomaterials: Hybrid molecular imaging of whole organisms fast kinetics Polymer chemistry and nano-materials nanostructures for self-assembly, light Sudipta Basu harvesting and bio-targeting studies Srabanti Chaudhury DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow Boopathy Gnanaprakasam Moumita Majumdar Assistant Professor [email protected] Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ramakrishna G. Bhat [email protected] Chemical biology, signalling pathways and [email protected] [email protected] Associate Professor Chemical physics, theoretical biophysics drug development Natural products synthesis, asymmetric Main Group chemistry: Catalysis and [email protected] synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, flow materials applications Chemical biology, molecular mimicry, drug chemistry, fluorination methods design, peptide and organic synthesis Muhammed Musthafa Harinath Chakrapani Assistant Professor R. Boomi Shankar Associate Professor [email protected] Associate Professor [email protected] Interfacial electrochemistry, functionalized [email protected] Organic chemistry, drug discovery, nitric surfaces, energy conversion and storage Main Group and organometallic chemistry oxide prodrugs devices, water splitting, sensors R. Vaidhyanathan Hosahudya N. Gopi Neeraja Dashaputre Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Metal organic frameworks for selective Peptides and hybrid miniproteins, inhibitors Chemical education, pedagogy carbon dioxide sequestration for HIV-1 and host cell interactions development Argha Banerjee Neena Joseph Mani Soumi Chakravorty Raghavendra Kikkeri Assistant Professor Assistant Professor DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow Jeet Kalia Nirmalya Ballav Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Assistant Professor Associate Professor [email protected] Himalayan glaciers Climate dynamics, tropical variability, Physical and dynamical oceanography; [email protected] [email protected] Carbohydrates, nanoparticles, porous monsoons, numerical weather prediction, tropical ocean and atmospheric coupled Chemical biology: Ion channels, lipids, and Nanoscience, self-assembled monolayers, silicon, sialic acid and glycomics Gyana Ranjan Tripathy predictability processes; monsoon interannual variability bioconjugation electron-beam-lithography, molecular Assistant Professor spintronics S.G. Srivatsan [email protected] Shyam S. Rai Suhas Ettamal Jeetender Chugh Associate Professor Weathering and erosion, Re-Os Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Pankaj Mandal [email protected] geochronology, reconstruction of past marine [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Assistant Professor Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry, redox conditions, Isotope geochemistry Geophysical data modelling, Inverse theory Earth science NMR spectroscopy of biomolecules [email protected] assay development, functionalised nucleic & its application, Deep earth exploration & Terahertz spectroscopy: Applications to acids Jahnavi Punekar understanding the earth process Jeganmohan M. nanoscience and biomolecule dynamics Assistant Professor Associate Professor Seema Verma [email protected] [email protected] Partha Hazra Faculty Fellow Micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy, Organometallic chemistry, asymmetric Associate Professor [email protected] palaeobiologyy synthesis [email protected] Magnetic nanoparticles, functional Photophysics and biophysics nanomaterials Ayan Mahalanobis Krishna Kaipa Steven Spallone Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Public key cryptography, finite group theory Algebraic geometric coding theory Representation theory

Baskar Balasubramanyam Manish Mishra Supriya Pisolkar Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Number theory Representation theory of p-adic groups, Number theory Langlands program Aditi Deo Pooja Sancheti Venketeswara R. Pai Chandrasheel Bhagwat Tejas Kalelkar Visiting Faculty Visiting Faculty Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Mousomi Bhakta Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Assistant Professor [email protected] Ethnomusicology, anthropology, ethnography, Postmodernist fiction, magical realism, History and development of astronomy and Representation theory, analysis & geometry [email protected] Low-dimensional topology Hindustani khyal, folk/tribal music in India, myth, English language teaching, narrative mathematics in India; history and development of locally symmetric spaces, number theory Elliptic PDE, nonlinear analysis, variational heritage studies, music and technologies theories, art & aesthetics of vakya system of astronomy; Kerala school methods Uttara-Naik Nimbalkar of astronomy; manuscriptology; scientific Debargha Banerjee Visiting Faculty John Mathew Pushkar Sohoni literature in Sanskrit and Malayalam, Assistant Professor Rabeya Basu [email protected] Associate Professor Assistant Professor Paninian grammar [email protected] Assistant Professor Statistical modeling and inference, survival [email protected] [email protected] Automorphic forms, Galois representations, [email protected] analysis, reliability Natural history, colonial history of science, Historic preservation; Islamic architecture; Langlands program, arithmetic geometry Algebra history of zoology, environmental history Indo-Persian cultural history; early modern Vivek Mohan Mallick trade networks; numismatics; archaeology Diganta Borah Rama Mishra Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Algebraic geometry Several complex variables Knot theory, low dimensional topology, real algebraic geometry Kaneenika Sinha Assistant Professor Soumen Maity [email protected] Associate Professor Analytic number theory, arithmetic of [email protected] modular forms Combinatorics, cryptography, algorithms, statistical designs, software testing

A. Raghuram Anindya Goswami Anup Biswas Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Langlands program, representations of p-adic Stochastic control, mathematical finance Controlled diffusion, queuing theory, large and adelic groups and their associated deviation theory L-functions Anisa Chorwadwala Assistant Professor Anupam Kumar Singh Amit Hogadi [email protected] Associate Professor Associate Professor Shape optimization problems [email protected] [email protected] Linear algebraic groups, Lie algebra, central Algebraic geometry simple algebras and quadratic forms Ramana Athreya Shouvik Datta Sunil Nair Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources, Semiconductor physics, optical Strongly correlated electron systems high redshift universe, imaging techniques spectroscopy, electronic defects, nanostuctures, optoelectronics Surjeet Singh Rejish Nath Associate Professor Assistant Professor Sourabh Dube [email protected] [email protected] Assistant Professor Magnetism and superconductivity, single Quantum optics, atom optics, condensed [email protected] crystal growth Ashna Bajpai Bhas Bapat M.S. Santhanam matter physics Experimental high energy physics Ramanujan Fellow Associate Professor Associate Professor Sreejith G.J. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Satish Ogale Sudarshan Ananth Assistant Professor Spintronics, functionalized carbon nanotubes, Atomic collisions, molecular fragmentation, Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum Professor Associate Professor [email protected] electronic correlations and magnetism photochemistry of heterogeneous phases, chaos, statistical physics, complexity [email protected] [email protected] Theoretical condensed matter physics - Auger electron spectroscopy Solar energy, energy storage, graphene and Theoretical particle physics strongly correlated systems, quantum Hall Aparna Deshpande Mukul Kabir functional carbon, oxide electronics and effects, frustrated systems Assistant Professor C.V. Dharmadhikari Assistant Professor spintronics, pattern formation Suneeta Vardarajan [email protected] Visiting Faculty [email protected] Associate Professor T.S. Mahesh Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM), [email protected] Materials modeling Seema Sharma [email protected] Associate Professor spectroscopy, and single atom and Surface diffusion and adsorption, STM, AFM Assistant Professor Mathematical physics, relativity, Ricci flow, [email protected] molecule manipulation with STM Nabamita Banerjee [email protected] string theory NMR spectroscopy, quantum information, Deepak Dhar Assistant Professor Experimental high energy physics optimal control and artificial intelligence Apratim Chatterji Distinguished Visiting Faculty [email protected] Sunil Mukhi Associate Professor [email protected] Quantum gravity, string theory, black holes, Shivprasad Patil Professor Umakant D. Rapol [email protected] Critical phenomena on fractals, branched study of strongly correlated systems from Associate Professor [email protected] Assistant Professor Statistical physics, soft condensed polymers, disordered magnets, self- gravity [email protected] String theory, quantum field theory, particle [email protected] matter, phase transitions, microfluidics organized criticality, proportionate growth Nanotechnology, atomic force microscopy physics Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy; in biology, protein-folding, models of super- Prasad Subramanian and single molecule interactions quantum optics and quantum information Arijit Bhattacharyay cooled liquids and glasses Associate Professor processing, biosensors Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] G. Ambika Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and Complex and dynamical systems, Professor black hole accretion biophysics, pattern formation [email protected] Chaos and nonlinear dynamics, Prasenjit Ghosh Arun Thalapillil synchronization, multifractal analysis Associate Professor Assistant Professor [email protected] [email protected] G.V. Pavan Kumar Atomistic modeling of materials Theoretical high energy physics Associate Professor [email protected] Rajeev Bhalerao Atikur Rahman Optical physics: Plasmonics, Raja Ramanna Fellow Assistant Professor nanophotonics, Raman scattering [email protected] [email protected] High-energy nuclear physics, relativistic Quantum transport in nanoelectronic devices, heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma applications of nanostructure materials for energy harvesting and sensing Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411 008, India INDIAN INSTITUTE OF T: +91 (20) 2590 8001 | W: www.iiserpune.ac.in SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (IISER) PUNE

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