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INDIAN INSTITUTE OFSCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (IISER) PUNE
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) PuneDr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411 008, IndiaT: +91 (20) 2590 8001 | W: www.iiserpune.ac.in
Building a culture of excellence and expanding
the frontiers of knowledge, we are at the forefront
of training the next generation of scientists and
informed citizens.
IISER Pune offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Climate Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics. In just about a decade, IISER Pune has emerged as a prominent academic organization, bringing together researchers who impart high quality science education. From particle physics to origins of life, new materials for energy solutions to current issues in number theory, algebra and more, researchers at the institute investigate a wide spectrum of topics in basic as well as applied areas.
Director Prof. K.N. Ganesh
Deans Research and Development Prof. Sanjeev GalandeFaculty Prof. Shyam RaiDoctoral Studies Dr. Amit HogadiGraduate Studies Prof. G. AmbikaStudent Affairs Dr. Shivprasad Patil
Chairs of Disciplines Biology Prof. Sanjeev Galande Chemistry Prof. M. JayakannanEarth and Climate Science Prof. Shyam RaiMathematics Prof. A. RaghuramPhysics Prof. Sunil MukhiHumanities and Prof. L.S. Shashidhara
Social Sciences (Acting Chair)
Anjan BanerjeeAssociate Professor
Plant developmental biology, micro RNA and
gene regulation, long distance signalling and
plant-pathogen interactions
Aurnab Ghose Associate Professor
Neurobiology: Development, design and
functional plasticity of neuronal circuits
Nixon M. AbrahamAssistant Professor
Neural circuits and behavior; olfaction
Chaitanya AthaleAssociate Professor
Self-organization and cell morphogenesis
Collins AssisiAssistant Professor
Information processing by neuronal networks
Deepak BaruaAssistant Professor
Plant physiology, physiological ecology and
evolutionary ecology
Gayathri PananghatAssistant Professor
Structural biology of cytoskeletal systems
Milind WatveProfessor
Microbiology, eco-biology
N.K. SubhedarVisiting Professor
Neurobiology, neuropeptides and behavior
Nagaraj BalasubramanianAssociate Professor
Cell biology: Cell adhesion, trafficking, cell
migration and growth
Neelesh DahanukarDST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
Ecology and evolution
Nishad Matange DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
Metabolic correlates of antibiotic resistance-
associated fitness costs in bacteria
Pranay Goel Associate Professor
Mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamical
systems, multiscale methods
Raghav RajanDBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow
Neural mechanisms underlying movement
initiation in songbirds
Girish DeshpandeVisiting Professor
Germ cell migration
Girish RatnaparkhiAssociate Professor
Gene regulation, innate immunity, embryonic
development
Krishanpal Karmodiya DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
Epigenetics and transcriptional control in
Plasmodium
Kundan SenguptaAssistant Professor
Chromosome biology in development and
disease
L.S. ShashidharaProfessor
Evolution of appendage forms, functional
genomics, drug discovery
M.S. MadhusudhanAssociate Professor
Bioinformatics and structure
Mayurika Lahiri Associate Professor
DNA damage and cell cycle, 3D studies of
breast cancer progression
Ramana AthreyaAssociate Professor
Biodiversity research and conservation
Richa RikhyAssistant Professor
Cell biology of development and
differentiation: Membrane trafficking and
polarity
Sagar PanditAssistant Professor
Chemical and molecular ecology of
multitrophic interactions involving plant,
herbivore and its natural enemies
Saikrishnan Kayarat Associate Professor
Structural biology: Mechanism of
macromolecular machines
A.A. NatuVisiting Faculty
Organic chemistry, combinatorial
chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, biology in
drug discovery
Aloke DasAssociate Professor
Gas phase laser spectroscopy, noncovalent
interactions in biomolecules
Amrita HazraAssistant Professor
Enzyme mechanisms, chemical biology of
microbes
Angshuman NagAssistant Professor
Colloidal nanocrystals, photophysics, opto-
electronics
Anirban HazraAssistant Professor
Theoretical chemistry
Arnab MukherjeeAssociate Professor
Theoretical and computational chemistry,
biophysics
Sanjeev Galande Professor
Epigenetics, chromatin biology, regulation of
gene expression, nuclear organization and
function
Siddhesh Kamat Assistant Professor
Chemical biology, metabolomics, chemo
proteomics, lipid metabolism, protein
biochemistry
Sudha RajamaniAssistant Professor
Origins of life
Suhita NadkarniAssistant Professor
Biophysical models of synaptic plasticity in
health and disease
Sutirth DeyAssociate Professor
Population dynamics, life-history evolution,
simulations
Thomas Pucadyil Associate Professor
Membrane biochemistry and biophysics,
vesicular transport
V.S. RaoVisiting Professor
Plant biology, plant genetics, breeding
Vineeta Bal Visiting Professor
Pathways regulating
the fate of T lymphocytes in immune
responses
Arun VenkatnathanAssociate Professor
Molecular modelling, fuel cells and
computational quantum chemistry
B.S. Madhava RaoVisiting Faculty
Pulse radiolysis, time resolved spectroscopy,
fast kinetics
Boopathy GnanaprakasamAssistant Professor
Natural products synthesis, asymmetric
synthesis, homogeneous catalysis, flow
chemistry, fluorination methods
Harinath ChakrapaniAssociate Professor
Organic chemistry, drug discovery, nitric
oxide prodrugs
Hosahudya N. GopiAssociate Professor
Peptides and hybrid miniproteins, inhibitors
for HIV-1 and host cell interactions
Jeet KaliaAssistant Professor
Chemical biology: Ion channels, lipids, and
bioconjugation
Jeetender ChughAssistant Professor
NMR spectroscopy of biomolecules
Jeganmohan M.Associate Professor
Organometallic chemistry, asymmetric
synthesis
Krishna N. GaneshProfessor
Biomolecular chemistry of nucleic acids,
peptides, lipids; drug development, DNA
diagnostics and nanotechnology
M. JayakannanProfessor
Polymer chemistry and nano-materials
Moumita MajumdarAssistant Professor
Main Group chemistry: Catalysis and
materials applications
Muhammed MusthafaAssistant Professor
Interfacial electrochemistry, functionalized
surfaces, energy conversion and storage
devices, water splitting, sensors
Neeraja DashaputreAssistant Professor
Chemical education, pedagogy
development
Nirmalya BallavAssociate Professor
Nanoscience, self-assembled monolayers,
electron-beam-lithography, molecular
spintronics
Pankaj MandalAssistant Professor
Terahertz spectroscopy: Applications to
nanoscience and biomolecule dynamics
Partha HazraAssociate Professor
Photophysics and biophysics
Pinaki TalukdarAssociate Professor
Supramolecular chemistry in lipid membranes,
synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry
Pramod PillaiAssistant Professor
Functional nanomaterials: Hybrid
nanostructures for self-assembly, light
harvesting and bio-targeting studies
Ramakrishna G. BhatAssociate Professor
Chemical biology, molecular mimicry, drug
design, peptide and organic synthesis
R. Boomi ShankarAssociate Professor
Main Group and organometallic chemistry
R. VaidhyanathanAssociate Professor
Metal organic frameworks for selective
carbon dioxide sequestration
Raghavendra KikkeriAssociate Professor
Carbohydrates, nanoparticles, porous
silicon, sialic acid and glycomics
S.G. SrivatsanAssociate Professor
Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry,
assay development, functionalised nucleic
acids
Seema VermaFaculty Fellow
Magnetic nanoparticles, functional
nanomaterials
Shabana KhanAssistant Professor
Inorganic chemistry and catalysis
S. Sandanaraj BrittoAssistant Professor
Chemical biology/physiology & optical
molecular imaging of whole organisms
Srabanti ChaudhuryAssistant Professor
Chemical physics, theoretical biophysics
Srinivas HothaAssociate Professor
Glycochemical biology
Sujit K. GhoshAssociate Professor
Inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry
Sudipta BasuDBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow
Chemical biology, signalling pathways and
drug development
V.G. AnandAssociate Professor
Porphyrinoids, molecular recognition,
luminescent materials
Argha BanerjeeAssistant Professor
Himalayan glaciers
Gyana Ranjan TripathyAssistant Professor
Weathering and erosion, Re-Os
geochronology, reconstruction of past marine
redox conditions, Isotope geochemistry
Jahnavi PunekarAssistant Professor
Micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy,
palaeobiologyy
Neena Joseph ManiAssistant Professor
Climate dynamics, tropical variability,
monsoons, numerical weather prediction,
predictability
Shyam S. RaiProfessor
Geophysical data modelling, Inverse theory
& its application, Deep earth exploration &
understanding the earth process
Soumi ChakravortyDST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow
Physical and dynamical oceanography;
tropical ocean and atmospheric coupled
processes; monsoon interannual variability
Suhas EttamalAssistant Professor
Earth science
Aditi DeoVisiting Faculty
Ethnomusicology, anthropology, ethnography,
Hindustani khyal, folk/tribal music in India,
heritage studies, music and technologies
John MathewAssociate Professor
Natural history, colonial history of science,
history of zoology, environmental history
Pooja SanchetiVisiting Faculty
Postmodernist fiction, magical realism,
myth, English language teaching, narrative
theories, art & aesthetics
Pushkar SohoniAssistant Professor
Historic preservation; Islamic architecture;
Indo-Persian cultural history; early modern
trade networks; numismatics; archaeology
Venketeswara R. PaiAssistant Professor
History and development of astronomy and
mathematics in India; history and development
of vakya system of astronomy; Kerala school
of astronomy; manuscriptology; scientific
literature in Sanskrit and Malayalam,
Paninian grammar
A. RaghuramProfessor
Langlands program, representations of p-adic
and adelic groups and their associated
L-functions
Amit HogadiAssociate Professor
Algebraic geometry
Anindya GoswamiAssistant Professor
Stochastic control, mathematical finance
Anisa ChorwadwalaAssistant Professor
Shape optimization problems
Anup BiswasAssistant Professor
Controlled diffusion, queuing theory, large
deviation theory
Anupam Kumar SinghAssociate Professor
Linear algebraic groups, Lie algebra, central
simple algebras and quadratic forms
Ayan MahalanobisAssistant Professor
Public key cryptography, finite group theory
Baskar BalasubramanyamAssistant Professor
Number theory
Chandrasheel BhagwatAssistant Professor
Representation theory, analysis & geometry
of locally symmetric spaces, number theory
Debargha BanerjeeAssistant Professor
Automorphic forms, Galois representations,
Langlands program, arithmetic geometry
Diganta BorahAssistant Professor
Several complex variables
Kaneenika SinhaAssistant Professor
Analytic number theory, arithmetic of
modular forms
Krishna KaipaAssistant Professor
Algebraic geometric coding theory
Manish MishraAssistant Professor
Representation theory of p-adic groups,
Langlands program
Mousomi BhaktaAssistant Professor
Elliptic PDE, nonlinear analysis, variational
methods
Rabeya BasuAssistant Professor
Algebra
Rama MishraAssociate Professor
Knot theory, low dimensional topology, real
algebraic geometry
Soumen MaityAssociate Professor
Combinatorics, cryptography, algorithms,
statistical designs, software testing
Steven SpalloneAssociate Professor
Representation theory
Supriya PisolkarAssistant Professor
Number theory
Tejas KalelkarAssistant Professor
Low-dimensional topology
Uttara-Naik NimbalkarVisiting Faculty
Statistical modeling and inference, survival
analysis, reliability
Vivek Mohan MallickAssistant Professor
Algebraic geometry
Ashna BajpaiRamanujan Fellow
Spintronics, functionalized carbon nanotubes,
electronic correlations and magnetism
Aparna DeshpandeAssistant Professor
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM),
spectroscopy, and single atom and
molecule manipulation with STM
Apratim ChatterjiAssociate Professor
Statistical physics, soft condensed
matter, phase transitions, microfluidics
Arijit BhattacharyayAssociate Professor
Complex and dynamical systems,
biophysics, pattern formation
Arun ThalapillilAssistant Professor
Theoretical high energy physics
Atikur RahmanAssistant Professor
Quantum transport in nanoelectronic devices,
applications of nanostructure materials for
energy harvesting and sensing
Bhas BapatAssociate Professor
Atomic collisions, molecular fragmentation,
photochemistry of heterogeneous phases,
Auger electron spectroscopy
C.V. DharmadhikariVisiting Faculty
Surface diffusion and adsorption, STM, AFM
Deepak DharDistinguished Visiting Faculty
Critical phenomena on fractals, branched
polymers, disordered magnets, self-
organized criticality, proportionate growth
in biology, protein-folding, models of super-
cooled liquids and glasses
G. AmbikaProfessor
Chaos and nonlinear dynamics,
synchronization, multifractal analysis
G.V. Pavan KumarAssociate Professor
Optical physics: Plasmonics,
nanophotonics, Raman scattering
M.S. SanthanamAssociate Professor
Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and quantum
chaos, statistical physics, complexity
Mukul KabirAssistant Professor
Materials modeling
Nabamita BanerjeeAssistant Professor
Quantum gravity, string theory, black holes,
study of strongly correlated systems from
gravity
Prasad SubramanianAssociate Professor
Plasma astrophysics, solar physics and
black hole accretion
Prasenjit GhoshAssociate Professor
Atomistic modeling of materials
Rajeev BhaleraoRaja Ramanna Fellow
High-energy nuclear physics, relativistic
heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma
Ramana AthreyaAssociate Professor
Active galaxies, galaxy cluster radio sources,
high redshift universe, imaging techniques
Rejish NathAssistant Professor
Quantum optics, atom optics, condensed
matter physics
Satish OgaleProfessor
Solar energy, energy storage, graphene and
functional carbon, oxide electronics and
spintronics, pattern formation
Seema SharmaAssistant Professor
Experimental high energy physics
Shivprasad PatilAssociate Professor
[email protected], atomic force microscopy and single molecule interactions
Shouvik DattaAssociate Professor
[email protected] physics, opticalspectroscopy, electronic defects,nanostuctures, optoelectronics
Sourabh DubeAssistant Professor
[email protected] high energy physics
Sudarshan AnanthAssociate Professor
[email protected] particle physics
Suneeta VardarajanAssociate Professor
[email protected] physics, relativity, Ricci flow,
string theory
Sunil MukhiProfessor
String theory, quantum field theory, particle
physics
Sunil NairAssistant Professor
Strongly correlated electron systems
Surjeet SinghAssociate Professor
Magnetism and superconductivity, single
crystal growth
Sreejith G.J.Assistant Professor
Theoretical condensed matter physics -
strongly correlated systems, quantum Hall
effects, frustrated systems
T.S. MaheshAssociate Professor
NMR spectroscopy, quantum information,
optimal control and artificial intelligence
Umakant D. RapolAssistant Professor
Atomic physics and precision spectroscopy;
quantum optics and quantum information
processing, biosensors
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OFSCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (IISER) PUNE
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) PuneDr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411 008, IndiaT: +91 (20) 2590 8001 | W: www.iiserpune.ac.in