Alumni
Ph. D. Students
Prof. Biju V. Pillai
Ph.D. (1999)
Designation: Professor, Research Institute for
Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Thesis: Photoinduced Electron Transfer Processes in Fullerene-Aniline and Fullerene- Heteroaromatic Dyads
Dr. Binil I. Ipe
Ph.D. (2003)
Designation: Materials Process and Physics Engineer for Boeing Research and Technology, USA
Thesis: Design and Studies of Some Chromophore Functionalized Metal Nanoparticles
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Dr. James P. V.
Ph.D. (2006)
Designation: Research Scientist, Bostik, Wisconsin, USA
Thesis: Synthesis and photophysical studies of Phenyleneethynylene Based Molecular Systems
Prof. Yoosaf K.
Ph.D. (2008)
Designation: Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India
Thesis: Supramolecular Organization of Metal Nanoparticles in Solution and of Phenyleneethynelenes on Surfaces
Dr. Vinayakan R.
Ph.D. (2009)
Designation: Assistant Professor, NSS Hindu College, Changanassery
Thesis: Cadmium Selenide Based Core- Shell Quantum Dots for Biosensing and Imaging Applications
Dr. Jino George
Ph.D. (2011)
Designation: Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
Thesis: Chiroptical Properties of Hybrid Gold Nanostructures
Dr. Jatish Kumar
Ph.D. (2012)
Designation: Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, India
Thesis: Anisotropic Nanostructures and Their Applications in Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy
Dr. Anoop Thomas
Ph.D. (2015)
Designation: Assistant Professor, IPC Department Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Thesis: Light Matter Interactions in Chromophore Bound Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles: From Strong Coupling to Electron Transfer
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Dr. Pratap Zalake
Ph.D. (2015)
Designation:
Thesis: Supramolecular organization of Phenyleneethynylenes: Role of Hydrogen Bonding and Host- Guest Interactions
Dr. Sabnam Kar
Ph.D. (2018)
Designation: DST Women scientist, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Thesis: Chiroptical Properties of Phenylalanine Conjugated Phenyleneethynylenes
Dr. Elizabeth Mariam Thomas
Ph.D. (2022)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Thesis: Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Blinking and Plasmon-Enhanced Photoluminescence
Dr. Swathi
Ph.D. (2022)
Designation:
Thesis: Symmetry Breaking and Chiroptical Properties in Phenyleneethynylene based Molecular Systems
Dr. Sujith M.
Ph.D. (2022)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Thesis: Chiroptical Properties in Molecules and Nanomaterials: From Ligand-Induced to Exciton-Coupled Chirality
Dr. Sanoop M. S.
Ph.D. (2023)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah, USA
Thesis: Template Assisted Chiral Induction: From Struturally Induced Chirality to Exciton-Coupled Chirality
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Dr. Ajaykumar M. P.
Ph.D. (2024)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Thesis: Plasmonic Nanostructures: Strong to Weak Coupling and Nanoscale Reactions
Dr. Devika Rajan
Ph.D. (2025)
Designation:
Thesis: Modulating Photoinduced Dynamics in InP Quantum Dots via Surface Modification and Ga Incorporation
Dr. Zeena S. Pillai
Ph.D. (2003)
Designation: Associate Professor, Chemistry,
School of Arts and Science Amirtapuri Kerala, India
Thesis: Synthesis and Photophysical Studies of Some Switchable Hemicyanine Systems
Dr. Sudeep P. K.
Ph.D. (2004)
Designation: Cabot Microelectronics, Chicago, USA
Thesis: Optical Investigations on the Clusters of Functionalized Fullerenes, Gold Nanospheres and Nanorods
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Dr. Shibu Joseph S. T.
Ph.D. (2007)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Fatima mata National College, Kerala, India
Thesis: Plasmon Coupling in Gold Nanorods
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Dr. Pramod Pillai
Ph.D. (2008)
Designation: Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
Thesis: Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Decorated Gold Nanorods and Carbon Nanotubes
Dr. A. R. Ramesh
Ph.D. (2011)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Government Victoria College, Palakkad, India
Thesis: Self-Organization and Photophysical Investigation of Phenyleneethynylenes
Dr. Pratheesh V. Nair
Ph.D. (2011)
Designation: Research staff, Advanced Molecular Materials Research Centre (AMMRC), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India
Thesis: Synthesis and photophysical properties of II-VI semiconductor nanostructures
Dr. Shanthil M.
Ph.D. (2015)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Government Victoria College, Palakkad, India
Thesis: Core-Shell Metal Nananostructures for Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy
Dr. Subila K. B.
Ph.D. (2015)
Designation: Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India
Thesis: Crystal Structure Dependent Properties of Quantum Dots and Charge Transfer Interactions in Heterojunction Nanorods
Dr. Reshmi Thomas
Ph.D. (2016)
Designation: Development Editor - ACS Publication
Thesis: Plasmonically Active Nanoassemblies: Modulation of Electric Field and Hybridization
(jointly with the guidance of Dr. R. S . Swathi)
Dr. Sandeep K.
Ph.D. (2018)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Government Victoria College, Palakkad, India
Thesis: Modulation of Charge Transfer and Photoluminescence of CdSe Quantum Dots by Surface Engineering
Dr. Hemna Fathima
Ph.D. (2020)
Designation: Publishing editor - RSC Publication
Thesis: Plasmonic Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Sensing
Dr. Reshma Mathew
Ph.D. (2022)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Thesis: Ultrafast Structural Dynamics during Excited-State Proton Transfer: A Nonlinear Spectroscopic Perspective
Dr. Manoj B.
Ph.D. (2023)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Christ University, Bangalore
Thesis: Exploration into Light Harvesting and CarrierDynamics in Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots
Dr. Vishnu E. K.
Ph.D. (2024)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow,
The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany
Thesis: Charge Carrier Dynamics in CdSe Nanocrystals: A Single-Particle Spectroscopy Perspective
Dr. Livin Paul
Ph.D. (2025)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Thesis: Quantum Emitters in Plasmonic Field: From Ensemble to Single-Particle Spectroscopy
BS-MS Students
Aravind B.
BS-MS (2020 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Thwahira Shirin A.
BS-MS (2020 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, EPFL, Switzerland
Asma Sherin
BS-MS (2019 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Florida State University, USA
Aksshay N. R.
BS-MS (2018 Batch)
Designation: PhD Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Akshaya C.
BS-MS (2017 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Hiba Haneena K.
BS-MS (2017 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Divya P. S.
BS-MS (2016 Batch)
Designation: PhD Scholar, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Dr. Shahana Nizar N. S.
BS-MS (2015 Batch)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut de Science et d'ingenierie Supramoleculaires (ISIS), University of Strasbourg, France
Lakshmy Priya A.
BS-MS (2015 Batch)
Designation: PhD Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dr. Jishnu Das C.
BS-MS (2014 Batch)
Designation: LTD Module Development Engineer, Intel Corporation
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Dr. Preethi Susan Mathew
BS-MS (2013 Batch)
Designation: Packing and R&D Engineer, Intel Corporation
Aswin Krishna R. C.
BS-MS (2013 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Akhila S.
BS-MS (2012 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India
Dr. Dinumol Devasia
BS-MS (2011 Batch)
Designation: TD module and Integration Yield Engineer, Intel Corporation
Dr. Athira George
BS-MS (2010 Batch)
Designation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Saranya P. S.
BS-MS (2008 Batch)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Hridya M. Biju
BS-MS (2020 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Lakshmi P.
BS-MS (2019 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Abhijith S.
BS-MS (2018 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, University of Rochester, USA
Divesh Nazar
BS-MS (2017 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Bowling Green State University, USA
Sreelekshmi V.
BS-MS (2016 Batch)
Designation: PhD Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Joel G. Reji
BS-MS (2016 Batch)
Designation: PhD Scholar, Indian Institute of science education and research Thiruvananthapuram, India
Nandita Mohandas
BS-MS (2015 Batch)
Designation: PhD Scholar, TIFR Hyderabad, India
Swathi Krishna
BS-MS (2014 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany
Anupriya E. S.
BS-MS (2014 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Dr. Mahima Unnikrishnan
BS-MS (2013 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Dr. Nila Mohan T. M.
BS-MS (2012 Batch)
Designation: Process Engineer, RTP Sustaining R&D, Applied Materials
Dr. Sanoop M. S.
BS-MS (2011 Batch)
Designation: PhD scholar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Neeraj Kumar
BS-MS (2010 Batch)
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