NISER Faculty Profile

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National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) was set up by the Department of Atomic Energy

(DAE), Government of India at Bhubaneswar, Odisha in 2007. The mandate of NISER is to impart high quality

science education in a vibrant academic ambience and to conduct cutting edge research in all branches of

science. At present NISER is functioning from the campus of Institute of Physics, a premier research institute of

India situated in Bhubaneswar. Very soon, it will move to its campus situated at about 20 kilometers from

Bhubaneswar and about 3 kilometers from Khurda Road station on Kolkata-Chennai route.

NISER is envisaged to be a unique institution of its kind in India. It has been the first institute set up by DAE for

training world class scientists for conducting research in Indian laboratories as well as for producing teachers

who will generate future scientific man power. It strives to be recognized as a premier center of excellence in

science education and research. At present NISER has established schools in four basic sciences namely; biology,

chemistry, mathematics and physics. At a later stage, activities in other branches of science, such as earth and

planetary sciences, computer science and engineering sciences will be started. The main aim of NISER is to train

and nurture motivated world class researchers who will take up challenging research and teaching assignments

in universities, research laboratories and industries. Besides training students at masters and PhD levels, NISER

intends to carry out cutting edge research in all branches of science.

NISER will have a faculty strength of approximately 250 (including those for Humanities). The faculty is expected

to nurture the students with close interaction. The process for hiring regular faculty has started. Presently there

are about 44 permanent faculty and about 13 fixed-term faculty on contract for 2-5 years. The faculty in different

schools of NISER is selected after rigorous procedure. Besides teaching, the faculty is expected to spend

substantial amount of their time in pursuing research in their field of interest. Visits by the faculty to other

research institutes and their active participation in conferences, workshops and symposia is strongly

encouraged. In addition to the permanent and long-term visiting faculty members, NISER invites renowned

scientists from other institutions for a period of a semester or more for participating in research and teaching

activities. This book gives you a profile of all the faculty members at NISER.

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School of Biological Sciences

School of Chemical Sciences

School of Mathematical Sciences

School of Physical Sciences

Humanities & Social Sciences

School ofBiological Sciences



Palok Aich Kishore CS. PanigrahiAssociate Professor

Email: [email protected]

Reader (F)


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1986 – 1988 M.Sc. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

1988 – 1989 Post M.Sc. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, India

1989 – 1994 Ph.D. SINP, Kolkata, India

1994 – 1997 Post Doc Stockholm University & Karolinska Institute, Sweden

1997 – 2000 Post Doc University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

1986 - 1989 B.Sc. Jyoti Vihar, Orissa, India.

1989 – 1992 M.Sc. Jyoti Vihar, Orissa, India

1993 – 1998 Ph.D. TIFR, Mumbai, India

1998 – 1999 Premier Asst. LPC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

1999 – 2000 Project Leader Albert Ludwig University (ALU), Freiburg, Germany

2000 – 2006 Post Doc ALU, Freiburg, Germany.

2006 – 2009 Post Doc & Lab. Manager Max-Plank Institute, köln, Germany

§ Ramalingaswamy Fellowship, India

§ Innovation Award, Canada

§ FEBS Young Scientist

§ Mucosal Immunity

§ Stress and disease correlation

§ nano-immune therapy

§ Young researcher award from Third World Academy of Sciences and UNESCO, 1996.

§ Swiss National Foundation fellowship 1999, Switzerland

§ Supported out of DFG, EC, Humbold Foundation and Max-Planck Society Fellowships, Germany. 2000-2009.

§ Plant developmental biology and Signaling systems in plants.

§ Light Signaling, flowering time control and circadian rhythm in plants,

§ Producing bioactive compounds/proteins using moss, Physcomitrella as a model system.

§ Exploring the flora and fauna of Chilika and evaluating their immune-modulatory role.

1. Alison Thompson, Elaine Van Moorlehem and P. Aich*. Probiotic-Induced Priming of Innate Immunity to Protect Against

Rotaviral Infection. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2010, 2 (2), 90

2. P.Aich*, L. A. Babiuk, A. Potter, P. Griebel Biomarkers for Prediction of Bovine Respiratory Disease Outcome. Omics; A journal of

Integrative Biology, 2009, 13 (3), 1-11

3. C. D. Fjell, H. Jenssen, P. Fries, P. Aich, P. Griebel, K. Hilpert, R. E. W. Hancock, and A. Cherkasov (2008) Identification of novel host

defense peptides and the absence of alpha-defensins in the bovine genome. Proteins, 2008, 73 (2), 420-30

4. A. Rakitin, P.Aich, C. Papadopoulos, Y. Kobzar, A.S. Vedeneev, J.S. Lee & J.M. Xu, Metallic Conduction Through Engineered DNA:

DNA Nanoelectronic Building Blocks. Physical Review Letters 2001, 86(16), 3670-3673+ +5. P. Aich, T. J. Thomas and J. S. Lee, The role of polyamines, Na and K in the formation of triple helices between purine

oligonucleotides and the promoter region of the human c-src proto-oncogene. Nucleic Acids Research 2000, 28 (12), 2307-2310

1. Kishore CS. Panigrahi, M. Panigrahi, M. Stackelberg, R. Reski and MM. Johri. Auxin-binding proteins without KDEL sequence

in the moss Funaria hygrometrica. Plant Cell Rep., 2009, Oct 2. PMID: 19798504

2. F. Fornara, Kishore CS Panigrahi, L. Gissot, N. Sauerbrunn, M. Rühl and G. Coupland. Arabidopsis DOF transcription factors act

redundantly to reduce CONSTANS expression and are essential for a photoperiodic flowering response. Developmental Cell.

2009, 17(1), 75-86.

3. R. Budhiraja, R. Hermkes, S. Müller, Kishore CS Panigrahi, J. Schmidt, T. Colby, G. Coupland and A. Bachmair.: Substrates Related

to Chromatin and to RNA-Dependent Processes … Differ in a Conserved Residue with Influence on De-Sumoylation. Plant

Physiology, USA 2009, 149 (3), 1529-40.

4. S. Jang, V. Marchal, Kishore CS. Panigrahi, S. Wenkel, W. Soppe, X.-W. Deng, F. Valverde and G. Coupland. Arabidopsis COP1

shapes the temporal pattern of CO … photoperiodic flowering response. EMBO J. 2008, 27(8), 1277-88.

5. D. Bauer, A. Viczian, S. Kircher, T. Nobis, R. Nitschke, T. Kunkel, Kishore CS. Panigrahi, E. Adam, E. Fejes, E. Schafer, F. Nagy.

Constitutive photomorphogenesis 1 and multiple … 3, a transcription factor required for light signaling in Arabidopsis. The

Plant Cell, 2004, 16(6), 433-45.

Dr. Palok Aich Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009* Corresponding Author

is currently holding the position of Dr. Kishore CS. Panigrahi Reader (F), NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009is currently holding the position of

Abdur Rahaman Asima BhattacharyyaAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor

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1987 – 1992 B.Sc. B.C.K.V.V, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India

1993 – 1995 M.Sc. Assam Agriculture University, Jorhat, India

1995 – 2002 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2002 – 2003 Vis Fellow Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2003 – 2005 Post Doc McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2005 – 2009 Post Doc University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2009 – 2009 Post Doc Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

1996 B.Sc. Calcutta University, India

1998 M.Sc. Calcutta University, India

2000 – 2005 Ph.D. Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

2005 – 2010 Res. Assoc. University of Virginia, USA

§ Role of Dynamin Proteins in Nuclear expansion of Tetrahymena.

§ Cell Cycle Control of Dynamin Function.

§ Cell Cycle Regulation of Nuclear Envelope Expansion in Tetrahymena.

§ Molecular Characterization of Nuclear Lamina in Tetrahymena.

§ Sir Nil Ratan Sircar Prize from Bose Institute for outstanding research work, 2002

§ 1st place award for a poster at Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, 2006

§ Poster of Distinction by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) at Digestive Diseases Week, San Diego, 2008

§ Host-pathogen interaction

§ Cell signalling events, Inflammation and cancer

§ Oxidative stress, Gene regulation by hypoxia, Apoptosis

1. A. Rahaman, W. Miao, and AP. Turkewitz. Independent transport and sorting of functionally distinct protein families in

Tetrahymena dense core secretory granules. Eukaryotic Cell. 2009, 8, 1575-83.

2. **A. Rahaman, NC. Elde, and AP. Turkewitz. A dynamin-related protein required for nuclear remodeling in Tetrahymena.

Current Biology. 2008, 18, 1227-33

3. A. Rahaman, N. Srinivasan, N. Shamala, and MS. Shaila. Phosphoprotein of rinderpest virus forms a tetramer through coiled

coil region important for biological function: A structural insight. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2004, 279, 23606-14.

4. A. Rahaman, N. Srinivasan, N. Shamala, and MS. Shaila. The fusion core complex of the peste des petits ruminants virus is a

six-helix bundle assembly. Biochemistry. 2003, 42, 922-931.

1. A. Bhattacharyya, S. Pathak, S. Datta, S. Chattopadhyay, J. Basu, M. Kundu. Mitogen-activated protein kinases and nuclear

factor-kappaB regulate Helicobacter pylori-mediated interleukin-8 release from macrophages. Biochem J. 2002, 368, 121-129.

2. A. Bhattacharyya, S. Pathak, M. Kundu, J. Basu. Mitogen-activated protein kinases regulate Mycobacterium avium-induced

tumor necrosis factor-alpha release from macrophages. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2002, 34, 73-80.

3. A. Bhattacharyya, S. Pathak, C. Basak, S. Law, M. Kundu, J. Basu. Execution of macrophage apoptosis by Mycobacterium avium

through apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1/p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling and caspase 8 activation. J. Biol

Chem. 2003, 278, 26517-525.

4. A. Bhattacharyya, R. Chattopadhyay, JV. Cross, S. Mitra, PB. Ernst, KK. Bhakat and SE. Crowe. Acetylation of

Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease-1 Regulates Helicobacter pylori-Mediated Gastric Epithelial Cell Apoptosis.

Gastroenterology. 2009, 136, 2258-2269.

A. Bhattacharyya, R. Chattopadhyay, EH. Hall, ST. Mebrahtu, PB. Ernst, SE. Crowe. Mechanism of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-

mediated Mcl1 regulation in Helicobacter pylori-infected human gastric epithelium. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver

Physiol. 2010, 299, G1177-86.

Dr. Abdur Rahaman Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of **Considered one of the major discoveries in Tetrahymena: D.L. Chalker Current Biology, 2008, 18, R923-925

Dr. Asima Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of

Chandan Goswami Debasmita P. AloneAssistant Professor


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1991 – 1995 B.Sc. Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswa Vidyalaya, WB, India

1996 – 1998 M.Sc. Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India

1998 – 2002 Res Fellow NCBS, Bangalore, India

2002 – 2002 Res Fellow Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

2002 – 2005 Ph.D. Freie University of Berlin, Germany

2006 – 2009 Post Doc Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

1991 – 1994 B.Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

1994 – 1996 M.Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

1996 – 1997 B.Ed. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

1997 – 2002 Ph.D. Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India

2003 – 2007 Post Doc National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2007 – 2008 Res. Fellow National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

§ Cell biology

§ Cytoskeleton

§ Ion channels

§ Neurobiology

§ Cancer

§ Pain

§ “Summa cum laude” (Distinction) from Freie University of Berlin, Germany, 2006

§ “Best poster presentation award” from German society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) at fall meeting, 2007

Hamburg, Germany.

§ Gold Medal, M.Sc. Biochemistry, Nagpur University, 1996.

§ Best Poster Presentation, 68th Annual General Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India) and Symposium on

"Current Trends in Biology”, 1999.

§ Dr. S. R. V. Rao Prize for Best Platform Presentation, All India Cell Biology Conference, 2000.

§ NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (NIH-FARE), 2005.

§ Young Scientist Travel Award, NARA, Japan, 2005.

§ Molecular and Cellular targets of Anesthesia

§ Anesthesia induced neurobehavioral and developmental toxicity

§ Molecular genetics of G6PD deficiency in Orissa population

§ Role of small GTPases in development and disease

*1. P. Verma, A. Kumar and C. Goswami . TRPV4-mediated channelopathies. Channels, 2010, In Press.

*2. C. Goswami , J. Kuhn, P. Heppenstall, and T. Hucho. Importance of non-selective cation channel TRPV4 interaction with

cytoskeleton and their reciprocal regulations in cultured cells. PLoS ONE, 2010, In Press.

*3. C. Goswami , N. Rademacher, KH. Smalla, V. Kalscheuer, HH. Ropers, ED. Gundelfinger, T. Hucho. TRPV1 acts as a synaptic

protein and regulates vesicle recycling. J Cell Sci, 2010, 123, 2045-57.

*4. C. Goswami and T. Hucho. Invited review series: Novel aspects of the submembraneous microtubule cytoskeleton. FEBS

journal, 2008, 275, 4653 and 4684-4699. (Invited review plus editorial)

*5. Goswami C . and Hucho T. (2007) TRPV1 expression-dependent initiation and regulation of filopodial. J Neurochem. 103,

1319-33.

1. Debasmita P Alone, Jason C. Rodriguez, Cameron L. Noland and Howard A Nash. Impact of copy number variation on

Anesthesia in Drosophila melanogaster. Anesthesiology, 2009, 111, 15-24

2. Anand K Tiwari, Debasmita P Alone and Jagat K Roy. Rab11 is essential for fertility in Drosophila. Cell Biology International,

2008, 32, 1158-1168.

3. Debasmita P Alone, Robert L Scott and Howard A Nash. An Ion Channel that Influences Anesthesia Sensitivity: Designing a

Genetic Test for Assessing a Candidate Anesthetic Target. Int. Congress Series, 2005, 1283, 119-125.

4. Debasmita P Alone, Anand K Tiwari, Lolitika Mandal, Mingfa Li, Bernard M Mechler and Jagat K Roy. Rab11 is required during

Drosophila eye development. Int. J Dev Biol. 2005, 49, 873-879.

Dr. Chandan Goswami Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of * Corresponding Author

Dr. Debasmita P. Alone Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of

Harapriya Mohapatra Manjusha DixitAssistant Professor


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1994-1996 M.Sc. Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India

1999 M.Phil Univ. of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

1999-2003 Ph.D. Univ. of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

2005-2008 Post Doc Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

1994 – 1997 B.Sc. Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India

1998 – 2000 M.Sc. Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India

2002 – 2005 Ph.D. SGPGI of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

2006 – 2007 Post Doc Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC,

2007 – 2009 Post Doc Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Utah, USA

§ Transmission dynamics of microbial resistome.

§ Evolution of pathogenic bacteria from their non-pathogenic counterpart.

§ Antimicrobial peptides – resistance mechanism and their role in innate immunity modulation.

§ Angiogenesis regulation

§ Genetics of Hemoglobinopathies and Diabetes Mellitus

1. Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri, Harapriya Mohapatra, Rita R. Colwell and Durg V. Singh. Analysis of clonally related

environmental Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolated before 1992 from Varanasi, India reveals origin of SXT-ICEs belonging to O139

and O1 serogroups. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2010, 2 (1), 50–57.

2. Harapriya Mohapatra, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri, Rita Colwell and Durg V. Singh. Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-

O139 strains isolated before 1992 from Varanasi, India are multiple drug resistant, contain intSXT, dfr18 and aadA5 genes.

Environmental Microbiology, 2008, 10 (4), 866-873.

3. Durg V. Singh and Harapriya Mohapatra. Application of DNA based methods in typing Vibrio cholerae strains. Future

Microbiology, 2008, 3 (1), 87 - 96.

4. Harapriya Mohapatra and Rani Gupta. Concurrent sorption of Zn(II), Cu(II) and Co(II) by Oscillatoria angustissima as a function

of pH in binary and ternary metal solutions. Bioresource Technology, 2005, 96 (12), 1387 - 1398.

1. D. Gibbs, Z. Yang, R. Constantine, X. Ma, NJ. Camp, X. Yang, H. Chen, A. Jorgenson, V. Hau, A. Dewan, J. Zeng, J. Harmon, J.

Buehler, JM. Brand, J. Hoh, DJ. Cameron, M. Dixit, Z. Tong, K. Zhang. Further mapping of 10q26 supports strong association of

HTRA1 polymorphisms with age-related macular degeneration. Vision Res, 2008, 48(5), 685-689.

2. M. Dixit, E. Ansseau, A. Tassin, S. Winokur, R. Shi, H. Qian, S. Sauvage, C. Mattéotti, AM. van Acker, O. Leo, D. Figlewicz, M. Barro,

D. L.-Chenivesse, A. Belayew, F. Coppée, YW. Chen. DUX4, a candidate gene of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy,

encodes a transcriptional activator of PITX1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2007, 13;104(46),18157-62.

3. M. Dixit, G. Choudhuri, R. Saxena, B. Mittal. Association of apolipoprotein A1-C3 gene cluster polymorphisms with gallstone

disease. Can J Gastroenterol, 2007, 21(9), 569-75.

4. M. Dixit, G. Choudhuri, B. Mittal. Association of lipoprotein receptor, receptorassociated protein, and metabolizing enzyme

gene polymorphisms with gallstone disease: A case-control study. Hepatol Res, 2006, 36(1), 61-9.

5. M. Dixit, G. Choudhuri, LJ. Keshri, B. Mittal. Association of low density lipoprotein receptor related protein-associated protein

(LRPAP1) gene insertion/deletion polymorphism with gallstone disease. J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 2006, 21(5), 847-9.

Dr. Harapriya Mohapatra Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Dr. Manjusha Dixit Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of

Pankaj V. Alone Praful SingruAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1991 – 1994 B.Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

1994 - 1996 M.Sc. Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

1996 – 2001 Ph.D. National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

2001 – 2006 Post Doc National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

2006 – 2008 Project Scientist University of California, Davis, USA

1995 B.Sc.Nagpur University, Nagpur

1997 M.Sc.Nagpur University, Nagpur

1998 B.Ed.Nagpur University, Nagpur

1998-2004 Ph.D.Nagpur University, Nagpur

2004-2009 Postdoctoral fellowTufts Medical Center, Boston, USA

2009-2010 Research AssociateTufts Medical Center, Boston, USA

§ NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (NIH-FARE) for years 2005 and 2006.

§ Mechanism of start codon recognition & translation fidelity.

§ Translational control in molecular medicine and regulation of protein biosynthesis.

§ Architecture of translation apparatus, molecular interactions and supra molecular assembly of translation initiation

complex.

§ Neurobiology

§ Neuropharmacology of anxiety and depression

§ Chemical neuroanatomy of the brain of fish and mammals

§ Neural regulation of feeding, stress and reproduction

1. P. V. Alone, C. Cao and TE. Dever. Translation initiation factor eIF2γ mutants alter start codon selection independent of Met-MettRNA binding. Mol Cell Biol. 2008, 28(22), 6877-88.i

2. P. V. Alone and LC. Garg. Secretory and GM1 receptor binding role of N-Terminal end of LTB in Vibrio Cholerae. Biochem Biophy

Res Comm. 2008, 376(4), 770-4.

3. P. V. Alone, G. Malik, A. Krishnan and LC. Garg. Deletion mutations in N-terminal α1 helix render heat labile enterotoxin B

subunit susceptible to degradation. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA). 2007, 104(41), 16056-61

4. P. V. Alone and TE. Dever. Direct binding of translation initiation factor eIF2γ -Gdomain to its GTPase-activating and GDP-GTP

exchange factors eIF5 and eIF2Bε. J Biol Chem. 2006, 281(18), 12636-44.

5. A. Roll-Mecak, P. V. Alone, C. Cao, TE. Dever and SK. Burley. X-ray structure of translation initiation factor eIF2γ: implications for

tRNA and eIF2α binding, J Biol Chem. 2004, 279(11), 10634-42.

1. PS Singru, C Fekete, RM Lechan. Neuroanatomical evidence for participation of the hypothalamic dorsomedial nucleus (DMN)

in the regulation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone. Brain

Research, 2005, 1064, 42-51.

2. PS Singru, E Sánchez, C Fekete, RM Lechan. Importance of melanocortin signaling system in refeeding-induced neuronal

activation and satiety. Endocrinology, 2007, 148, 638-646.

3. PS Singru, M Mazumdar, AJ Sakharkar, RM Lechan, L Thim, J Clausen, N Subhedar. Immunohistochemical localization of

cocaine-and amphetamine- regulated transcript peptide in the brain of the catfish, Clarias batrachus (Linn). Journal of

Comparative Neurology, 2007, 502, 215-235.

4. PS Singru, E Sánchez, R Acharya, C Fekete, RM Lechan. Mitogen-activated protein kinase contributes to lipopolysaccharide-

induced activation of corticotropin-releasing hormone synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.

Endocrinology, 2008, 149, 2283-2292.

5. SK Maji, MH Perrin, MR Sawaya, S Jessberger, K Vadodaria, RA Rissman, PS Singru, KPR Nilsson, R Simon, D Schubert, D

Eisenberg, J Rivier, P Sawchenko, W Vale, R Riek. Functional amyloids as natural storage of peptide hormones in pituitary

secretory granules. Science, 2009, 325, 328-332.

Dr. Pankaj V. Alone Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of Dr. Praful Singru Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of


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1992 – 1995 B. Sc. University of Calcutta, India

1995 – 1997 M. Sc. University of Calcutta, India

1997 – 2003 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India

2003 – 2006 Post Doc University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Medicine, USA

2006 – 2008 Post Doc University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Immunology, USA

1996 – 2000 B. Pharm Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, India

2000 – 2002 M. Tech CBT, Anna University, Chennai, India

2002 – 2006 Ph.D. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

2006 – 2006 Post Doc German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

§ “Sudev Bhusan Ghosh Young Scientist” awarded by The Zoological society, Kolkata, India, 2002.

§ “Rapid grant for young investigators” awarded by DBT, Ministry of Science & Technology, India, 2010

§ Immunology: Regulatory T cell (Treg); Toll Like Receptor (TLR), Infection Immunity, Tumor Immunity, Immune Privilege

§ 2009 - Mike Price Fellowship award, European Association for Cancer research (EACR).

§ 2001 - BTIS-DBT Summer Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), INDIA.

§ Interdisciplinary approaches towards rational drug design.

§ Pharmacogenomics of traditional medicine and natural products.

1. Cone RE, Chattopadhyay S, Sharafieh R, Lemire Y and O' Rourke J. The suppression of hypersensitivity by ocular–induced CD8+

T cells requires compatibility in the Qa-1 haplotype. Immunol Cell Biol., 2009, 87, 241-248.

2. Chattopadhyay S, O'Rourke J and Cone RE. Implication for the CD94/NKG2A-Qa-1 System in the Generation and Function of

Ocular-induced Splenic CD8+ Regulatory T cells. Int Immunol., 2008, 20, 509-516.

3. Chattopadhyay S, Mehrotra S, Chhabra A, Hegde U, Mukherji B and Chakraborty NG. Effect of CD4+CD25+ and CD4+CD25- T

Regulatory Cells on the Generation of Cytolytic T Cell Response to a Self but Human Tumor-Associated Epitope In Vitro. J.

Immunol., 2006, 176, 984- 990.

4. Chattopadhyay S, Chakraborty NG, Mukherji B. Regulatory T cells and tumor immunity. Cancer Immunol Immunother., 2005,

54, 1153- 1161.

5. Chattopadhyay S. and Chakraborty N. G. Continuous Presence of TH1 Conditions is Necessary for Longer Lasting Tumor-

specific CTL Activity in Stimulation Cultures with PBL. Hum Immunol., 2005, 66, 884- 891

1. V.B. Konkimalla, T. Efferth Inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor-overexpressing cancer cells by camptothecin, 20-

(N,N-diethyl) glycinate. Biochemical Pharmacology, 2010, Jul 1; 80(1):39-49.

2. V.B. Konkimalla, M. Blunder, R. Bauer, T. Efferth. Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase by bis(helenalinyl)glutarate in

RAW264.7 macrophages. Biochemical Pharmacolology, 2010, Jun 1; 79(11):1573-80.

3. V.B. Konkimalla, T. Efferth. Inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor over-expressing cancer cells by the aphorphine-type

isoquinoline alkaloid, dicentrine. Biochemical Pharmacology, 2009, 79(8), 1092-9.

4. V.B. Konkimalla, J. A. McCubrey and T. Efferth. The role of downstream signaling pathways of the epidermal growth factor

receptor for artesunate's activity in cancer cells. Current Cancer Drug Targets, 2009, 9(1), 72-80.

5. V.B. Konkimalla, M. Blunder, B. Korn, S. A. Soomro, H. Jansen, W. Chang, G. H. Posner, R. Bauer and T. Efferth. Effect of

artemisinins and other endoperoxides on nitric oxide-related signalling pathway in RAW 264.7 mouse macrophage cells.

Nitric Oxide 2008, 19, 184-191.

Dr. Subhasis Chattopadhyay Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of Dr. Venkata Sai Badireenath Konkimalla Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010is currently holding the position of

Assistant Professor


Subhasis Chattopadhyay Venkata Sai Badireenath KonkimallaAssistant Professor


Rabindranath Nayak Shyamasree BasuVisiting Professor


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1966 M.Sc. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India

1974 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

1998 B. Sc. Presidency College, Calcutta University, India

2000 M. Sc. Calcutta University, West Bengal, India

2005 Ph.D. IICB, Jadavpur University, India

§ Utkal University Gold Medal (1966)

§ Srinivasaya Prize for Best Thesis, IISc (1974)

§ Lady Tata Senior Scholar

§ Senior immunologist award, Immunological Society of India (2004)

§ Astra Endowment Chair, IISc (2003 – 2006)

§ Immunological Memory

§ Rational Vaccine Design

§ Understanding the biology, Glycomics, and immunology of disease with special reference to childhood acute lymphoblastic

leukemia. In a broader sense, bio-medical research touching the human lives is the object of interest.

1. J. Vani, J. Chatterjee, MS. Shaila, R. Nayak and NR. Chandra. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov /entrez/utils

/fref.fcgi?PrId=3048&itool=Abstract-def&uid=19157554&db=pubmed&url=http:/ /linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/

S0161-5890(08)00763-3Structural basis for the function of anti-idiotypic antibody in immune memory. Mol Immunol, 2009,

46, 1250-55.

2. RK. Behera, and R. Nayak. Expression Profiling of Nucleotide Metabolism-Related Genes in Human Breast Cancer Cells After

Treatment with 5-Fluorouracil. Cancer Investigation, 2009, 42, 587-593.

3. MG. Chaitra, MS. Shaila, and R. Nayak, Detection of interferon gamma-secreting CD8+ T lymphocytes in humans specific for

three PE/PPE proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. MicrobesInfection, 2008, 10, 858-67.

4. MG. Chaitra, MS. Shaila, NR. Chandra and R. Nayak. HLA-A*0201-restricted cytotoxic T-cell epitopes in three PE/PPE family

proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Scand J Immunol, 2008, 67, 411-7.

5. MG. Chaitra, MS. Shaila and R. Nayak. Characterization of T-cell immunogenicity of two PE/PPE proteins of Mycobacterium

tuberculosis. J. Med. Microbiol, 2008, 57, 1079-86.

6. MG. Chaitra, MS. Shaila and R. Nayak. Characterization of T-cell immunogenicity of two PE/PPE proteins of Mycobacterium

tuberculosis. J. Med. Microbiol, 2008, 57, 1079-86.

1. W. Ansar, S. Mukhopadhyay, SK. Habib, S. Basu, B. Saha, AK. Sen, CN. Mandal, C. Mandal. Disease-associated glycosylated

molecular variants … in tuberculosis and Indian visceral leishmaniasis. Glycoconj J., 2009, 26(9), 1151-69.

2. S. Ghosh, S. Bandyopadhyay, K. Mukherjee, A. Mallick, S. Pal, C. Mandal, DK. Bhattacharya, C. Mandal. O-acetylation of sialic

acids … childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Glycoconj J., 2007, 24(1), 17-24.

3. S. Ghosh, S. Bandyopadhyay, S. Pal, D. Sinha, A. Mallick, M. Chatterjee, C. Mandal C and C. Mandal. 9-O-acetylated

sialoglycoproteins: novel molecules in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) (F.N.A.Sc.) National Academy Science

Letters,2006, 29(1-2), 17-24.

4. S. Ghosh, S. Bandyopadhyay, A. Mallick, S. Pal, R. Vlasak, DK. Bhattacharya, C. Mandal. Interferon gamma promotes … 9-O-

acetylated sialoglycoconjugates in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. J Cell Biochem., 2005, 95(1), 206-16.

5. S. Ghosh, S. Bandyopadhyay, S. Pal, B. Das, DK. Bhattacharya, C. Mandal. Increased interferon gamma production … disease-

specific 9-O-acetylated sialoglycoconjugates in children suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Br J Haematol., 2005,

128(1), 35-41.

Dr. Rabindranath Nayak Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Shyamasree Basu Scientific Officer (E), NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of


School ofChemical Sciences

T. K. Chandrashekar A. SrinivasanSr. Professor and Director

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1976 B. Sc.University of Mysore, India

1978 M. Sc. University of Mysore, India

1978 – 1982 Ph.D.Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

1982 – 1984 Post DocMassachusetts, Boston, USA

1984 – 1986 Research AssociateMichigan State, East Lansing, USA

1988 – 1991 B. Sc. Madurai Kamarajar University, Madurai, India

1991 – 1993 M. Sc. Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India

1993 – 1995 B. Ed Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India

1995 – 2000 Ph.D Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2000 – 2002 Post Doc Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

2002 – 2005 Post Doc Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

§ Fellow of all the three academy of Sciences

§ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize – 2001

§ J. C. Bose National Fellowship – 2006

§ Fellow of Third World Academy of Science, Italy – 2008

Chemistry of tetrapyrrole pigments and related macrocycles for their use as:

§ Photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy and Non-liner optical materials

§ Model compounds for photosynthetic intermediates

§ Molecular receptors for neutral, cationic and anionic substrates

§ Catalysts for organic conversions

§ Supramolecular systems for molecular devices

Chemistry of tetrapyrrole pigments and related macrocycles for their use as:

§ Photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy

§ Supramolecular Chemistry

§ Pyrrole based Sensor materials

1. Fused core-modified meso-aryl Expanded Porphyrins: T.K Chandrashekar, * V. Prabhuraja, S. Gokulnath, R. Sabarinathan and A.

Srinivasan, Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 5915-5917..

2. S. Gokulnath and T. K. Chandrashekar. Modified 26 and 28π hexaphyrins with five Meso-links; Optical, redox & structural

properties. Chem. Asian J., 2009, 4, 861-869.

3. S. Gokulnath and T. K. Chandrashekar. One Pot Synthesis of Core-modified Meso-Aryl Calix[5]phyrins and N-

Fused[24]Pentaphyrins. Org. Lett., 2008, 10(4), 637-640.

4. R. Misra and T. K. Chandrashekar. Structural Diversity in Expanded Porphyrins. Acc. Chem. Res., 2007, 41, 265-279.

5. J. Sankar, H. Rath, V. Prabhuraja, S. Gokulnath, T. K. Chandrashekar, C. S. Purohit and S. Verma. meso-meso Linked Core-

modified Corrole-Dimers: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties. Chemistry-A European Journal, 2007, 13, 105-114.

1. K. S. Anju, S. Ramakrishnan, Ajesh P. Thomas, E. Suresh and A. Srinivasan.* 9,10,19,20-Tetraarylporphycenes. Org. Lett., 2008,

10, 5545-5548.

2. S. Ramakrishnan and A. Srinivasan.* ansa-Metallocene based cyclic[2]pyrroles. Org. Lett., 2007, 9, 4769-4772.

3. I. Gupta, A. Srinivasan, T. Morimoto, M. Toganoh and H. Furuta.* N-Confused and N-Fused meso-Aryl Sapphyrins. Angew.

Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 4563-4567.

4. A. Srinivasan and H. Furuta.* The Confusion Approach in Porphyrinoid Chemistry: Acc. Chem. Res., 2005, 38, 10-20.

5. A. Srinivasan, M. Toganoh, T. Niino, A. Osuka and H. Furuta.* Synthesis of N-Confused Tetraphenylporphyrin Rhodium

Complexes Having Versatile Metal Oxidation States: Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 11305-11313.

Dr. T. K. Chandrashekar Director, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2008is currently holding the position of Dr. A. Srinivasan Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of

Arindam Ghosh Bhargava B. L.Assistant Professor

E-mail : [email protected]

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1998 B.Sc. Burdwan University, India

2001 MS Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2001 – 2006 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2006 – 2010 Post Doctoral Associate State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

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§ Life member, National Magnetic Resonance Society of India

§ Methodological development of multi dimensional NMR

§ Pulse programme designing and analysis

§ Digital signal processing techniques in NMR

§ Quantum Information Processing (QIP) using NMR

§ ??

1 Arindam Ghosh, Yibing Wu, Yunfen He and Thomas Szypersky, Theory of Mirrored Time Domain Sampling for NMR

Spectroscopy, Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2011.08.037)

2. Yibing Wu, Arindam Ghosh and Thomas Szyperski, Clean absorption mode NMR data acquision, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009,

48, 1479

Featured in “PSI Nature Structural Genomics Knowledgebase,2009”

(http://kb.psi-structuralgenomics.org/update/2009/04/library.html)

3. David A. Snyder, Arindam Ghosh, Fengli Zhang, Thomas Szyperski and Rafael Bruschweiler, Z-matrix formalism for quantitative

noise assessment of covariance nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, Journal of Chemical Physics. 2008, 129, 104511

4. Arindam Ghosh and Anil Kumar, Experimental Measurement of Mixed State Geometric Phase by Quantum Interferometry using

NMR, Physics Letters A, 2006, 349, 27

5. Arindam Ghosh and Anil Kumar, Relaxation of pseudo-pure states: the role of cross-correlations, Journal of Magnetic

Resonance. 2005, 173, 125

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Dr. Arindam Ghosh is currently holding the position of Assistant ProfessorNISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of

Chandra Shekhar Purohit Chidambaram GunanathanAssistant Professor


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1997 – 2000 B. Sc. Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India.

2000 – 2002 M. Sc. Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India.

2003 – 2008 Ph. D Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

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§ Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship, Germany, 2008 – 2009.

§ Bio-organic chemistry§ ??

1. Chandra Shekhar Purohit, Sandeep Verma. A luminescent silver-adenine metallamacrocyclic quartet. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006,

128, 400-401.

2. Chandra Shekhar Purohit, M. Parvez, Sandeep Verma. Kinetic characterization of a bioinspired, heterogeneously active

macromolecular catalyst for phenol oxidation and coupling reactions. Appl. Catal. A: General, 2007, 316,100-106.

3. Chandra Shekhar Purohit, Sandeep Verma. Patterned Deposition of a Mixed-Coordination Adenine-Silver Helicate,Containing

a π-Stacked Metallacycle, on a Graphite Surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3488-3489.

4. Chandra Shekhar Purohit, Ashutosh Kumar Mishra, Sandeep Verma. Four stranded coordination helices containing silver-

adenine (purine) metallaquartets. Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 8493-8495.

5. Damian Ackermann, Thorsten L. Schmidt, Jeffrey S. Hannam, Chandra S.Purohit, Alexander Heckel and Michael Famulok. A

double-stranded DNA rotaxane. Nat. Nanotech. 2010, 5,436-442

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Dr. Chandra Shekhar Purohit is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubneswar from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of

Jogendra Nath Behera Moloy SarkarAssistant Professor


Assistant professor



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1994 B.Sc. Utkal University, Orissa, India

1996 M.Sc. Utkal University, Orissa, India

1997 B.Ed. Utkal University, Orissa, India

2002-2007 PhD. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2007-2009 Post Doc University of California, Berkeley, USA

2009-2010 Postdoc. Associate State University of New York, Albany, USA

2001 M.Sc University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India

2007 Ph.D University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

2007 - 2008 RA University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

§ JSPS Fellowship Japan, 2005-2006

§ Porous Magnetic Materials

§ Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials

§ Heterometallic Oxides from Single Source Precursors

§ Heterogeneous Catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks.

§ Studies on solvation dynamics in room-temperature ionic liquids.

§ Studies on spectroscopic and microscopic properties of organic nanoparticles grown in ionic liquid microemulsions.

§ Fluorescent sensors.

1. C. M. Nagaraja, J. N. Behera, T. K. Maji, S. K. Pati and C. N. R. Rao. Organically-templated Kagome compounds containing two

transition metal ions. Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 6947-6949

2. J. N. Behera, D. M. D'Alessandro, N. Soheilnia and J. R. Long. Synthesis and characterization of ruthenium and iron-ruthenium

Prussian blue analogues. Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 1922-1926.

2+3. J. N. Behera, A. Sundaresan, S. K. Pati and C. N. R. Rao. Magnetic properties of Ni Kagome system. Chem. Phys. Chem. 2007, 8,

217-219 (featured cover article).

2+ 4. J. N. Behera and C. N. R. Rao. A Ni (S = 1) Kagome compound templated by 1,4-diazacubane. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128,

9334-9335.

2+5. J. N. Behera and C. N. R. Rao. Synthesis and magnetic properties of an amine-templated Fe (S = 2) sulfate with a distorted

Kagome structure. Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 9475-9479.

1. R. K. Kanaparthi, M. Sarkar and A. Samanta. Probing the Aggregated State of 4-(9-Anthryl)-N,N-dimethylaniline by UV−Vis

Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Crystallography. J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, 15189-15195.

2. A. Paul, M. Sarkar, D. C. Khara, T. Kamijo, A. Yamaguchi, N. teramae and A. Samanta. Solvation dynamics of a surfactant probe in

mesostructured silica-surfactant nanocomposites. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2009, 469, 71-75.

3. M. Sarkar, and A. Samanta. Theoretical study of the mechanism of interaction of a flavone derivative with halides: basis set

dependence of the results. J. Mol. Str. Theochem 2008, 863, 111-116.

4. M. Sarkar, R. K. Kanaparthi, B. Bhattacharya, and A. Samanta. Polarity dependence of the photophysical behaviour of electron

donor-acceptor flavone derivatives: change in the nature of the emitting state. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2008, 112, 3302-3310.

5. M. Sarkar and Anunay Samanta. Photophysical and density functional studies of the interaction of a flavone derivative with the

halides. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 7027-7033.

Dr. Jogendra Nath Behera is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. Moloy Sarkar is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009

Prasenjit Mal S. PeruncheralathanAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1996 B. Sc. University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India

1999 M. Sc. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

2005 Ph. D Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2006-2007 Post Doc University of Siegen, Germany

2008-2009 Post Doc University of Cambridge, UK

1992 – 1995 B. Sc. Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

1995 – 1997 M. Sc. Madras University, Chennai, India

1998 – 2004 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2005 – 2006 RA Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2006 – 2009 Post doc Institute für Organische Chemie, Universität Leipzig (Germany)

§ Marie Curie Fellowship – 2008

§ Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship – 2006

§ Organic Synthesis

§ Electro-Active & Photo-Active Materials

§ Luminescence based Metal ion Sensors

§ Alexander von Humboldt fellowship Universität Leipzig Germany, 2007 – 2008.

§ Asymmetric Organocatalysis

§ Organometallic Catalysis

§ Synthesis of Small Molecules with Biological Interest

1. M. Schmittel, P. Mal, Rios, A. de los. Multiport logic operations triggered by protonation–a trisphenanthroline as a 3-input

AND–NOR–OR circuit Chem. Commun., 2010 DOI: 10.1039/b920959j

2. P. Mal, J. R. Nitschke, Sequential self-assembly of iron Structures in water. Chem. Commun. 2010 DOI: 10.1039/b920745g

3. P. Mal, B. Breiner, K. Rissanen, J. R. Nitschke, White Phosphorus is Air-Stable within a Self-Assembled Tetrahedral Capsule.

Science, 2009, 324, 1697–1699.

4. P. Mal, D. Schultz, K. Beyeh, K. Rissanen, J. R. Nitschke. An Unlockable-Relockable Iron Cage by Subcomponent Self-Assembly,

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 8297–8301.

5. M. Schmittel, B. He, P. Mal.

s Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 2513–2516.

Supramolecular Multicomponent Self-Assembly of Shape-Adaptive Nanoprisms: Wrapping up C 60

with Three Porphyrin Unit

1. S. Peruncheralathan, H. Teller, C. Schneider. Titanium-BINOLate-Catalyzed Aminolysis of meso-Aziridines – a Highly

Enantioselective and Direct Access to 1,2-Diamines. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 4849-4853.

2. S. Kumar, S. Peruncheralathan, H. Ila, H. Junjappa. A Novel Anionic Domino Process for the Synthesis of o-Cyanoaryl

Methylthio/Alkyl/Aryl/ Heteroaryl Acetylenes. Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 965-968.

3. S. Peruncheralathan, M. Henze, C. Schneider, Indium (III) Chloride-Catalyzed Thiolysis of meso-Aziridines. Tetrahedron Lett.

2007, 48, 6743-6746.

4. A. K. Yadav, S. Peruncheralathan, H. Ila, H. Junjappa. Domino Carbocationic Rearrangement of α-

[Bis(methylthio)methylene]alkyl-2-(3/2-indolyl) Cyclopropyl Ketones. J .Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 1388-1394.

5. S. Peruncheralathan, T. A. Khan, H. Ila, H. Junjappa. Regioselective Synthesis of 1-Aryl-3,4-Substituted/annulated-5-

(methylthio)pyrazoles and 1-Aryl-3-(methylthio)-4,5-Substituted/ Annulated Pyrazoles. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 10030-10035.

Dr. Prasenjit Mal is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. S. Peruncheralathan is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010

Sanjib Kar Sharanappa NembennaAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1998 B.Sc. University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India

2000 M.Sc. University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India

2005 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

2006 - 2008 Post Doc IMCE, Kyushu University, Japan

1993-1996 B.Sc. Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka, India

1997-1999 M.Sc. Karnatak University Dharwad, Karnataka, India

2004-2007 Ph.D. Goettingen University, Germany

2008-2010 Post Doc Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

§ Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

§ Metalloporphyrin Chemistry

§ Model compounds for artificial photosynthesis

§ Catalysts for organic conversions

§ Synthetic Inorganic and Main Group Organometallic Chemistry

§ Synthesis and reactivity of low oxidation state main group metal compounds

§ Synthesis of main group metal hydroxides

1. V.K. Yadav, S. Kar, L. Mishra. Novel mononuclear and binuclear Ru(II) bipyridyl complexes of Schiff bases bearing 1,2,4-triazole:

Synthesis, characterization and electrochemistry. Polyhedron, 2009, 28, 121.

2. S. Kar, B. Sarkar, S. Ghumaan, M. Leboschka, J. Fiedler, W. Kaim, G. K. Lahiri. Ancillary ligand determination of the spin location in

both oxidised ... bis-bidentate 1, 4-bis(2-phenolato)-1,4-diazabutadiene. Dalton Trans., 2007, 1934

3. S. Ghumaan, S. Kar, S. M. Mobin, V. G. Puranik, G. K. Lahiri, 2,4,6-Tris(2-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine (tptz)-Derived II + III + II +[Ru (tptz)(acac)(CH CN)] and Mixed-Valent [(acac) Ru {( -tptz-H )-}Ru (acac)(CH CN)] , Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 2413 3 2 3

4. S. Kar, B. Sarkar, S. Ghumaan, D. Janardanan, J. V. Slageren, J. Fiedler, V. G. Puranik, R. B. Sunoj, W. Kaim, G. K. Lahiri. 2, 25Dioxido1,4benzoquinonediimine (H L ), a ... Distributions in Complexes. Chem. Eur. J., 2005, 11, 4901 2

5. S. Kar, N. Chanda, S. M. Mobin, F. A. Urbanos, M. Niemeyer, V. G. Puranik, R. J. Aparicio, G. K.Lahiri. Unusual Monodentate

Binding Mode of ... Magnetic Aspects. Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 1571

1. S. J. Bonyhady, C. Jones, S. Nembenna, A. Stasch, A. J. Edwards and G. J. McIntyre. β-Diketiminate satabilized magnesium(I)

dimers and magnesium(II) hydride complexes: synthesis, characterization, adduct formation and reactivity studies. Chem. Eur.

J. 2010, 16, 938-955.

2. A dimeric magnesium (I) compound as a facile two-center/two-electron reductant. S. J. Bonyhady, S. P. Green, C. Jones, S.

Nembenna, and A. Stasch Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2973-2977.

3. S. P. Sarish, S. Nembenna, H. W. Roesky, H. Ott, A. Pal, D. Stalke, S. Dutta, and S. K. Pati. Soluble molecular dimers of CaO and SrO

stabilized by a Lewis acid. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8740-8742.

4. S. Nembenna, H. W. Roesky, S. Nagendran, A. Hofmeister, P-J. Wilbrandt, and M. Hahn. A well defined hydrocarbon-soluble

calcium monofluoride, [{LCaF(thf)} ]: the application of soluble calcium derivatives for surface coating. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2

2007, 46, 2512-2514.

6. S. Nembenna, H. W. Roesky, S. K. Mandal, R. B. Oswald, A. Pal, R. Herbst-Irmer, M. Noltemeyer, and H. Schmidt. Soluble

molecular compounds with the Mg–O–Al structural motif: a model approach for the fixation of organometallics on a MgO

surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13056-13057.

Dr. Sanjib Kar is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Sharanappa Nembenna is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER Bhubaneswar, India from 2010

Sudip Barman Upakarasamy LourderajAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1997 – 1999 M. Sc. University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India

2000 – 2006 Ph.D Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

2006 – 2009 Post Doc National Institute of Nanotechnology (NINT), University of Alberta, Canada.

1995 B. Sc Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

1998 M. Sc Bharathidasan University, India

1999 M. Phil Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

2004 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, ndia

2004 – 2008 Post Doc Texas Tech. University, Texas, USA.

§ Nanoscience and Nanomaterials,

§ Molecular Electronics

§ Materials Chemistry § Computational studies of the dynamics of chemical reactions

§ Molecules under mechanical stress

§ Development of methodology/algorithm and applications of ab initio chemical dynamic simulations

§ Ground and excited state electronic structure properties of molecules1. Sudip Barman, Fengjun Deng and Richard L. McCreery. Conducting Polymer Memory Devices Based on Dynamic Doping. J.

Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 11073-11081.

2. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Melting of an Anchored Bilayer: Phase Transitions in the Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Pervoskite

(CH NH )(CH (CH ) NH ) Pb I (n = 11, 13, 15, 17). J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113, 15698-15706.3 3 3 2 n 3 2 2 7

3. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Mixed Saturated -Unsaturated Fatty-acid Salt Assemblies: Solid Solutions of Zinc Stearate and

Oleate. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007 111, 5212-5217.

4. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Contrasting melting behavior of Zinc Stearate and Zinc Oleate. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 651-

654.

5. S. Barman and S. Vasudevan. Melting of Saturated Fatty Acid Zinc Soaps. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 22407-22414.

1. U. Lourderaj and W. L. Hase. Theoretical and Computational Studies of NonRRKM Unimolecular Dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. A,

2009, 113, 2236.

2. U. Lourderaj, Jason L. McAfee, and William L. Hase. Potential Energy Surface and Unimolecular Dynamics of Stretched n-

Butane. J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 129, 094701

3. J. Mikosch, S. Trippel, C. Eichhorn, R. Otto, U. Lourderaj, J. X. Zhang, W. L. Hase, M. Weidemüller and R. Wester. Imaging

Nucleophilic Substitution Dynamics. Science, 2008, 319, 183

4. U. Lourderaj, K. Song, T. L. Windus, Y. Zhuang, and W. L. Hase. Direct dynamics simulations using Hessianbased

predictorcorrector integration algorithm. J. Chem. Phys., 2007, 126, 044105

5. U. Lourderaj, K. Giri, and and N. Sathyamurthy. Ground and excited states of the monomer and dimer of certain carboxylic

acids. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2006, 110, 2709

Dr. Sudip Barman is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. U. Lourderaj is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009

Venkatasubbaiah Krishnan Mahendra K. Mahanti?? Visiting Professor



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?? 1973 Ph. D. Berhampur University, Berhampur, India

1973 – 1976 Post Doc Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

§ ??

§ Rev. Fr. L. M. Yeddanapalli Medal and Indian Chemical Society Prize, 1987

§

§ Kinetics of oxidation reactions of organic molecules

§ Kinetics of reduction of transition metal ions.

Physical Organic Chemistry

1 ??

1. G. C. Sarma and M. K. Mahanti, Kinetics of the quinolinium dichromate oxidation at saturated carbon-hydrogen bonds:

Oxidation of arylalkanes. Oxidation Commun., 2007, 30, 384 - 390.

2. I. Nongkynrih and M. K. Mahanti. Kinetics of the quinolinium dichromate oxidation of triols. Oxidation Commun., 2007, 30,

601 - 606.

3. S. Das, E. R. Rani and M. K. Mahanti. Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidative cleavage of ketones by quinolinium dichromate.

Kinetics and Catal., 2007, 48, 381 - 389.

4. H. Suante, G. S. Chaubey and M. K. Mahanti. Kinetics of oxidation of hetero cyclic compounds by quinolinium dichromate,

Oxidation Commun., 2008, 31, 841 - 852.

5. S. Das and M. K. Mahanti. A convenient route for the oxidative cleavage of cyclic and arylalkyl ketones using quinolinium

dichromate, Oxidation Commun., 2009, 32, 99 – 103.

Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of Dr. Mahendra K. Mahanti is currently holding the position of Visiting Prof. School of Chemical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2007

Nagendra K. Sharma Pradeep K. ChaudhuryVisiting Faculty


Visiting Faculty



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1994 – 1997 B. Sc. University of Delhi, Delhi, India

1997 – 1999 M. Sc. University of Delhi, Delhi, India

2000 – 2006 Ph.D. National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

2006 – 2009 Post Doc University of Utah, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

1978 B.Sc Patna University,Patna,India

1982 M.Sc Patna University,Patna,India

1990 Ph.D I.I.T Kanpur,India

§ Design, Chemical Synthesis and biological evaluation of Nucleic Acid & Peptide

§ Synthesis of Inhibitors, to study the DNA/Protein and protein/protein Interaction .

§ Mechanistic studies of Isoprenoids Enzymes and biosynthesis of natural products

in vitro

§ Resource person for the U.G.C refresher Courses (Chemistry) held at University of Goa and University of Pune respectively.

§ Conducted NET/SET training sessions held at the department of Chemistry, University of and also at different centres in

Maharashtra for nearly a decade.

§ Member of “Indian Association of Chemistry Teachers”(c/o Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,Mumbai).

§ Participated as a question paper setter and trainer for chemistry “Olympiad” since 2004.

Synthesis and characterization of biomimetic models of oxo-molybdenum and oxo-tungsten containing enzymes and to study

the kinetic aspects of their reactivity towards the enzyme substrates to understand the structure-function relationship of these

enzymes.

1. Sharma, N. K.*; and Ganesh, K. N. Base dependent pyrrolidine ring pucker in aep-PNA monomers: NMR and PSEUROT analysis.

Tetrahedron 2010, 10.1016/j.tet.2010.09.082. (In Press).

2. Sharma, N. K.*; and Ganesh, K. N. Enhanced stability of G-Quadruplexes from conformationally constrained aep-PNA

backbone. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2010, DOI:10.1039/C0OB00528B. (In Press).

3. Sharma, N. K.; Pan, J. J. and Poulter, C. D. Type II Isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase: probing the mechanism with

alkyne/allene diphosphate substrate analogues. Biochemistry 2010, 49, 6228-6233.

+ 4. Sharma, N. K.; Ganesh, K. N. PNA C-C i-motif: superior stability of PNA TC tetraplexes compared to DNA TC tetraplexes at low 8 8

pH. Chem Commun 2005, 4330-4332.

5. Sharma, N. K.; Ganesh, K. N. Expanding the repertoire of pyrrolidyl PNA analogues for DNA/RNA hybridization selectivity:

aminoethylpyrrolidinone PNA (aepone-PNA). Chem. Commun. 2003, 2484-2485.

1. Pradeep K.Chaudhury, Prashant Dubey, Manav Saxsena and Sabyasachi Sarkar, Multiwalled carbon nanotube-polystyrene

composite modified Pt electrode as an electrochemical gas sensor, Advanced Sciences Letters, 2010 [In press]

2. K.Pal, P.K.Chaudhury and S.Sarkar, Structure of the Michaelis Complex and funtion of the catalytic centre in the reductive half

reaction of computational and synthetic models of sulfite oxidase, Chem.Asian J., 2007, 2, 956.

3. K.Pal, R.Maiti, P.K.Chaudhury and S.Sarkar, Synthesis, structure and reactions of a series of 1,2-dicyanoethylene dithiolate

coordinated dimeric Mo(V) Complexes, Inorg. Chim.Acta, 2007, 360, 2721.

4. P.K.Chaudhury, K.Nagarajan, P.Dubey and S.Sarkar, Symphoria: The success of modeling the active site function of

oxmolybdoenzymes, J.Inorg.Biochem., 2004, 98, 1667.

5. K.Nagarajan, H.K.Joshi, P.K.Chaudhury,K.Pal, J.A. Cooney, J.H.Enemark and S.Sarkar, Structural and functional analogue of the

active site of polysulfide reductase from Wolinella Succinogen, Inorg.Chem, 2004, 43, 4532.

Dr. Nagendra K. Sharma is currently holding the position of Visiting Faculty, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Pradeep K. Chaudhury Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Visiting Faculty,


School ofMathematicalSciences

Varadharajan Muruganandam Anil Kumar KarnAssociate Professor


??


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1979-1981 M.Sc (Mathematics) Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai.

1981-1987 Ph.D Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,

1987 -1987 Post Doctoral Fellow T.I.F.R, Mumbai.

1989-1990 Post Doctoral Fellow Universite de Poiters, France.

??

§ Harmonic analysis

§ Universite de Nancy, France.

§ Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie, (PARIS VI), Paris, France.

§ ??

1. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The Fourier algebra of a Hypergroup-I, Journal of Australian Mathematical Society, 2007, 82,

59-83.

2. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The Fourier algebra of a Hypergroup-II Spherical hypergroups, Mathematische Nachrichten,

2008, 281 (11), 1590-1603.

3. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The constants of Cowling and Haagerup, Journal of Lie Theory, 2008, 18, 627-644.

4. Varadharajan Muruganandam, The other side of harmonic analysis, Newsletter of Ramanujan Mathematical Society,

2008.

1 ??

Dr. Varadharajan Muruganandam is currently holding the position of Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of

Binod Kumar Sahoo Brundaban SahuAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1998 B.A. Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Orissa, India

2000 M.A. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

2004 M.Phil. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

2008 Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, India

1999 B. Sc. G. M College (Autonomous), Sambalpur, India

2001 M. Sc. Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, India

2002 – 2008 Ph. D. Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India

2008 – 2010 Post Doc University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

§ CSIR Fellowship, 2002

§ NBHM Research Award, 2000

§ Utkal University Gold Medal, 2000

§ Groups and Combinatorics

§ Incidence Geometries

§ Graph Theory

§ ISI - Bangalore, Ghent University, Belgium

§ National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Research Fellowship – 2001

Number Theory, more specifically:

§ Supercongruences

§ Modular Forms

§ Jacobi Forms

1. K. L. Patra and B. K. Sahoo, A non-abelian representation of the dual polar space DQ(2n,2), Innovations in Incidence Geometry,

2009, 9, 177-188.

2. B. K. Sahoo and N. S. N. Sastry, On the order of a non-abelian representation group of a slim dense near hexagon, Journal of

Algebraic Combinatorics, 2009, 29, 195-213.

3. B. K. Sahoo, New constructions of two slim dense near hexagons, Discrete Mathematics, 2008, 308, 2018-2024.

4. B. K. Sahoo and N. S. N. Sastry, A characterization of finite symplectic polar spaces of odd prime order, Journal of Combinatorial

Theory, Series A, 2007, 114, 52-64.

1. B. Ramakrishnan and Brundaban Sahu. Rankin's method and Jacobi forms of several variables. J. Aust. Math. Soc., 2010, 88,

131-143.

2. S. Gun, F. Luca, P. Rath, Brundaban Sahu and R. Thangadurai. Distribution of residues modulo p. Acta Arith. 2007, 129, 325-333.

3. B. Ramakrishnan and Brundaban Sahu, On the Fourier expansions of Jacobi forms of half-integral weight. Int. J. Math.

Math. Sci, 2006.

Dr. Binod Kumar Sahoo is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Brundaban Sahu is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010

Deepak Kumar Dalai Kamal Lochan PatraAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1996-1999 B.Sc Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.

1999-2001 M.Sc (Mathematics) Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.

2001-2003 M.Tech (Comp. Sc.) Indian Statistical Institute, India.

2003-2006 Ph.D (Comp. Sc.) Indian Statistical Institute, India.

2006-2007 Post doc INRIA, France.

1995-2000 B.Sc & M.Sc Utkal University, Orissa, India

2002-2008 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

2008 Post doc Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

§ Study and analysis of algebraic immunity of cryptographical Boolean functions.

§ Construction of cryptographical Boolean functions of high algebraic immunity.

§ Cryptanalysis of stream cipher HC256 and HC128.

§ Study and construction of Almost Perfect Nonlinear Substitution boxes.

§ Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

§ INRIA, France.

§ Calcutta University, Kolkata.

§ CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), Hyderabad.

§ Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

§ Linear Algebra

§ Graph Theory

1. Deepak Kumar Dalai, Subhamoy Maitra and Sumanta Sarkar, Rotation Symmetric Bent Functions, Discrete Mathematics,

2009, 309 (8), 2398-2409.

2. Deepak Kumar Dalai and Subhamoy Maitra, Algebraic Immunity of Boolean Functions: Analysis and Constructions, Special

Issue on Applied Cryptography and Data Security, Journal of Computacion y Sistemas, 2009, 12 (3),297-321.

3. Deepak Kumar Dalai, On 3-to-1 and Power APN S-boxe, International Conference on SEquences and Their Applications, 2008

(SETA08), Lexington, USA and published in Springer's LNCS 5203, 377-389.

4. Deepak Kumar Dalai, Kishan Chand Gupta and Subhamoy Maitra, Algebraic Immunity for Cryptographically Significant Boolean

Functions: Analysis and Construction-Claude Carlet, , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2006, 52 (7), 3105-3121.

5. Deepak Kumar Dalai, Subhamoy Maitra and Sumanta Sarkar, Basic Theory in Construction of Boolean Functions with

Maximum Possible Annihilator Immunity, Design, Codes and Cryptography, 2006, 40 (1), 41-58.

1. K. L. Patra and B. K. Sahoo, A non-abelian representation of the dual polar space DQ(2n,2), Innovations in Incidence Geometry,

2009, 9, 177-188.

2. A. K. Lal and K. L. Patra, The effect on the algebraic connectivity of a tree by grafting and collapsing of edges, Linear Algebra and

its Applications, 2008, 428, 855-864.

3. A. K. Lal and K. L. Patra, Maximizing Laplacian spectral radius over trees with fixed diameter, Linear and Multilinear Algebra,

2007, 55 (5), 457-461.

4. K. L. Patra, Maximizing the distance between center, centroid and characteristic set of a tree, Linear and Multilinear Algebra,

2007, 55 (4), 381-397.

5. A. K. Lal, S. Pati and K. L. Patra, Graph structure via its Laplacian matrix, The Mathematics Student, 2007, 76(1-4), 199-212.

Dr. Deepak Kumar Dalai is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009 Dr. Kamal Lochan Patra is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009

Nabin Kumar Jana Sanjay Parui?? Assistant Professor



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?? 1994-1999 Bsc. & MSc. University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India

2000-2005 Ph.D. Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore center.

2006-2008 Post Doc Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

§ ??

§ CSIR Fellowship, 2000.

§ NBHM Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2006.

§ Harmonic Analysis on Euclidean spaces, Heisenberg groups and Symmetric spaces.

§ IISc, Bangalore, HRI, Allahabad. ISI Kolkata.

1. ourier algebra of a

1. S. Parui and S. Thangavelu, J. Austral, Variations on a theorem of Cowling-Price with applications to nilpotent Lie groups, Math.

Soc., 2007, 82, 11-27.

2. S. Parui and Rudra P. Sarkar, Beurling's theorem and $L^p-L^q$ Morgan's theorem for step two nilpotent Lie Groups,

Publication, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2008, 44, 1027-1056.

3. S. Parui and S. Thangavelu, On theorems of Beurling and Hardy for certain step two nilpotent Lie groups, Integral Transforms

and Special Functions, 2009, 20 (2), 127-145.

Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ?? Dr. Sanjay Parui is currently holding the position of Asst. Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009

Narahari Parhi P. C. DasVisiting Professor


Visiting Professor



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1964 B.Sc. Utkal University, India

1966 M.Sc. Utkal University, India

1972 Ph.D. I. I. T.-Kanpur, India

1961 M.Sc Ravenshaw College (Utkal University)

1965 Ph.D Lomonosov Moscow State University, USSR

§ 1983 Visiting Mathematician to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

§ 1986 Visiting Mathematician to the ICTP, Trieste, Italy

§ 1987-1993 Associate Member, the ICTP, Trieste, Italy

§ Qualitative Theory of Ordinary and Functional Differential Equations & Difference Equations

§ Ode, Pde, Optimization and control, Finite element analysis, Inverse problems wavelets, Computer aided geometric design,

Tomography

1. N. Parhi and Anita Panda, Non-oscillation and oscillation of solutions of a class of third order difference equations, J. Math.

Anal. Appl., 2007, 336, 213-223. [Zbl 1125-39010.]

2. N. Parhi and P. Praharaj, Oscillation of non-linear second order matrix differential equations, Mathematica Slovaca, 2007, 57,

1-20.

3. N. Parhi and Anita Panda, Oscillatory and non-oscillatory behaviour of solutions of difference equations of third order,

Mathematica Bohemica, 2008, 133, 99-112. [MR 2400154 (2009e:39011)].

4. N. Parhi and Sunita Chand, Oscillation of solutions of neutral parabolic differential equations with oscillating coefficients,

Mathematica Slovaca, 2008, 58, 77-94.

1. VVKS Kumar, BV Rathis Kumar, PC Das, Webspline based mesh free finite element analysis for the approximation of the

stationary navier stokes problem, Nonlinear analysis Tmaelsevier, 2008, 68, 3366-3282

2. VVKS Kumar, BV Rathis Kumar, PC Das, Webspline based multigrid methods for stationary stokes problem, J of numerical

functional analysis and optimization, 2006, 27, 391-410

3. VVKS Kumar, BV Rathis Kumar, PC Das, Weighted extended b spline method for the approximation of stationary stokes problem,

Journal of computational andapllied mathematics (elsevier), 2006, 186-2

4. Challa. A Sastry, P C Das, A convolution back projection algorithm for local tomography, Anziam J., 2005, 46, 341-361

5. M K Jena, P Shunmugaraj, P C Das, A nonstationarysubdivision scheme for generalizing Trigonometric spline surfaces to

arbitrary meshes, Computer aided geometric design, 2003, 20-2

Dr. Narahari Parhi is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2007 Dr. P. C. Das NISER, Bhubaneswaris currently holding the position of Visiting Professor,

Vellat Krishna Kumar??


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RESEARCH AREAS


??

§ ??


Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ??


School ofPhysical Sciences

Ahmed Ansari Bimal P. MahapatraVisiting Professor

E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

Visiting Professor



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1967 M. Sc. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

1968 Post M. Sc. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

1974 Ph.D. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

1972 M.Sc. University of Delhi, India

1972 - 1979 Ph.D. Utkal University, India

Nuclear Physics:

§ Structure of high angular momentum states in nuclei

§ Structure of hot and rotating nuclei

§ Nuclear structure in relativistic theory

§ High Energy Physics-Theory & Phenomenology, QCD

§ Quantum Physics and Quantum Field Theory

1970 Mayubhanj Gold Medal (Utkal University)

1982 DAAD-Research Fellowship (Germany)

1982 Visiting Scientist (Syracuse University, USA)

1982 Visitor (SLAC, Stanford University)

1983 UGC-National associate, TIFR, Mumbai

1994-96 INSA-Senior Visiting Fellow

2008 “SIKSYA RATAN PURASKAR”, Indian International Friendship Society, Delhi

1. R. Rossignoli, A. Ansari and P. Ring. Projected statistics and level densitics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1993, 70, 277

1542. A. Ansari. g-factors of high spin states in Dy. Phys. Rev. C, 1994, 49, 2809

3. B. K. Agrawal, A. Ansari and P. Ring. A microscopic study of the giant dipole resonance γ-absorption cross section in hot rotating

nuclei. Nucl. Phys. 1997, A615, 183

+4. A. Ansari. Study of the lowest 2 excitations and B(E2) transition strengths in relativistic quasiparticle random phase

approximation for Sn-, and Pb-isotopes. Phys. Letts., 2005, B623, 37.

+ -5. A. Ansari and P. Ring. Lowest lying 2 and 3 states of Z-even N = 50 isotones in relativistic quasiparticle random phase

approximation. Modern Physics Letters, 2009, A24, 3103.

1. B.P. Mahapatra, N.Santi, A novel non-perturbative, self-consistent approximation scheme in quantum theory..., 2008,

arXiv:0806.2048[quant-ph].

2. B. P. Mahapatra, N. Santi, N. B. Pradhan, A new general approximation scheme in quantum theory, Int. J. Mod. Phys.-A, 2005,

20, 2687.

3. B.P. Mahapatra, A model independent constraint on the gluon structure function at small-x, Mod. Phys. Lett., 1989, A4, 1653

24. B.P. Mahapatra, Are the scaling violations observed in deep-inelastic lepton-hadron scattering purely(1/Q ) effects? Phys. Rev.,

1982, D26, 3002

25. B.P. Mahapatra, The effect of O(1/Q ) contributions in scaling violations…, Phys.Lett. 1980, 97B, 299.

Dr. Ahmed Ansari is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Bimal P. Mahapatra is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010

Sashikant C. Phatak Suresh G. MishraVisiting Professor


Visiting Professor



EDUCATION EDUCATION



1968 M.Sc. Bombay University, India

1974 Ph.D. University of Pittsburg, PA, USA.

1977 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

§ Intermediate energy nuclear physics, quark models, QGP

§ Many Particle Physics, Correlated Fermions, Magnetism, Quantum Phase Transition.

1. S. Dash, D. K. Mishra, S. C. Phatak and P. K. Sahu, Flow Coefficients and Jet Characteristics, Applied Math. And Information

Sciences - An International Journal, 2009, 3, 97

2. S. C. Phatak, Dielectric Model Nucleon in Nuclear Medum, International Journal of Modern Physics, 2009, 18, 1166

3. P. K. Sahu, A. Ohnishi, M. Isse, N. Otuka and S. C. Phatak, Elliptic Flow in Hadron Cascade Model at 130 GeV Energy, Pramana,

2006, 67, 257

4. Star Collaboration paper, Multiplicity and Pseudorapidity distributions of Charged Particles and Photons at Forward sPseudorapidity in Au + Au Collisions at Ö NN = 62.4 GeV, Phys. Rev. C, 2006, 73, 034906

6. S. C. Phatak and P. K. Sahu, Characterization of Jets in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Phys. Rev. C, 2004, 69, 024901

1. Nabyendu Das, Suresh G. Mishra, Quantum ferroelectrics near weak first order transition, Cond. Mat. arXiv, 0906.0944

2. Nabyendu Das, Suresh G. Mishra, First order phase transition in quantum paraelectrics, Cond. Mat. arXiv, 0805.4008

3. Nabyendu Das, Suresh G. Mishra, Fluctuations and criticality in quantum paraelectrics, Cond. Mat. arXiv, 0707.2634, J. Phys.:

Condens. Matter , 2009, 21, 095901

Dr. Sashikant C. Phatak is currently holding the position of Visiting Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2007 Dr. Suresh G. Mishra is currently holding the position of Associate Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2008

Sanjay K. Swain Subhasish BasakReader (F)


Reader - F



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1994 – 1996 M.Sc. Utkal University, Orissa, India

1996 – 1997 Post MS Institute Of Physics, Orissa, India

1998 – 2003 Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI, USA

2004 – 2008 RA SLAC/Stanford University, CA, USA

2008 – 2009 RA Fermilab, USA (from Stanford University)

1987 – 1990 B.Sc. Presidency College, Kolkata, India.

1990 – 1992 M.Sc. University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

1994 – 1995 Post M.Sc. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

1995 – 2003 Ph.D. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

2003 – 2005 Post Doc University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

2007 – 2008 Post Doc Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

Collider Physics:

§ CP violation and B-decays

§ Lepton Flavor Violation

Neutrino Physics:

§ Neutrino Oscillation

§ Lattice QCD – Baryon spectroscopy

§ Electromagnetic corrections in QCD

§ Heavy flavors

± ±1. S. K. Swain et al. (BaBar Collaboration), Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays , Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 100, 071802.

2. S. K. Swain et al. (BaBar Collaboration), Lepton flavor violation in tau lepton + P where P is pseudo scalar meson, Phys. Rev. Lett.,

2007, 98, 061803.

3. S. K. Swain et al., A Novel Technique for the Production of Large Area Z-coordinate Readout Planes for the BaBar Muon System,

NIM-A, 2006, 556 134.

± ±4. S. K. Swain et al, (Belle Collaboration), Measurement of branching fraction ratios and CP asymmetries in B D K , Phys. Rev. D, CP

2003, 68, 051101.

± ±5. S. K. Swain et al. (Belle Collaboration), Studies of the decay B D K , Phys. Rev. Lett. 2003, 90, 131803.CP

1. S. Basak, A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, Carleton E. DeTar, W. Freeman, Steven Gottlieb, U.M. Heller, J.E. Hetrick, J. Laiho, L. Levkova, J.

Osborn, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint. Electromagnetic splittings of hadrons from improved staggered quarks in full QCD: (MILC

Collaboration). PoS (LATTICE 2008) 127.

2. S. Basak, R.G. Edwards, G.T. Fleming, K.J. Juge, A. Lichtl, C. Morningstar, D.G. Richards, I. Sato, S.J. Wallace. Lattice QCD

determination of patterns of excited baryon states: (LHP Collaboration). PRD, 2007, 76, 074504.

3. S. Basak, R. Edwards, G.T. Fleming, U.M. Heller, C. Morningstar, D. Richards, I. Sato, S.J. Wallace. Clebsch-Gordan construction of

lattice interpolating fields for excited baryons: (LHP Collaboration). PRD, 2005, 72, 074501.

4. S. Basak, Asit K. De and Tilak Sinha. On the continuum limit of gauge fixed compact U(1) lattice gauge theory. Phys. Lett. B, 2004,

580, 209.

5. S. Basak, Asit K. De. Gauge fixed domain wall fermions on lattice at small Yukawa coupling. Phys. Lett., 2001, B522, 350.

Dr. Sanjay K. Swain is currently holding the position of Reader-F, NISER, Orissa, India from 2009 Dr. Subhasish Basak is currently holding the position of Reader – F, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009

A. V. Anil Kumar Ashok MohapatraAssistant Professor


Assistant Professor



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1990 – 1993 B. Sc. University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India

1993 – 1995 M. Sc. Indian Institute of Technology, Channai, India

1995 – 2002 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2002 – 2003 Post Doc Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

2003 – 2004 Post Doc University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.

2004 – 2006 Post Doc The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

2006 – 2008 Post Doc Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

1996 – 1998 MSc. Utkal University

1998 – 2005 PhD TIFR,Mumbai

2005 – 2006 Visiting Fellow TIFR,Mumbai

2006 – 2008 Post Doc. Durham University,UK

2008 – 2010 Post.Doc. University of Stuttgart, Germany

§ Equilibrium and non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics,

§ Soft Condensed matter ,

§ Confined fluids,

§ Classical molecular simulations.

§ Alexander von Humboldt Fellow June 2009

§ An “Honorable Mention” for TAA-Geeta Udgaonkar Award for best Thesis 2006-2007

§ Best thesis award in national laser symposium, India, 2005

§ Ultracold atoms

§ Bose-Einstein condensation

1. A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia. Is kinetic molecular sieving of hydrogen isotopes feasible? J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112,

11421.

2. Ankur Gigras, Suresh K. Bhatia, A. V. Anil Kumar and Alan Myers. Feasibility of tailoring for high isosteric heat to improve

effectiveness of hydrogen storage in carbons. Carbon, 2007, 45, 1043.

3. A. V. Anil Kumar, H. Jobic and Suresh K. Bhatia. Hydrogen adsorption and transport in zeolite Rho at low temperatures: A

Molecular dynamics and Neutron scattering study. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 16666.

4. A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia. Quantum mediated reverse kinetic molecular sieving in microporous materials. Phys.

Rev. Lett., 2005, 95, 245901.

5. P. K. Ghorai, A. V. Anil Kumar, S. Sastry and S. Yashonath. Diffusion maximum as a function of size in dense liquids. Phys. Rev. E.,

2005, 72, 030202(R).

1. A. K. Mohapatra, M. G. Bason, B. Butscher, K. J. Weatherill, and C. S. Adams: A Giant electro-optic effect using polarizable dark

states, Nature Physics, 2008, 4, 890.

2. A. K. Mohapatra, T. R. Jackson, and C. S. Adams: Coherent optical detection of highly excited rydberg states using

electromagnetically induced transparency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 113003.

3. R. P. Abel, A. K. Mohapatra, M. G. Bason, J. D. Pritchard, K. J. Weatherill, U. Raitzsch, and C. S. Adams: Laser frequency

stabilization to highly excited state transitions using electromagnetically induced transparency in a cascade system, Appl.

Phys. Lett. 2009, 94, 071107.

4. K. J. Weatherill, J. Pritchard, R. P. Abel, M. G. Bason, A. K. Mohapatra, and C. S. Adams: Electromagnetically induced

transparency of an interacting cold Rydberg ensemble, J. Phys. B. 2008, 41, 201002.

5. A. K. Mohapatra, and C. S. Unnikrishnan: Measurement of the van de Waals force using reflection of cold atoms from magnetic

thin-film atom mirrors, Europhys. Lett. 2006, 73, 839.

Dr. A. V. Anil Kumar is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. Ashok Mohapatra is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010

Chethan N. Gowdigere Colin BenjaminAssistant Professor


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1999 MSc. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

2005 PhD. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

2005 – 2008 Post Doc International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

2008 – 2009 RA Brandeis University, Boston, USA and Saclay, Paris.

2009 – 2010 Post Doc Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India.

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§ High-energy physics

§ Mainly string theory and it's gravitational aspects

§ black holes § ??

1. Chethan N. Gowdigere, D. Nemeschansky and N. P. Warner. Supersymmetric solutions with fluxes from algebraic Killing

spinors. Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 2004, 7, 787.

2. Chethan N. Gowdigere. Supersymmetric flux solutions and algebraic Killing spinors PhD Thesis, University of Southern

California, Los Angeles, U.S.A, 2005.

3. A. K. Balasubramanian, S. Govindarajan and Chethan N. Gowdigere. Symplectic potentials and resolved Ricci-flat ACG metrics

Class. Quantum Grav. 2007, 24, 6393-6415.

4. R. Fareghbal, Chetan N. Gowdigere, A. E. Mosaffa and M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari. Nearing 11d Extremal Intersecting Giants and New

Decoupled Sectors in D = 3,6 SCFT's. Phys. Rev. D, 2010, 81, 046005.

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Dr. Chethan N. Gowdigere is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ??

Joydeep Bhattacharjee Kartikeswar SenapatiAssistant Professor


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2001 M.Sc. University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

2007 Ph. D. JNCSR, Bangalore, India.

2007 RC Motorola India Research Laboratory, Bangalore

2007 - 2009 Post Doc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

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§ Ab-initio firsts principles studies of electronic structure of materials

§ Excited states and quantum transport at lower dimensions

§ New materials for nano-electronics and green-energy applications.

§ ??

1. J. Bhattacharjee and U. V. Waghmare. Geometric phases and Wannier functions of Bloch electrons in one dimension. Phys.

Rev. B, 2005, 71, 045106.

2. J. Bhattacharjee and U. V. Waghmare. Localized orbital description of electronic structures of extended periodic metals,

insulators, and confined systems: Density functional theory calculations. Phys. Rev. B, 2006, 73 (R), 121102.

3. Efrain E. Rodriguez, Frederic Poineau, Anna Llobet, Alfred P. Sattelberger, J. Bhattacharjee, Umesh V. Waghmare, Thomas

Hartmann, and Anthony K. Cheetham. Structural Studies of Tc by Neutron Powder Diffraction and First-Principles Calculations.

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 10244.

4. Ramesh Jasti, J. Bhattacharjee, J. B. Neaton, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi. The Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory of [9]-, [12]-,

and [18] Cycloparaphenylene: Carbon Nanohoop Structures. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (52), 17646.

5. Bhupesh Chandra, J. Bhattacharjee, Meninder Purewal, Yang Wu, Mingyuan Huang, Tony Heinz, Philip Kim, Jeff Neaton, James

Hone. Molecular-Scale Quantum Dots from Carbon Nanotube Heterojunctions. Nano Letters, 2009, 9 (4), 1544.

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Dr. Joydeep Bhattacharjee is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ??

Prasanjit Samal Pratap K. SahooAssistant Professor


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1995 – 1998 B. Sc. Utkal University, Orissa, India

1998 – 2000 M. Sc. Utkal University, Orissa, India

2001 – 2007 Ph. D. I. I. T. Kanpur, India

2007 – 2008 Post Doc CEMS University of Minnesota, USA

1992 – 1995 B. Sc. Ravenshaw College Cuttack, Orissa, India

1995 – 1997 M. Sc. Ravenshaw College Cuttack, Orissa, India

1997 – 2004 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2004 – 2005 Post Doc University of Göttingen, Germany

2005 – 2006 Post Doc IKS-Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2006 – 2008 PD Scientist Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

2008 – 2009 PD Scientist Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany

§ Methodological developments of excited-state Density-functional theory (DFT), both static and time-dependent.

§ Nanostructures

§ Molecular Electronics

§ Center for Excellence Award for Scientific Research: KU Leuven, Belgium 2004-2005

§ Ion beam synthesis for Nanocluster

§ Optical properties of embedded nanostructure

§ Fabrication of different Micro- and Nanostructures

§ Characterization of Nanophotonic and plasmonics devices

§ FDTD Simulation of photonic/plasmonic devices

§ Modeling and design of metamaterials

1. M. K. Harbola and P. Samal, Time-independent excited-state density functional theory: study of 1s(2)2p(3)(4S) and 1s(2)2p(3)

(2D) states of Boron isoelectronic series up to Ne(5+), J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2009, 42, 015003 .

2. M. Rahman, S. Ganguli, P. Samal, M. K. Harbola, T. Saha-Dasgupta and A. Mookerjee, A local-density approximation for the

exchange energy functional for excited states in bulk semiconductors: the band gap problem. Physica B, 2009, 4040, 1137.

3. P. Samal and M. K. Harbola, Analysis of Floquet formulation of time-dependent ensityfunctional theory, Chemical Physics

Letters, 2006, 433, 204.

4. P. Samal and M. K. Harbola, Exploring foundations of time-independent density-functional theory for excited-states, J. Phys. B:

At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2006, 39, 4065.

5. P. Samal and M. K. Harbola and A. Holas, Density-to-potential map in time-independent excited- state density-functional

theory, Chemical Physics Letters, 2006, 419, 217. 1. Arda Kiristopuryan, Yasin Ekinci, Reto Giannini, P. K. Sahoo, Ganna Gorodyska, and Jörg F. Löffler, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2009, 95,

231903.

2. P. K. Sahoo, K. Vogelsang, H. Schift, and H. H. Solak, Applied Surface Science, 2009, 256, 431.

3. T. Sonnomiya, P. K. Sahoo, D. I. Mahcicek, H. H. Solak, C. Hafner, D. Grieshaber, and J. Vörös, Nano and Micro, 'Small', 2009, 5(9),

999.

4. V. Auzelyte, P. K. Sahoo, C. Dais, P. Farquet, D. Grützmacher, L. Heyderman, F. Luo, S. Olliges, C. Padeste, T. Thomson, A.

Turchanin, C. David, H. H. Solak, J. Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS, 2009, 8(2), 021204

5. Sankha S. Sarkar P. K. Sahoo, H. H. Solak, C. David, J. F. van der Veen, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 2009, 186, 012071.

Dr. Prasanjit Samal Bhubaneswar from 2009is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Dr. Pratap K. Sahoo is currently holding the position of Assistant professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar, India from 2009

Ritwick Das Subhankar BedantaAssistant Professor


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1999 – 2002 B.Sc. Hindu College, University of Delhi, India

2002 – 2004 M.Sc. I.I.T. Delhi, India

2004 – 2008 Ph.D. I.I.T. Delhi, India

2008 – 2010 Post Doc The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

1996 – 1999 B.Sc. Salipur College, Utkal University, India

1999 – 2001 M.Sc. Utkal University, India

2002 – 2006 Ph.D. University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

2006 – 2008 Post Doc University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

2009 – 2010 Post Doc Princeton University, NJ, USA

§ Juan de la Cierva (JdC) Fellowship by Spanish Ministry – 2008

§ Propagation characteristics in novel optical waveguides such as Photonic Crystal waveguides.

§ Second order nonlinear optical phenomenon & applications

§ Plasmonics at optical as well as terahertz (THz) frequencies

§ Optical fiber amplifiers and lasers.

§ Graduate college fellowship: “Structure and Dynamics of heterogeneous systems” from May 2002 till April 2005.

§ Interaction effects in ensembles of magnetic nanoparticles

§ Magnetic nanostructures

§ Magnetic thin films

§ Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials

1. Ritwick Das, S. Chaitanya Kumar, G. K. Samanta, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh. Broadband, high-power, continuous-wave, mid-

infrared source using extended phase-matching bandwidth in MgO:PPLN. Optics Letters, 2009, 34, 3836-3838.

2. G. K. Samanta, S. Chaitanya Kumar, Ritwick Das, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh. Continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator

pumped by a fiber laser green source at 532 nm. Optics Letters, 2009, 34, 2255-2257.

3. Krishna Thyagarajan, Ritwick Das, Olivier Alibart, Marc de Micheli, Daniel B. Owstrosky, Sébastien Tanzilli. Increased pump

acceptance bandwidth in spontaneous parametric down conversion process using Bragg reflection waveguides. Optics

Express, 2008, 16, 3577-3582.

4. Ritwick Das and K. Thyagarajan. Broadening of the phase-matching bandwidth in quasi-phase matched second harmonic

generation using GaN based Bragg reflection waveguide. Optics Letters, 2007, 32, 3128-3130.

5. Ritwick Das. Ultra-broadband optical parametric amplification by tailoring the group-velocity-dispersion of Bragg reflection

waveguides. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2009, 42, 235106.

1. S. Bedanta and W. Kleemann. Supermagnetism. J. Phys. D Appl. Phys., 2009, 42, 013001 (Invited review article).

2. S Bedanta, J Rhensius, W Kleemann, P. Parashar, S Cardoso, and P P Freitas. Dynamic behavior of a superferromagnetic metal-

insulator multilayer observed by magneto-optic Kerr microscopy. J. Appl. Phys., 2009, 105, 07C306.

3. S. Bedanta, E. Kentzinger, O. Petracic, W. Kleemann, U. Rücker, A. Paul, Th. Brückel, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas. Modulated

magnetization depth profile in dipolarly coupled magnetic multilayers. Phys. Rev. B., 2006, 74, 054426

4. S. Bedanta, T. Eimüller, W. Kleemann, J. Rhensius, F. Stromberg, E. Amaladass, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas. Overcoming dipolar

disorder in dense CoFe nanoparticle ensembles –superferromagnetism. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2007, 98, 176601

5. V. V. Shvartsman, S. Bedanta, P. Borisov, W. Kleemann, A. Tkach, and P. Vilarinho, (Sr,Mn)TiO – a magnetoelectric multiglass, 3

Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 101, 165704

Dr. Ritwick Das is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. Subhankar Bedanta is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010

Sumedha Yogesh SrivastavaAssistant Professor


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1999 MSc. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

2005 PhD. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

2005 – 2006 Post Doc University of Paris-Sud XI (Orsay), Paris, France

2006 – 2008 Post Doc Institute of Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy

2008 – 2009 Post Doc Brandeis University, Boston, USA.

2009 – 2010 Post Doc Harish Chandra Research Institute, India.

1996-2001 M.Sc (Int.) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2001-2007 Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

2007-2009 Post Doc Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India

2009-2010 Post Doc IPMU, University of Tokyo, Japan

§ Statistical mechanics and interdisciplinary applications

§ Classical and Quantum Physics of Black Holes, especially in String Theory

§ AdS/CFT correspondence and it's applications

§ High Energy Physics

1. A thermodynamic model for agglomeration of DNA-looping proteins, Sumedha and Martin Weigt, J. Stat. Mech., 2008,

P11005.

2. Clustering by soft-constraint affinity propagation: Applications to gene-expression data, Michele Leone, Sumedha and Martin

Weigt, Bioinformatics, 2007, 23, 2708.

3. Population size effects in evolutionary dynamics on neutral networks and toy landscapes, Sumedha, Olivier C Martin and Luca

Peliti, J. Stat. Mech., 2007, P05011.

4. Efficiency of the Incomplete Enumeration algorithm for Monte-Carlo simulation of linear and branched polymers, Sumedha

and Deepak Dhar, J.Stat. Phys., 2005, 120, 71-100.

5. Directed Branched Polymer near an Attractive Line, Sumedha, J. Phys.A:Math. Gen., 2004, 37, 3673.

1. S. D. Mathur, A. Saxena and Y. K. Srivastava, Constructing 'hair' for the three charge hole, Nucl. Phys. B, 2004, 680, 415.

2. D. Astefanesei and Y. K. Srivastava, CFT Duals for Attractor Horizons, Nucl. Phys. B, 2009, 822, 283.

3. S. Banerjee, A. Sen and Y. K. Srivastava, Partition Functions of Torsion >1 Dyons in Heterotic String Theory on T^6, JHEP, 2008,

0805, 098.

4. S. Banerjee, A.Sen and Y. K. Srivastava, Generalities of Quarter BPS Dyon Partition Function and Dyons of Torsion Two, JHEP,

2008, 0805, 101.

5. S. Giusto, S. D. Mathur and Y. K. Srivastava, A microstate for the 3-charge black ring, Nucl. Phys. B, 2007, 763, 60.

Dr. Sumedha is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. Yogesh Srivastava is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010

Sudakshina PrustyScientific Officer (E)



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2000 M.Sc. Utkal University, India

2006 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

§ Semiconductor nanomaterials, Laser induced material synthesis, Photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, Optical

nonlinearity in nanomaterials.

1. M. Anbarasu, S. Asokan, Sudakshina Prusty, A.K. Sood, Structural origin of set-reset processes in Ge Te Si glass investigated 15 83 2

using in situ Raman scattering and transmission electron microscopy, J. Appl. Phys., 2009, 105, 084517.

2. M. Anbarasu, S. Asokan, Sudakshina Prusty, A.K. Sood, Electrical switching and in-situ Raman scattering studies on the SET-

RESET processes in Ge-Te-Si Glass, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2007, 91, 093520.

3. H.S. Mavi, Sudakshina Prusty, Manoj Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, S. Rath and A.K. Shukla, Formation of self-limiting Si and Ge

quantum structures by laser-induced etching, Phys. Stat. Sol. (a), 2006, 203, 2444.

4. Sudakshina Prusty, H.S. Mavi and A.K. Shukla, Optical nonlinearity in silicon nanoparticles: effects of size and probing intensity,

Phys. Rev. B, 2005, 71, 113313.

5. H.S. Mavi, Sudakshina Prusty, A.K. Shukla and S.C. Abbi, Nonlinear phenomenon in nanocrystallites produced by laser-induced

etching of silicon, Opt.Commun., 2003, 226, 405.

Dr. Sudakshina Prusty is currently holding the position of Scientific Officer (E), NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2009


Humanities& Social Sciences

Debashis Pattanaik Pranay Kumar SwainAssistant Professor of Sociology


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1995 B. A. IGNOU, New Delhi

1998 M. A. Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

2007 Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur

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§ Pondicherry University Gold Medal, Pondicherry University, 1998

§ Social innovation

§ Social network analysis

§ Social representation

§ Social study of science and technology

§ Disability studies

§ ??

1. Pattanaik, D., and Chatterjee J., Services innovation - digital ecosystem approach to dissemination and co-creation of

knowledge for Indian agriculture extension services, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science

and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2009), IEEE.

2. Pattanaik, D., and Chatterjee J., Socio-technical innovation and the role of conversation in a digital ecosystem for agricultural

extension services in India, Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST

2009), IEEE.

3. Pattanaik, D., and Sarkar R. (2008). “Empowering farmers in India using Kisan blog,” in The Participatory Web – New Potentials

of ICT in Rural Areas, edited by Christian Kreutz, Eschborn: gtz Knowledge System in Rural Areas.

4. Pattanaik, D and Chatterjee, J. (2008). “Sociology of digital communities – bridging the gap between theories of 'Internet

Spectatorship' and 'Rule System Theory',” in Proceedings of the Second International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems

(OPAALS 2008), edited by Ossi Nykanen, Jukka Huhtamaki, Jaakko Salonen, Seppo Pohjolainen and Kirsi Silius, Tampere:

Hypermedia Laboratory of the Tampere University of Technology.

5. Pattanaik, D., and Jha, M. (2007). “Knowledge and identity among the indigenous people,” The Oriental Anthropologist, vol.7,

no. 2:199-212.

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Dr. Debashis Pattanaik is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor, NISER, Bhubaneswar from 2010 Dr. ?? is currently holding the position of ??

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