Indian Institute of

Science Education
and Research (IISER)
Thiruvananthapuram

An Autonomous Institution
Under Ministry of Human Resource &
Development (MHRD),
Govt. of India.
 • Established by the Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD), GOI
• The mission : To boost the education and research in basic sciences

IISER TVM Faculty Student strength Academic Programmes Our Director

Regular faculty: 54
Honorary Professor: 4
Emeritus Professor: 1
Visiting Professor: 4
Integrated BS-MS: 566
Integrated Ph.D: 42
Ph.D: 151
Total Strength: 759
Integrated BS-MS Prof. V Ramakrishnan
Integrated Ph.D 30 years of teaching and
Ph.D research experience. He is
Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship an internationally renowned
scientist in the field of
Raman spectroscopy.

Faculty recognitions Admission to the integrated BS-MS Programme

● 7 Ramanujan Fellowships
● 2 Swarnajayanti Fellowship
● 2 Ramalingaswamy Fellowships
● 3 DBT Wellcome Trust
Fellowships
● 2 INSPIRE Faculty Fellowships
● 1 Max Planck-India Fellow
● 12 Young Scientist Awards
(INSA, DAE and KSCSTE)
● 3 Young associates of IAS
● 1 Bhuti Foundation Award
● 1 N. R. Sen Award
● 1 J C Bose Fellowship
● Fellow, INSA
● Fellow, IOP (UK)
● 2 Max Planck Partner Groups
● 1 Du Pont Young Faculty Award
International Connections with MoU’s signed date
 Kishore Vygyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY)
scholarship holder 1. University of Bristol, UK Sept 4, 2015
 IIT-JEE (Advanced) rank list 2. Max-Planck, Germany July 21, 2015
 Direct admission to top 1% of each school board 3. Stockholm University, Sweden June 1, 2015
4. Lund University, Sweden June 1, 2015
5. National University of Singapore April 15, 2015
6. Åbo Akademi University, Finland October 15, 2014
Three batches of BSMS students have graduated! 7. SINTEF Materials and Chemistry October 14, 2014
BSMS students Graduated: 114 8.University of Turku, Finland October 14, 2014
Status: 72 Pursuing Ph.D 9. Institute for Energy Technology (“IFE”), Norway October 14,
In India: 27 2014
10. Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan May 15, 2014
Abroad: 45
11. Rice University, USA In Process
12. University of Parma - Italy In Process
Offer to the Students
 All integrated BS-MS students receive a stipend of Rs. 5000/- per month.
 Annual contingency grant and can be used according to prescribed guidelines.
 PhD students get independent support through CSIR/UGC JRF are encouraged.
 Highly bright students are directly funded by the institute to similar levels.
 Integrated PhD Students also receive financial support from the institute.

Students Hostels
Number of Storeys: Ground + 3 Floors
Built-up Area: 7,825 Square Meters
Common Instrumentation lab - 3 nos.
Research labs - 28 no as.
Teaching labs - 6 nos.
Computer lab - 1 no.
IISER TVM Entrance
Chemical Sciences Block
Class Rooms: 12 nos.
Faculty Rooms: 33 nos.
160 capacity Seminar room: 1 no.
Chairman’s Office, meeting room
Interaction space – Landscaped Court Central Dinning Hall
 Members of the School
Research Interests
 Molecular Complexation & Host-Guest Faculty members - 18
Interactions Visiting professors - 01
 Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Honorary Professor - 01
 Novel Charge Transfer Composite PhD Students - 52
Post doctoral fellows - 08
Nanomaterials
Integrated PhD students - 07
 Superconductivity & Multiferroics BS-MS Major Physics a - 36
 Ultrafast optical studies in semiconductors
 Energy Storage, Organic and hybrid
optoelectronics Research Facilities
 Nanomagnetism & Molecular magnets
 Quantum Information theory Bridgeman Furnace 4K Cryostat
 Laser spectroscopy
 Classical and Quantum Gravity
 Nonlinear optical phenomena
 Opto-mechanical interactions
Students Laurels
First rank in JEST-2014
SPM fellowship of CSIR for the year 2014-2015. High Pressure Gas
Several students within the top 10 ranks in CSIR-
Adsorption Facility
JRF examination.
One student selected for the Lindau Meeting in Germany
Placement/ Higher studies for
Placement/ Higher studies for Awards and Achievements
Batch Graduated in 2014
Batch Graduated in 2015 Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK)
No. Name of the student University
Ramanujan Fellowship, DST (2) - 2010
1. Chithra H Sharma IISER-TVM No. Name of the student University
Young Associate, Indian Academy - 2010 Ti-Sapphire LASER
2. Krishnan and Mallayya M Pennsylvania State University
1. Sreekanth KM Stockholm University INSA Young Scientist Award - 2010
3. Salini K Dartmouth College
2. Ramasubramonian D University of Illinois at Chicago, Max Planck Partner Group - 2011
4. N.Vigneshwar IMSc, Chennai Illinois, USA Max Planck Partner Group - 2011
5. Ajeesh M. O. Max Planck Institute, Germany 3. Karthik R IUCAA, Pune Max Planck-India Fellowship - 2011
6. Vijay Pathak IISER-TVM
4. Prasanna Patil Southern Illinois University, USA Young Scientist Award, DAE - 2012
7. Atul Mohan NCRA, TIFR, PUNE
5. Sisira Kanhirathingal Dartmouth College Bhuti Foundation Award, IPA - 2012
8. Amandeep Singh Buppal IISc, BANGALORE
6. Yadukrishnan S University of Tennessee, USA Young Scientist Award, KSCSTE - 2015
9. Ajit Kumar Mehta ICTS, TIFR, BANGALORE
7. Sreenath K M University of Rochester, USA Ramanujan Fellowship - 2015
10. Mani Ratnam Rai IISc, BANGALORE
8. V P S Ritwika University of California, Merced B. M. Birla Science Prize-2014 - 2015
11. Neeraj Kumar Rajak IISER-TVM
N. R. Sen Award from IAGRG - 2015

Awards and Achievements
J. C. Bose Fellowship, DST
Materials Science Research India Award
Fellow, INSA
Ramanujan Fellowship, DST
Swarnajayanti Fellowship, DST
Young Investigator Award, Boston
Young Scientist Award, KSCSTE
Young Scientist Asian Photochemistry
Ramanujan Fellowship
Young Scientist Award, KSCSTE
Inspire Fellowship, DST
Young Associate, Indian Academy
Ramanujan Fellowship ,DST
Young Scientist Award, KSCSTE
Members of the School Research Interests
 Methodology development & natural product synthesis
Faculty members - 18  Photophysics: Long-lived charge-separated states & Intersystem
Visiting Professors - 01
crossing
Honorary Professor - 01
 Supramolecular chemistry with DNA
PhD Students - 62
Post doctoral fellows - 05  Excited state dynamics of various chemical systems using ultrafast
Integrated PhD students - 11 vibrational spectroscopy
BS-MS Major - 33  Organometallic chemistry of early transition elements
 Light energy conversion systems
 Sensing and catalytic behavior of inorganic-organic hybrid materials
Students Laurels  Modelling molecular interactions with carbon-based materials like
6 PhD students graduated graphene, graphynes, etc.
 Metal organic frameworks (MOF) and porous materials for gas
Eli-Lilly Best Thesis Award (2013) separation and storage
Malhotra Weikfield Foundation - Nano Young  NMR spectroscopy of protein aggregates, membrane proteins and
Scientist Award (2012) peptides
35 BSMS students graduated from SoC  Stereospecific coupling reactions and cross-coupling of enantiopure
organometallics
BSMS students qualified in CSIR-JRF!  Activation and functionalization of relatively unreactive C–H bonds
3 students selected from SoC for the Lindau  Macrocycles: Model compounds to understand aromaticity and
Nobel Laureate meetings antiaromaticity.
Eli-Lilly Best Thesis Award (2015)
- 2013 Research Facilities
- 2014 500 MHz NMR, IR Spectrometer,
- 2014 UV-VIS Spectrometer, Single Crysal
- 2010 X-ray Diffractometer, Flourimeter,
- 2014 DSC, TGA, ITC, Particle size
- 2015 analyzer, Polarimeter, AFM/STM,
- 2014 FPLC, DNA Synthesizer, Peptide
- 2014 Synthesizer, GC-MS, Elemental
- 2012 analyzer, Recycling HPLC,
- 2015 Analytical HPLC, Raman
- 2013 Spectroscope, Picosecond Laser
- 2014
system, Computational Cluster
- 2015
- 2015
 Members of the School Research Interests

Faculty members - 12 • Regulation of centrosome division pathways

Awards and Achievements
INSA Young Scientist Award
Ramalingaswami Fellowship, DBT
Visiting professors - 02 • The link between protein folding regulators and molecules controlling
Honorary Professor - 01 patterning in plants
PhD Students - 41 • Regulator of G-proteins and other players in Renin Angiotensin
Post doctoral fellows - 03 Signaling (RAS) pathway
Integrated PhD students - 05 • Elucidation of the molecular pathways involved in immune-related
BS-MS Major Biology - 65 autophagy
• Evolution and maintenance of sociality in social spiders.
• Phylogenetics, biogeography and phylogeography of various taxa
Extramural funding including insects and plants.
• Crossover assurance mechanisms that ensure accurate disjunction of
Wellcome Trust-DBT, Royal Chemical
homologous chromosomes in meiosis.
Society, UK
Osaka University, Japan, Dept. of • The signaling cascades that orchestrate the developmental events
Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, Dept. during cell cycle in tune with the metabolic state of the cell.
of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of • The molecular basis of the uniparental genome elimination that triggers
India haploid embryo production after fertilization in plants.
Dept. of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of • Regulatory centers in the brain and the endocrine system helps to
India, maintain nutrient homeostasis.
Council for Scientific & Industrial • Developmental hematopoiesis and hematopoietic Stem cell niche
Research (CSIR), Govt. of India • Neuropeptides involved in circadian clock mediated behavioral rhythms.
- 2009
Dupont Inc. USA, UK-India Education and
Research Links (UKIERI) Research Facilities
- 2011

Welcome Trust DBT Intermediate Fellowship - Fluorescence Activated Cell

Sorting (FACS), Beckman
2011 coulter ultra centrifuge, Fast Protein
Liquid Crystallography (FPLC),
Ramalingaswami Fellowship, DBT - 2011 Isothermal Titration
Calorimetry (ITC), UV/Vis/NIR
Ramanujan Fellowship, DST - 2012 Spectrophotometer, DNA
Synthesizer, Peptide Synthesizer,
Inspire Faculty Fellowship - 2013
Fully motorized upright fluorescence
Young Associate, Indian Academy - 2014 microscope, Fully motorized inverted
fluorescence microscope, Fully
DuPond Young Faculty Award - 2014 motorized fluorescent stereo
microscope
Welcome Trust DBT Intermediate Fellowship -

2015
 Research Interests

 Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, Asymptotic preserving schemes.

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The interplay between the non-negativity of various generalized inverses and the
geometry of the underlying cones.

Nonlinear partial differential equations arising mostly from fluid dynamics driven
by Wiener or Le’vy processes.

 Developing financial models that integrates financial theory, the methods of

engineering, the tools of mathematics and the practice of programming.

 Connections on categorical bundles, Gerbs, Poisson geometry and geometric

quantization and symplectic geometry.

 Characterizing the sets of periodic points and periods of various dynamical

systems.

 Characterizing the sets of periodic points and periods of various dynamical

systems.
Members of the School  control theory and game theory problems arising through ordinary and partial
differential equations.
Faculty members - 10
Visiting professors - 02  Non abelian tensor product of groups, which has its roots in algebraic k-theory
Honorary Professor - 02 and algebraic
PhD Students - 10 topology.
Post doctoral fellows -
 Hochschild and cyclic homologies of crossed modules of associative algebras.

The geometric questions of the moduli space of vector bundles over smooth
projective variety.
Awards and Achievements

Young Scientist Award KSCSTE 2015

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