PhD Supervisors

PHD SUPERVISORS

SL. No.	Department	Name of the Supervisor	Designation	Area of Specialisation	PhD Scholars
School of Business
1	Commerce	Dr Sayantani Banerjee	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Rupee Convertibility Responsible financing Digital Currencies Public finance and taxation Financial Inclusion	2023 Ms M Abiya Emima Mr Cyril
2	Management	Dr S Amudhan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Behavioural Finance on Investment Avenues Digital Transformation and CRM on Banking Forecasting of Volatility of Bank and IT Nifty SME’s Problems and Prospectus Entrepreneurship in Digital Era Employee Training and Development on Human Resource Management General Management on Hospitality, Tourism Management Emerging Trends of E Commerce and Customer Satisfaction on Marketing Socio Economic Revolution in Modern Management FDI & FII on Indian Stock Market	2023 Ms Sarah John Fr Joy Pradeep Rodrigues
School of Chemical Sciences
3	Chemistry	Dr Anchal Singhal	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Organic chemistry (organic synthesis and reaction mechanism) Heterocyclic chemistry (synthesis and biological activity evaluation of heterocyclic compounds) Bio-organic chemistry (understanding of reaction mechanism/ drug metabolism in biological system) Green chemistry (design and development of greener strategies for synthesis of compounds; applications of green catalysts; greener reaction conditions)	2023 Madhushree B N 2024 Swetha M
4	Chemistry	Dr Debashis Ghosh	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Electrochemical and photochemical CO2 reduction Electrochemical and photochemical functionalization of heterocycles C-H activation of various organic molecules Development of chiral organocatalysts as well as transition metal complexes. Asymmetric CO2 fixation to organic molecules	2023 Nandini M 2024 Sushma A
5	Chemistry	Dr Libi Thomas	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Conducting polymers Nanoparticles/nanocomposites-synthesis Applications of nanocomposites in the following fields: Energy storage, Environmental remediation, Organic synthesis	2023 Ms Hannah Harshini Joseph 2024 Nivedita Ghosh
6	Chemistry	Dr Melwin Colaco	Professor	Area of Specialisation Protein Chemistry Green synthesis of organic compounds and its applications	2023 Manoj P
7	Chemistry	Dr Michael Rajamathi R	Emeritus Professor	Area of Specialisation Solid State Chemistry Materials Chemistry Nanoscience	2024 Avinash C M
8	Chemistry	Dr Rita Pal	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Carbohydrate chemistry Asymmetric multi-step total synthesis Development of synthetic methodology Supramolecular chemistry	2023 J Saurab Jain
9	Chemistry	Dr Ronald Mascarenhas	Professor	Area of Specialisation Electrochemistry Developing electrochemical sensors for biologically significant molecules such as endocrine disruptors, neurotransmitters, amino acids, flavonoids, heavy metal ions, pharmaceutically significant molecules, and environmentally hazardous molecules. Application of the developed sensors in the determination of target analyte in real samples such as blood serum, cerebral fluid, urine, milk, fruit juices…etc. Pulse techniques such as differential pulse voltammetry, anodic/cathodic differential pulse voltammetry, stripping voltammetry, hydrodynamic linear sweep voltammetry, and amperometry are used for the quantification Electropolymerization, drop-casting, bulk modification, and covalent modification using biocompatible and new-generation materials for modification of the electrodes. Developing electrocatalysts for redox reactions and studying charge transfer kinetics by electrochemical impedance study. Study of the behavior of the modified electrodes in the surfactant medium using different electrochemical techniques.	2023 J Saurab Jain
10	Chemistry	Dr Sunita Rajamani	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Sustainable chemistry Waste management Green Chemistry Ionic liquids Biomass conversion Catalysis Electrocatalysis	2023 Geethanjali
11	Chemistry	Dr Nalini G Sundaram	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Design of Ceramic Nanomaterials Photocatalysts for Degradation of Organic Dyes and other pollutants Investigation of photo luminescent oxide nanoparticles for Theranostic (biological) applications and solid-state lighting Design and Development of Oxide nanoparticles and Nanocomposites for Gas Sensors Design of Ferroic materials	2024 Kavitha N A
12	Chemistry	Dr Pramod K M	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Renewable Energy Materials Solar Thermal Energy Storage Heat Transfer Fluids Nanofluids Organic Electronics Conjugated Polymers	2024 Jaseentha A
13	Chemistry	Dr Joyce Queeny D'souza	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Heterogeneous catalysis; Photocatalysis Acid-catalyzed organic transformations Photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants Photocatalytic synthesis of fine chemicals	2024 Nowsin Khatun Vicelia Gracinda Alphonse
14	Chemistry	Dr Vinutha V Salian	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Computer aided drug design Molecular docking Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry Design and synthesis of bioactive heterocyclic compounds Single crystal XRD studies Computational chemistry	2024 Tushar K P
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
15	Economics	Dr Nikhil Jha	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Labor Economics Spatial Economics Urban Economics	2023 Jessy O P
16	Economics	Dr Tulika Bhattacharya	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Development economics Urban economics Input-Output economics Health and gender studies Intimate partner violence and their mental health and quality of life	2024 Vanathi D
17	International Relations, Peace and Public Policy	Dr Karamala Areesh Kumar	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation International Relations Geopolitics Eurasia Foreign Policy and Resource Conflicts	2023 Edberg D Cheeran Abdul Rehman
School of Languages & Literatures
18	English	Ms Amrita Banerjee	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Postcolonial studies Victorian literature Children’s Literature Film and Cultural studies	2022 Nohosanu Natalia Rhutso Pradnya Waghule 2023 Anjali Mira De Maria Mascarenhas
19	English	Dr Arul Mani	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Curriculum Design Examination Reform World Literature Stylistics The Graphic Novel Long-Form Journalism Latin American Literature	2022 Aditi Ekka Calvin George Michael L Leena D Souza
20	English	Dr Cheriyan Alexander	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation British Literature and European/Russian Literature (in English and in translation) American Literature/American Studies Literature and Religion The Bible as Literature Literature and Ecology/Ecocriticism Indian Writing in English and in Translation Cultural Studies Fiction into Film	2022 Maria Delphina P Parul Batra Ramakanth S M Vijetha Kumar
21	English	Dr Etienne Rassendren	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation World literatures Cultural studies Critical theory South Asian studies Pluralism Other Religious Studies	2022 M Suriyaa Sreenidhi S Vimala Ct
22	Hindi	Dr Pathan Hasan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Hindi Fiction Contemporary Discourses Comparative Literature Translation Studies and Film Studies
23	Kannada	Dr Eraiah	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Critisism Modern kannada literature Folklore studies Comparitive studies Dalit Literature Feminism studies Culture studies, (Adivasi,) Inscriptions studies	2023 Sumana AS Rohith K
24	Kannada	Dr Hanumantharayappa SB	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Feminism Dalith Literature Folklore Modern Literature Translation Literature Study of tribes	2023 Sujatha A 2024 Kaverappa Hm
25	Kannada	Dr Poornima S	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Research on women’s study Phases of literature of women in Kannada literature Comparison on women’s literature and Kannada literature Have studied all the poems and writings of the poetesses of Kannada	2023 Parvathi M Mohandas Shetty 2024 Kavitha Swamy
26	English	Dr Lillykutty Abraham	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Ecocriticism Indian Literatures Folklore Ethnographic Research Women's Studies English Literature	2024 Gadha T R Neha Ann Jishnu
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
27	Political Science	Dr Neil Tannen Lincoln	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Distributive Politics Political Party & Regime Analysis Patronage Politics Electoral Politics Political Methodology Political Economy Religion & Politics Democracy Studies Policy Studies & Policy Sciences Quantitative Political Research	2024 Shah Daniya
28	Political Science	Dr Paul Newman	Associate Professor		2024 Abigail Chinzah Ryan James Wilson
School of Life Sciences
29	Botany	Dr Neelam Mishra	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Plant Genomics and Expression analysis Microbial Biotechnology Plant stress physiology and phytochemistry	2022 Nithya Folita Fernandes Triveni 2023 Mariam Khadeeja Ms
30	Botany	Dr A Stephen	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Botany and Ecology, Palynology. Plant Systematics Palynology and Palaeobotany Ecology and Disaster Management Biodiversity and Economic Botany Seed Ecophysiology and Pharmacology Biochemistry and Histochemistry Fungal biotechnology Water Quality Analysis	2023 Sheetal Gupta Wazen Longkumer
31	Botany	Dr N Praveen Kumar	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Mycology and Plant Pathology Fungal Biotechnology Morphological changes in wood decay and Wood anatomy Biochemical studies of lignin degrading enzymes and Enzymology Delignification of Cell wall in wood and Wood Pathology Bio-control of wood rotting Pathogens and Phytopathogens Molecular diversity studies, Phylogenetics and evolution of wood decay fungi Aeromycoflora Mycochemicals and Nutraceutical MycoNanotechnology	2022 Bharath Kumar S Tejashwini K
32	Biotechnology	Dr Anthony Johnson	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Stress Biotechnology, Omics approaches - Abiotic Stress Biotechnological approaches and Biotic stress biotechnological approaches Virology - Viral diagnostics, Viral Genomics, Edible Vaccines and Multivalent vaccines, Host-Virus interactions, Multi-omics approaches for Engineering virus resistance, CRISPR technologies for virus control Bioremediation - Host-symbiont relationships, Heavy metal remediation, PGPR microbes Bioinformatics - Genomics, Transcriptomics, Structural Modeling, Big data in biology, pathway engineering, etc. Human Disease biology-based omics approaches, pathway analysis, diagnostics, etc.	2024 Sharon Sunil Samuel
33	Zoology	Dr M Jayashankar	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Ecology: Biodiversity inventories; Climate change and biodiversity, Eco-ethology Wildlife Biology: Human-Animal Interface Conservation Biology: Ethnozoology, Cultural ecology	2024 Avinash Krishnan Yashwanth Gowda N M
34	Zoology	Dr Santosh Jagadeeshan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Evolutionary Biology - evolution of sex differences - from molecules to society Molecular evolution - genetics of speciation, evolution of sex and reproduction related genes, evolution of sex biased diseases Molecular ecology - evolution of form and function, genetics of adaptation Evolutionary medicine - applying evolutionary theory to human health and diseases	2024 Sruthy Jojy M Thanikodi
35	Environmental Science	Dr Mohd Yousuf Rather	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Nanotechnology for Environmental Applications Remediation Soil Carbon	2024 Chitra P
36	Microbiology	Dr Mohanraj Gunasekaran	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Microbiology and Biotechnology: Studies on Gut Microbiome, Bacterial Biofilms, Antimicrobial peptides, Cyanophages, Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from microbes and plants Computational works: CADD - Computer Aided Drug Designing	2024 Chandini Sivaganga
37	Botany	Dr M Raju	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Plant Tissue Culture Cell Culture Phytochemicals Characterization Bioactivity studies of Plant Secondary Metabolites Nutrition and Cancer	-
School of Physical Sciences
38	Physics	Dr Arun Varma Thampan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Astrophysics: Neutron Star Structure Astrophysics: Accreting Neutron Stars Astrophysics: Rotating Neutron Stars Astrophysics: Neutron Stars - Relativistic Effects	2024 Karan Amit Kinariwala
39	Physics	Dr Mohan A	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Thin films Multiple Quantum well structures Solar cell absorber materials: CIGS and CZTS Quantum dots Organic light emitting diodes Nanomaterials Nanostructures Supercapacitors Photocatalytic	2022 Anitha Clarin Ricky Wilfred
40	Physics	Dr G Vignesh	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Semiconductor Heterostructures Hybrid Nanostructures Coupled Nanostructures Impurity and Exciton States Excitons in nanostructures 2D Semiconductors and Heterostructures Excitons in 2D Materials Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting Nanomaterials for Photocatalysis	2024 Xavier Gama Chongdeiki M Thangeo
School of Social Work
41	Social Work	Dr S Rama Gokula Krishnan	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Community Development Mental Health Data Analysis using SPSS/PSPP Quality of Life Subjective Wellbeing	2023 Nirmal Joseph Das Alan Potter S
42	Social Work	Dr Shari Tess Mathew	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Mental Health: Mental health of the vulnerable populations - Mental Illness - Psychosocial therapies - Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Community Mental Health Clinical Social Work: Psychiatric Social Work - Medical Social Work - Psychosocial problems - Psychosocial Intervention models Social Work in various settings: Child and Adolescent Mental Health - School Mental Health - Family Therapy and Counselling - Geriatric Social Work - Palliative Care Life Skills Education - Substance Abuse / Addiction – Behavioural addiction - Suicide Prevention and Management	2024 Lakshmi Naveen Beulah Praisy V
School of Communication & Media Studies
43	School of Communication & Media Studies	Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ	Associate Professor	Area of Specialisation Film Studies, Indian Cinema Social Media, Social Media Discourses Journalism and Mass Communication Broadcasting, Community Radio Media Education	2023 Lazarus Lepcha Solomon Maria Donald 2024 Amritha Menon Godwin Emmanuel Sajan P K
School of Information Technology
45	Advanced Computing	Dr Sivakannan S	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Machine Learning Deep Learning Digital Image Processing RTL Design Artificial Intelligence Digital Signal Processing Natural Language Processing Big Data Analytics	2023 Timothy Paul L 2024 Hari Priya S
46	Advanced Computing	Dr Sanjay Dutta	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation -	2024 Prathiksha K J Veena Nirmala R