PhD Students
Shantanu Sen
Joined from July 2018
M.Tech. , IIT Kanpur
M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Assam University
Fellowship: GATE
Email: ssen@iitk.ac.in
Rakhi Bormon
Joined from July 2018
M.Sc. in Chemistry, NIT Silchar
Fellowship: DST INSPIRE
Email: rakhib@iitk.ac.in
Ankita Jaiswal
Joined from July 2018
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, DDU Gorakhpur
Fellowship: CSIR-SRF
Email: ankitaj@iitk.ac.in
Suchita Paul
Joined from July 2018
M.Sc., IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Fellowship: CSIR
Joint PhD StudentIIT Kanpur - NYCU, Taiwan
Email: suchitap@iitk.ac.in
Geetanjali Singh
Joined from July 2021
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Fergusson College, Pune
Fellowship: PMRF
Joint PhD StudentIIT Kanpur - La Trobe, Melbourne
Email: geetas21@iitk.ac.in
Meenu Kumari
Joined from July 2022
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Central University of Punjab
Fellowship: CSIR-JRF
Joint PhD StudentIIT Kanpur - La Trobe, Melbourne
Email: meenu22@iitk.ac.in
Joined from July 2022
BS-MS in Chemistry, IISER Kolkata
Fellowship: PMRF
Email: sanatkmr22@iitk.ac.in
Mritunjay Rai
Joined from January 2023
M.Sc. in Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas Central University Bilaspur C.G.
Fellowship: Industry Sponsored
Email: mritunjayr22@iitk.ac.in
Arunima Das
Joined from January 2023
M.Sc. in Chemistry, NIT Jamshedpur
Fellowship: PMRF
Joint PhD StudentIIT Kanpur - La Trobe, Melbourne
Email: arunimad22@iitk.ac.in
Priya Srivastava
Joined from July 2023
M.Sc. in Chemistry, P.P.N. Degree College, Kanpur
Fellowship: GATE
Email: spriya23@iitk.ac.in
Rinu Jaisawal
Joined from July 2023
M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University
Fellowship: GATE
Email: rinuj23@iitk.ac.in
Eram Bano
Email: eram@iitk.ac.in
Post Docs and Inspire Faculties
Dr Rafat Ali
Joined from August 2017
M.Sc. in Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
PhD , CSIR Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
DST INSPIRE Faculty
Email: rafatali@iitk.ac.in
Dr Grace Kaul
Joined from February 2023
M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Ayodhya
PhD , CSIR Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Institute Post Doc Fellow
Email: gkaul@iitk.ac.in
Dr Akanksha Dohare
Joined from January 2023
M.Sc. in Chemistry: Joint Degree Programme from Jiwaji University, Gwalior - IIT Delhi
PhD , University of Tuebingen, Germany
Institute Post Doc Fellow
Email: akankshad@iitk.ac.in
Project Students
Laiba Noor
Joined from May 2023
Department of Chemistry, M.Sc.
B.Sc. in Chemistry, Institute of Science, BHU
Email: laibanoor22@iitk.ac.in
Vidhi Jain
Joined from December 2023
Department of Chemical Engineering, B.Tech
Email: vidhijain20@iitk.ac.in
PhD Alumni
Dr S. G. Srivatsan
Thesis Title: "Modeling prebiotic catalysis with adenylated templates: Kinetic characterization of assisted phosphate ester cleavage and oxygen insertion reactions" (Thesis was selected for IUPAC Young Chemist Award-2004)
Current Position: Professor, IISER Pune
Dr C. Madhavaiah
Thesis Title: Bioinspired peptide and nucleobase constructs as phosphatases, nucleases and disease models
Current Position: CEO, Startup company of API
Dr K. Krishna Prasad
Thesis Title: Synthetic peptide assemblies: Enforcing aggregation in bioinspired scaffolds
Dr C. S. Purohit
Thesis Title: Bioinspired paradigms for metal-nucleobase frameworks and catalysis
Current Position: Reader, NISER Bhubaneswar
Dr Surajit Ghosh
Thesis Title: Bioinspired peptide-based soft structures
Current Position: Professor, IIT Jodhpur
Dr K. B. Joshi
Thesis Title: Construction and morphological evaluation of ordered peptide assemblies
Current Position: Assistant Professor, HS Gour University, Sagar
Dr Nidhi Gour
Thesis Title: Mannose containing soft structures: Synthesis, characterization and applications
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Indrasheel University, Gandhinagar
Dr Ashutosh Kumar Mishra
Thesis Title: Scalable structural complexities in metal-adenine interactions
Current Position: Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad
Dr Yogita Gupta
Thesis Title: Introducing nucleobases as functional monomers in polymeric template design of new bioinspired catalytic reagents
Dr Jitendra Kumar
Thesis Title: Substituent driven metal-adenine assemblies
Current Position: Assistant Professor, MLK (PG) College, Balrampur
Dr Sudipta Mondal
Thesis Title: Tryptophan-based conjugates as versatile building blocks for soft structures
Current Position: Assistant Professor, NIT Durgapur
Dr Apurba Barman
Thesis Title: Synthetic approaches towards functionalized peptide-based soft structures
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Cotton University, Guwahati
Dr K. Vijay Krishna
Thesis Title: Self-assembly and optical properties of biotin and peptide conjugates
Current Position: Research Scientist, National University of Ireland, Galway
Dr Rajneesh Kumar Prajapati
Thesis Title: Structural complexities and reactivities in metal adenine systems
Current Position: Research Establishment Officer, IIT Kanpur
Dr Nagapradeep N
Thesis Title: Material aspects of guanine coordination polymers
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Sichuan University, China
Dr Venkatesh V
Thesis Title: Material and biological aspects of metal-purine derivatives
Current Position: Assistant Professor, IIT Roorkee
Dr Shruti Khanna
Thesis Title: Rare adenine tautomer platform: Structural chemistry and applications
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Amity University
Dr Narendra Kumar Mishra
Thesis Title: Peptide constructs for inhibition of insulin amyloidosis and as functional materials
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Balaram Mohapatra
Thesis Title: Structural frameworks and applications of unnatural fluorescent nucleobases
Current Position: Scientific Officer, IISER Berhampur, Odisha
Dr Gagandeep Kaur
Thesis Title: Ordered peptide-based assemblies as functional materials
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Howard University, USA
Dr Anisha Thomas
Thesis Title: Glycopeptides as building blocks for enzyme tunable soft structure
Current Position: Assistant Professor, VIT University, Vellore
Dr Astha Gupta
Thesis Title: Soft structures and applications of histidine-derived constructs
Current Position: Applications Scientist, Apollo Life Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dr Pratibha
Thesis Title: Biological and material aspects of metal-purine complexes
Current Position: INSPIRE Fellow, India
Dr Hilal Ahmed Pal
Thesis Title: Peptide constructs as sacrificial platforms for intracellular gasotransmitter delivery
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Government Degree College, Shopian, J&K
Dr Ilesha Avasthi
Thesis Title: Exploring material aspects of tunable purine-based coordination frameworks
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dr R Kamal Saravanan
Thesis Title: Metal-Purine Frameworks: Structures, surface and sensing
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, JNCASR, Bengaluru
Dr Swati Sharma
Thesis Title: Ultrashort peptides as biochemical mediators
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Narendra Singh
Thesis Title: Hydrogen sulfide responsive peptide Constructs for biological applications
Current Position: Senior Research Associate, Alvogen, Philadelphia, USA
Dr Apurva Panjla
Thesis Title: Therapeutic potential of short peptide conjugates as novel antibiotics and osteoinductive agents
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Blatvanik Center for Drug Discovery, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr Saurabh Joshi
Thesis Title: Multifaceted purine and catechol derivatives for functional applications
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Geneva, Switzerland