Spring-2024-25 Ph.D Admissions

Ph.D Admissions Spring 2024-2025

Dear Candidate,
Thank you for your interest in our department. We look forward to welcoming a fresh batch of highly motivated and competent Ph. D. students. Let us take you through the modus operandi of our Ph. D. admission.

A shortlist of applicants will be prepared based on their CSIR/UGC fellowship, GATE score, M. Tech. degree etc. Only those candidates will be considered for interview, who fulfil educational qualifications advertised in the list mentioned above.
Shortlisted candidates will be provided with a Google form in which they need to choose one of the interview committees (out of Organic, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry).
Candidates are requested to make these choices after due consideration.
Offline interviews will be conducted for shortlisted candidates. Interview dates: 5^th, 6^th and 7^th December 2024, Venue: LH 301, LT301- LT306 .
Duration of each interview will be 15-20 minutes. Candidates will be asked questions to test their knowledge of subject and ascertain their suitability for a Ph. D. position.
Selected candidates will be informed by Academic office of our institute.
Please note that assignment of supervisor will be done only after the students join the programme. While efforts will be made to assign first choice of supervisors to the maximum possible extent, it is often not possible, in case the number of applicants for certain groups is more than the number of projects available.

All the best to the candidates.

Ph. D. Admission Committee, Department of Chemistry | IIT Bombay
[Admission related queries may please be sent to admission@chem.iitb.ac.in]

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Ph.D Research Topics

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Serial No.	Faculty	Research Topics	Educational Requirement

1.	Prof. Ramaswamy Murugavel rmv@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting by Carbon Nitride-Metal Phosphate.	- M.Sc. In Chemistry

2.	Prof. M. Ravikanth ravikanth@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Regular Topic: Synthesis of Pyrrole based near infrared emissive fluorophores.	- M.Sc. in Chemistry

3.	Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh pghosh@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Transition Metal Complexes of Super bulky heteroatom stabilized singlet carbene.	- M.Sc. In Chemistry.

4.	Prof. Gopalan Rajaraman rajaraman@chem.iitb.ac.in	- AI/ML Driven Search for New Magnetic Materials.	- M.Sc. In Chemistry

5.	Prof. Maheswaran Shanmugham eswar@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Spin crossover. complexes for sustainable energy harvesting and molecular electronics. - Enhancing the Magnetoelectric coupling in discrete molecular complexes	- M.Sc. In Chemistry

6.	Prof. Debabrata Maiti dmaiti@chem.iitb.ac.in	- SW 1--Industry Sponsored PhD Position 1. Development of flow technology for cross-electrophile coupling . - SW 2--Industry Sponsored PhD Position 2. Development of methodologies for agrochemicals synthesis .	- M.Sc. In Chemistry. - M.Sc. In Chemistry

7.	Prof. Arnab Dutta arnabdutta@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Development of bio-inspired synthetic catalyst for CO2 activation (regular).	- M.Sc. Chemistry.

8.	Prof. Sanjog Nagarkar sanjog.na@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Covalent Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Catalysis	- M.Sc. In Chemistry/Materials

9.	Prof. Deepti Kalsi deeptikalsi@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Heterogeneous Photocatalysis (Regular)	- M.Sc.

10.	Prof. Dasari Venkatakrishnarao dasarikrishna@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Regular Research Topic 1: 2D Optoelectronics and Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors - Research Topic 2: Molecular Electronics.	- M.Sc in (electro)chemistry, physics and materials science. Btech in chemical or electrical engineering.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Serial No.	Faculty	Research Topics	Educational Requirement

1.	Prof. Anil Kumar anilkumar@iitb.ac.in	- Continuous Process Intensification	- MSc in Chemistry or BS/MS in Chemical Engineering

2.	Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan kpk@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Total synthesis of Natural Products - Copper catalysed multicomponent reactions to pharmaceutically interesting N-Heterocycles.	- M.Sc. in Chemistry. - M.Sc. in Chemistry.

3.	Prof. Pradeepkumar P.I. pradeep@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Project : Biochemical characterization and structure-based derivatization of AMS-based compounds against Plasmodial PheRS, TAP(1 position) M.Sc. chemistry - Synthesis and evaluation of ligands targeting nucleic acids structures	- M.Sc. in Chemistry

4.	Prof. Santosh Gharpure sjgharpure@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Project: Vinyl bis-sulfides in the synthesis of carbo- and heterocyclic compounds (RD/0123-SERB000-036) TAP (1 position) M.Sc. Chemistry - Synthesis of cyclic ethers and azacycles. Position: SW - Synthesis of fragrant molecules. Position: SW	- M.Sc. in Chemistry

5.	Prof. Nandita Madhavan nanditam@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Signal-activated water and ion-transporters	- Chemistry or Biotech background

6.	Prof. Venkateswarlu Yarlagadda venky@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Development of durable antibacterials and antibiotic resistance inhibitors	- M. Sc. in Chemistry with a background of Biology in bachelor’s degree (Or) M. Sc. in Microbiology / Molecular biology / Biotechnology / Biochemistry / Any life science discipline

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Serial No.	Faculty	Research Topics	Educational Requirement

1.	Prof. Anindya Datta anindya@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Exciton dynamics in semiconductor nanocrytals.	- M. Sc. Chemistry.

2.	Prof. Arindam Chowdhury arindam@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy to probe structure-dynamics of biomolecules, or to probe opto-electronic properties of nanomaterials.	- Requirement - BSc in Chemistry or Physics with Mathematics as subsidiary subject; MSc (or MTech) in Chemistry, Physics, Biosciences, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science.

3.	Prof. Ruchi Anand ruchi@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Cryo Electron microscopy and biochemical studies of antibiotic resistant determinants.	- M.Sc. in Biosciences, Biochemistry, Life Sciences/ Biotechnology as well B.Tech Bioengineering .

4.	Prof. Rajarshi Chakrabarti rajarshi@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Theory and simulation of the Dynamics of soft active colloids .	- M. Sc. in Chemistry/Physics; Must have studied Mathematics in B. Sc.

5.	Prof. C. Subramaniam csubbu@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Nanoscale materials for thermal energy storage - new concept of Thermal batteries.	- M.Sc. (chemistry, physics, materials), M.Tech (energy, chemical, mechancial, materials science). Should be motivated to learn new concepts. Experience in instrumentation and metal fabrication is advantage but not compulsory.

6.	Prof. Rahul Maitra rmaitra@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Machine Learning guided Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry .	- M.Sc./M.Tech. in Physics/Chemistry/Computer Science/Mathematics.

7.	Prof. Amber Jain amberj@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Quantum simulations in molecular wires .	- BS/M.Sc in chemistry or physics.

8.	Prof. Ishita Sengupta ishita@chem.iitb.ac.in	- Regular - NMR spectroscopy to study protein dynamics.	- M.Sc in Physical Chemistry, must have Maths and Quantum mechanics in bachelors and/or masters, no biology background needed, project will involve coding .