Ph.D Admissions Spring 2025-2026



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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. Candidates are requested to make these choices after due consideration.
  4. Offline interviews will be conducted for shortlisted candidates.  Interview dates are 8th and 9th December 2025 . On 10th December, interview of sponsored Project candidates will take place.
  5. 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.
  6. Selected candidates will be informed by Academic office of our institute.
  7. 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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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    
Serial No.FacultyResearch TopicsEducational Requirement
    
1.Prof. Deepti Kalsi
deeptikalsi@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Harnessing Single-Atom Catalysts for Visible-Light-Driven Activation of Small Molecules - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
2.Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh
pghosh@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Transition metal complexes of hetroatom stabilized singlet carbene ligands for catalytic applications - M.Sc. Chemistry.
    
3.Prof. Gopalan Rajaraman
rajaraman@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - AI/ML approach to Novel Materials and Catalysis - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
4.Prof. M. Ravikanth
ravikanth@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Design and synthesis of anti aromatic porphyrinoids - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
5.Prof. Maheswaran Shanmugham
eswar@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Magneto/pyroelectric materials for sustainable energy harvesting
- M. Sc. Chemistry (general or Inorganic specialization)
    




ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    
Serial No.FacultyResearch TopicsEducational Requirement
    
1.Prof. Krishna P. Kaliappan
kpk@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
- Synthetic Utility of Sugar Derived Cyclic Nitrones		 - M.Sc. Chemistry.
- M.Sc. Chemistry.
    
2.Prof. Suvarn Kulkarni
suvarn@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Automated synthesis of rare sugar containing oligosaccharides - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
3.Prof. Rodney Fernandes
rfernand@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Stereoselective synthesis of acetogenin natural products
- Stereoselective synthesis of guaianolide natural products		 - M.Sc. Chemistry
- M.Sc. Chemistry
    
4.Prof. Chandra M.R. Volla
chandra.volla@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Regioselective C-H functionalization via Photocatalysis - M.Sc. Chemistry/ M.Pharm
    
5.Prof. Chidambar Kulkarni
chidambark@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Exploring the photophysical and assembly characteristics of persistent organic radicals - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
6.Prof. Nandita Madhavan
nanditam@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Soluble supports for peptide synthesis (Regular) - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
7.Prof. Santosh Gharpure
sjgharpure@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Stereoselective synthesis of cyclic ethers - 1 FA/TA & 2 candidates from BASF (SW category) - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
8.Prof. Venkateswarlu Yarlagadda
venky@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Discovery and development of broad-spectrum antibiotics - M.Sc. Chemistry/ Biochemistry/ Biotechnology with strong passion for medicinal chemistry/ drug discovery research
    
9.Prof. Satyadeep Waiba
swaiba@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Strategies for the Catalytic Carboxylation of Unactivated C–H Bonds
- Catalytic Enantioselective Functionalization of Alcohols		 - M.Sc. Chemistry
    
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
    
Serial No.FacultyResearch TopicsEducational Requirement
    
1.Prof. Rajarshi Chakrabarti
rajarshi@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Elucidating Chromatin Dynamics using theory and simulations - M.Sc. Chemistry (with Mathematics in B.Sc.) or M.Sc. in Physics
    
2.Prof. Ishita Sengupta
ishita@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- 19F NMR studies of in-vitro transcription - M.Sc. Chemistry/ Biophysics/ Biochemistry/ Biotechnology with Mathematics at the Bachelor's level
    
3.Prof. Arindam Chowdhury
arindam@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Semiconductor/Perovskite Nano-Crystals
- Single-Molecule FRET imaging to probe biomolecular structure and dynamics		 - BSc and MSc in Chemistry or Physics. Should have mathematics in BSc, and some basic knowledge of coding
- B.Sc. and M.Sc. Chemistry, Physics, Biomolecular Sciences, should have mathematics in B.Sc., and should have some experience in programming.
    
4.Prof. Rahul Maitra
rmaitra@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Quantum Computing for Drug Discovery and Materials Design - M.Sc. Physics/ Chemistry or M.Tech. in Quantum Technology/ Computer Science
    
5.Prof. C. Subramaniam
csubbu@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Designing materials for thermal storage and thermal batteries. - M.Sc. Chemistry, M.S./M.Tech Materials Science, polymer science, Chemical Engineering - Both in Physical and Inorganic divisions.
    
6.Prof. Achintya Kumar Dutta
achintya@chem.iitb.ac.in		 - Quantum Chemistry for Critical Mineral Separation (Regular) - M.Sc. Chemistry/Physics

    
7.Prof. Ruchi Anand
ruchi@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Cryo Electron microscopy and Biophysical Studies on Antibiotic Resistant Determinants from pathogenic bacteria - M.Sc. Chemistry/ Biochemistry/ Biotechnology/ Life Science / B.Tech Biotechnology
    
8.Prof. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
srini@chem.iitb.ac.in 		- Project Topic 1: TAP (DO/2024-INDS002): Interfacial phenomena in Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium-ion Batteries
- Project Topic 2: TAP (Spons/MT/10002116-9/2025): Carbon-Tin composite Anodes for Na-ion Batteries		 - M.Sc. Chemistry/ B.Tech/ M.Tech Chemical /Materials Engineering
    
9.Prof. Anil Kumar
anilkumar@iitb.ac.in 		- Project Topic 1: Nanoparticles via top-down approach
- Project Topic 2: Continuous Flow Process for controlled particle morphology and size		 - M.Sc. Chemistry
    

Department of Chemistry | IIT Bombay