Alumni

The following students have Graduated and Obtained their Ph.D. from PPISR and have been placed in various positions across the world.

Dr. Swetha Sandesh

Present Position: CEO, Niranthara Scientific Solutions Pvt Ltd
Ph.D. Topic: Novel eco-friendly catalysts for biodiesel synthesis and conversion of byproduct glycerol into value-added products
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. A. B. Halgeri
Co-Guide: Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 10th December 2011
Date of Award: 09th May 2015

Present Position: Senior Research Scientist, Prayoga, Bengaluru
Ph.D. Topic: Design of solid acid catalysts for Prins reaction and toluene methylation
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag
Co-Guide: Dr. A. B. Halgeri
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 10th December 2011
Date of Award: 28th April 2015
Dr. Janardhan H L

Present Position: Computation Scientist, Simreka, Bengaluru, India
Ph.D. Topic: Studies on pore modified zeolite catalysts for aromatization and aromatic substitution reactions
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. A. B. Halgeri
Co-Guide: Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 10th December 2011
Date of Award: 10th June, 2015
Dr. Swetha S.M

Present Position: Assistant Professor, RV College of Engineering Bengaluru, India
Ph.D. Topic: Investigation of smart oxide nanomaterials for photoluminescent and photocatalytic applications
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Nalini Sundaram
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 4th November 2011
Date of Award: 05th June 2015
Dr. Srinidhi Raghavan

Present Position: Assistant Professor, BMS College of Engineering Bengaluru, India
Ph.D. Topic: Carbonaceous, Nanostructured Metal Oxides Obtained From Metalorganic Precursors through Inert-Ambient, Sealed-Tube Pyrolysis
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Nalini Sundaram
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 4th November 2011
Date of Award: 30th March 2015
Dr. Suhas D. P.

Present Position: Asst. Professor, St. Joseph College, Bengaluru
Ph.D. Topic: Polymeric Composite Membranes for Pervaporation Separation of Alcohol-Water Binary Mixtures
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. A. V. Raghu
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 4th November 2011
Date of Award: 05th March 2015
Dr. Omkar Srikrishna

Present Position: Quantum Architecture Developer, ORCA Computing, Canada
Ph.D. Topic: Quantum Noise due to Dissipative and Non-dissipative Interaction with a Squeezed Environment, Quantum Error Correcting Codes and Characterizing Quantum Dynamics
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. R. Srikanth
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 4th November 2011
Date of Award: 11th July 2015
Dr. Satish L.

Present Position: Scientist D, Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Mysuru
Ph.D. Topic: Studies on bioactive compounds from endophytic fungi of Eucalyptus and Simarouba plants
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ananda K
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 16th November 2011
Date of Award: 14th May 2015
Dr. Pavithra N.

Present Position: Assistant Professor, Centre for Functional Genomics & Bioinformatics, Transdisciplinary University, Bengaluru
Ph.D. Topic: Screening and characterization of alpha amylase inhibitors and aldose reductase inhibitors from endophytic fungi of medicinal plants
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ananda K
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 16th November 2011
Date of Award: 12th June 2015
Dr. Aravinda S.

Present Position: Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati
Ph.D. Topic: Axiomatic aspects of contextuality and nonlocality in the area of quantum foundations
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. R. Srikanth
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 25th February 2012
Date of Award: June 2017
Dr. Manjunath P.

Present Position: Research Officer,IOCL R&D Centre, Faridabad, India
Ph.D. Topic: Designing heterogeneous catalysts for the conversion of glycerol and furfural to value added chemicals
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag
Guide: Dr. Sanjeev P. Maradur
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 10th December 2013
Date of Award: 21st March 2018
Dr. Pavitha G. C.

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of IOWA, USA
Ph.D. Topic: Structural studies of purine phosphoribosyl transferases from pathogenic bacteria
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Udupi A. Ramagopal
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 2013
Date of Award: 2019
Dr. Pradeep Shanbhog

Present Position: R&D Manger, Powerstorm Technology Pvt Ltd. Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Ph.D. Topic: Semiconducting Oxide Nanoparticles for Photocatalysis and Photoluminescence applications
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Nalini Sundaram
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 2013
Date of Award: 27th September 2019
Dr. Vasudeva Rao

Present Position:F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Belgium
Ph.D. Topic: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their nanohybrids for heterogeneous Catalysis
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Suresh Babu K
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 3rd December 2016
Date of Award: 12th March 2020
Dr. Kavitha K. Navada

Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Vitaliz Biosciences Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru
Ph.D. Topic: Studies on effect of radiation on laccase producing endophytic fungi and applications of fungal laccase
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ananda K
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 04th July 2015
Date of Award: 20th July 2020

Dr. Archana K. M.

Present Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical Engineering Research Institute, Seoul
Ph.D. Topic: Nanomaterials for PL electrochemical & theranostic applications
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Nalini Sundaram
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 2016
Date of Award: 28th November 2020
Dr. Sathyapal R. C.

Present Position: Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ph.D. Topic: Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous polymers & their application in adsorption and catalysis
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Sanjeev Maradur
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 11th July 2015
Date of Award: 16th February 2021
Dr. U. Shrikant

Present Position: Assistant Professor, RV University, Bengaluru

Ph.D. Topic: Aspects of quantum non-Markovianity in quantum information processing
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. R. Srikanth
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 17th June 2017
Date of Award: 11th October 2021
Dr. Kempanna K.

Present Position: Scientific Officer, State Forensic Science Laboratory, Bengaluru, India

Ph.D. Topic: Designing Functionalized Mesoporous Materials for Catalytic Conversion of Biomass Platform Chemicals to Value Added Products
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Sanjeev Maradur
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 30th December 2016
Date of Award: 16th November 2021
Dr. Nagendra Kulal

Present Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Refining & Advanced Chemicals, King Fahd University of Petroleum Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Ph.D. Topic: Metal oxide based acid-basebifunctional catalysts for chemical fixationof C0 2 via carbonylation reactions
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 2016
Date of Award: 2021
Dr. Swetha Lankipalli

Present Position: Assistant Professor, National Forensic Science University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Ph.D. Topic: Structure guided modification ofB7-1 and B7-2 for potential use immunotherapy and novel insights onB7-2 oligomerization
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Udupi A. Ramagopal
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 2015
Date of Award: 10th January 2022
Dr. Rahul S

Present Position: Assistant Professor, PES University, Bengaluru

Ph.D. Topic: Studies on edge states for Hermitian and non-Hermitian topological systems
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Sujit Sarkar
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 17th June 2017
Date of Award: 5th August 2022
Dr. Marilyn D’Mello
Present Position: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)- Post Doctoral Researcher, CIQUS-University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Ph.D. Topic: Design and Development of Metal-Organic Frameworks based Materials for Gas Sensing Applications
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ganapati V. Shanbhag and Dr. Suresh Babu K
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 2nd December 2017
Date of Award: 30th September 2022
Dr. Kirana M. P
Present Position: Scientific Officer, Vitaliz Biosciences Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, India

Ph.D. Topic: Studies on alpha-glucosidase inhibitors isolated from medicinal plants and their endophytic fungi
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ananda K
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 31 December 2016
Date of Award: 29 June 2022
Dr. Chethana Aranthady

Present Position: Research Associate, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
Ph.D. Topic: Design of Semiconductor Oxide Nanomaterials for Efficient Gas Sensors
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Nalini G Sundaram
Co-Guide: Dr. Ganapati Shanbhag
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 6th October 2018
Date of Award: 6th March 2023
Dr. Shrilakshmi Rao

Present Position:Senior Scientist (LoopLab Bio, Vienna, Austria)
Ph.D. Topic: Rational modification of insulin driven by evolutionary studies and chemistry for therapeutic applications
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ananda
Co-Guide: Dr. Udupi A Ramagopal
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 31st December 2016
Date of Award: 19th May 2023
Dr. Vinod N Rao

Present Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of York, UK.
Ph.D. Topic: Feasibility study of practical counterfactual quantum cryptography
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. R. Srikanth
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 18th Dec, 2018
Date of Award: 27th July, 2023
Dr. Vaishnavi B J

Ph.D. Topic: Designing novel catalysts for conversion of biomass derivatives furfuryl alcohol and levulinic acid into value-added chemicals
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Ganapati V. Shanbhag
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 31-12-2018
Date of Award: 14-7-2023
Present Position:
Dr. Kartik Y. R.

Present Position: Postdoctoral fellow, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ph.D. Topic: Geometry, Criticality and Topological transitions in Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems.
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Sujith Sarkar
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 23-04-2018
Date of Award: 03-07-2023
Dr. Shankar V. Kundapura

Present Position: University Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna.
Ph.D. Topic: Rational modification of immune checkpoint receptors of PD-1 pathway for cancer immunotherapy.
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education.
Guide: Dr. Udupi A. Ramagopal
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 11th February 2017
Date of Award: 29th June 2023
Dr. Ranjith Kumar R.

Present Position: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Hokkaido Univ., Japan.
Ph.D. Topic: Topological Phase Transition at Quantum Criticality in One Dimensional Topological Systems.
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Guide: Dr. Sujith Sarkar
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 17-06-2017
Date of Award: 08-09-2023
Dr. Bhavana Kulkarni

Ph.D. Topic: Studies on Metal-Organic frameworks (MOFs) catalysis for valorization of biomass-derived chemicals.
Ph.D. from: Manipal Academy of Higher Education.
Guide: Dr. Sanjeev Maradur
Date of Registration for Ph.D.: 29th October 2020
Date of Award: 25th September 2024
Present Position: