VIT Research Team
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Principal Investigator
Dr. Vibin Ipe Thomas
Assistant professor
email: vibin@cmscollege.ac.in
Team members
Christina Mariam Mathew
PhD student
email: mailtocmm@gmail.com
Chrisitna has completed her undergraduate in chemistry from Womens Christian College Chennai and her masters in chemistry from School of Chemical Science, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. She qualified NET in 2015 and is currently wokring as Assistant Professor in Baselius College. Her research area includes the utilization of Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) and post Hartree- Fock Methods such as Complete Active Space Self Consistent Field Method (CASSCF) and Multi Reference Configuration Interaction Method (MRCI) to describe the excited state properties of computationally designed new chromophores.She joined the research group in January 2019
Rajalakshmi C
PhD student
email: rajalakshmi@cmscollege.ac.in
Rajalakshmi has completed her undergraduate and masters in Chemistry from St. Thomas College Kozhencherry, ( Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam). She is a UGC Senior Research Fellow. Rajalakshmi is carrying out computational mechanistic studies of first-row transition metal-catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions.
Lydia Elizabeth Mathews
email: lydiathengumpalli@gmail.com
She has completed her Bachelors in Chemistry from Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla (Mahatma Gandhi University) and her masters in Chemistry from CMS College, Kottayam. She is currently carrying out the computational investigation on the mechanism of Zn-catalyzed Ullmann type cross- coupling reactions.
Shilpa Sarah Mathew
email: shilpasm870@gmail.com
Shilpa completed her Master’s programme in Chemistry from CMS College, Kottayam. During her postgraduate studies, she did an internship at IISc Bangalore. She is currently working on Mechanistic study of iron catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.
MSc Project Students
John B Kottooran
John is doing his M. Sc in chemistry at CMS College Kottayam. Currently, he is working in M.Sc project on the mechanistic study of transition metal catalyzed organic reactions for heterocyclic synthesis.
Ann Miriam Abraham
Ann is currently doing her undergraduate in chemistry at CMS College Kottayam. She is a recipient of KSHEC Scholarship. She is working her B.Sc project on the mechanistic study of transition metal catalyzed organic reactions for heterocyclic synthesis.
Binuja varghese
She is doing her M. Sc in chemistry at CMS College Kottayam. She is a recipient of INSPIRE Scholarship offered by the Dept. of Science & Tech., Govt. of India.
Anandhu Gopan
Anandhu is currently pursuing my Master’s programme in Chemistry (2021-present) at CMS College, Kottayam. He did his bachelors from St Thomas college palai. He is carrying out computational mechanistic studies of copper catalyzed cross coupling reaction
BSc Project Students
Amruthavarshini
Amruthavarshini is doing her B. Sc in chemistry at CMS College Kottayam. Currently, she is working his B.Sc project on the mechanistic study of transition metal catalyzed organic reactions for heterocyclic synthesis.
Hanna
She is doing her B. Sc in chemistry at CMS College Kottayam.
Alumni
Ph.D Students
Simitha S
Post.Doc at University of Prague, Czech Republic (2024)
Rehin Sulay
Post.Doc at Southern Methodist University, USA (2023)
Post Graduate Students
Krishnaveni G
Ph.D at North Carrolina State University, USA (2024)
Parvathi Santhoshkumar
Ph.D at University of Illinois,Chicago, USA (2024)
Abhirami Vijayakumar
Ph.D at Basel University, Switzerland (2024)
Devika Mohan
Ph.D at University of Pittsburgh, USA (2024)
Vivek Vijay
Associate Analyst and Software Developer, ZIFO, Chennai
Jintumol Mathew
Ph.D student at University of Illinois, USA (2023)
Lakshmi Anil
Ph.D student at National Institute of Scientific Research Energy Material Science and Telecommunications,Canada, USA (2023)
Praseetha Prakash
Ph.D. student at Case Western University, USA (2023)
Sudheesh D
Ph.D. student at Michigan Technical University, USA (2022)
Aiswarya P A
Ph.D student at Ohio State University, USA (2022)
Aswathy Jayachandran
Ph.D. student at Kent State University, USA (2022)
Stephy Jose
Ph.D. student at University of Science and Technology, South Korea (2022)
Shinto M Francis
Ph.D student at Clemson University, USA (2022)
Aleesha Mariya George
Ph.D. student at Cornell University, USA (2021)
Anandhu Krishnan
Ph.D. student at Michigan Technical University, USA (2021)
Abhijith Kumar
Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA (2021)
Anjali Radhakrishnan
Ph.D. student at University of Kansas, USA (2021)
Jibin S S
Ph.D. student at North Carolina University, USA (2021)
Athulya Simon
Ph.D. student at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India (2020)
Linta Maruthurethu Biju
Ph.D. student at University of Illinois, USA (2019)
Ann Varghese
Ph.D. student at Michigan Technical University, USA (2019)
Irin. P. Tom
Ph.D. student at University of Illinois, USA (2019)
Under Graduate Students
Nandu Krishna R
Ph.D student at Marquette University, USA (2023)
Carolin Anna Joy
Ph.D. student at Marquette University, USA (2019)
