Raja Shunmugam
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: sraja [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Drug Delivery, Self-Assembled Super Structures, Sensors
Academic Background:
- Ph. D. (Polymer Chemistry), Madras (IIT), 2004
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2014 - 2017)
- Assistant Professor, IISER-Kolkata (2008 - 2013)
- Research Associate, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2003 - 2008)
Awards and Honors:
- IISER Kolkata Nominee for the Innovation Club Meeting from Rashtrapati Bhavan (2016)
- 6th National Innovation Award under the Polymeric Material Category from Honerable Central Minister for Petrochemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India (2016)
- Ramanujan Fellowship from DST, India (2010)
Selected Publications:
- Mane, Shivshankar R and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Homopolymer into Unique Superstructures"." ACS Macro Letters, 3, 44-50
- B, Sourav; N, Vijaykameswara Rao; Sarkar, Santu and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012."Unusual emission from norbornene derived phosphonate molecule – A Sensor for FeIII in Aqueous Environment." Nanoscale, 4, 6962-6966
- M, Shivshankar R; N, Vijaykameswara Rao,; C., Koushik,; D., Himadri; N., Soma; K., Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Amphiphilic Homopolymer Vesicles as Unique Nano-Carriers for Cancer Therapy" ." Macromolecules, 45, 8037-8042
- M, Shivshankar R; N., Vijaykameswara Rao; C., Koushik; D., Himadri; N,, Soma; K., Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012."“A Unique Polymeric Nano-carrier for Anti-tuberculosis Therapy” ." J. Mater. Chem., , 22, 19639
- M, Shivshankar R; N, Vijayakameswara Rao and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Reversible pH- and Lipid-Sensitive Vesicles from Amphiphilic Norbornene-Derived Thiobarbiturate Homopolymers"." ACS Macro Letters, 1, 482-488
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