Principal investigator

Dr. Ekambaram Balaraman

Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Chemistry, IISER Tirupati

Developing transition-metal catalytic systems for sustainable synthesis and molecular transformations

11 Ph.D. completed · 9 Ph.D. pursuing · 14 postdocs · 22 MSc students · 7 project fellows

Career

2022 - Present
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Chemistry, IISER Tirupati
2018 - 2022
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, IISER Tirupati
2013 - 2018
Senior Scientist (E-1)
Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune
2012 - 2013
Research Assistant Professor
SRM Research Institute, SRM University, Chennai

2008 - 2012
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL
Department of Organic Chemistry
2002 - 2008
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Thesis: Investigations on Organophosphonates and Modified BINOLs: Catalytic Hydrophosphonylation, Hydroamination, Asymmetric Reduction and Allylation of Unsaturated Systems (Mentor: Prof. K. C. Kumara Swamy)
2000 - 2002
Master of Science (Chemistry)
University of Madras (R.K.M. Vivekananda College, Chennai)
1997 - 2000
Bachelor of Science (Chemistry)
University of Madras (Aringer Anna Arts College, Cheyyar, Chennai)

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2026INSA Associate Fellowship (IAF) by the Indian National Science Academy
2023RSC-ChemComm’s Pioneering Investigators
2022Experienced Researcher Humboldt Research Fellowship (AvH)
2021 & 2022Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists of the World
2021MRSI Medal for contributions to Heterogeneous Catalysis
2020Swarnajayanti Fellowship from DST-SERB, Govt. of India
2020CRSI Bronze Medal
2020Elected Member of INYAS, INSA & National Academy of Sciences
2019-2020ACS’s Top 3% Highly Cited Authors from India
2019The Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association (APA) Young Scientist
2019Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2019Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS)
2019Top Peer Reviewer Award by Publons
2018AV Rama Rao (AVRA) Young Scientist Award
—Selected for DST Coffee Table Book '75 Scientists under 50 – Scientists shaping today's India'