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The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram, located in Kerala, India, is a prestigious institution dedicated to fostering excellence in scientific education and research. Established as one of the premier IISERs in 2008, it offers integrated undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various scientific disciplines, encouraging a holistic approach to learning. IISER Thiruvananthapuram is renowned for its world-class faculty, state-of-the-art research facilities, and interdisciplinary environment that promotes collaboration and innovation. The institute is actively involved in cutting-edge research across fields like biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and more, contributing significantly to advancements in scientific knowledge. With its commitment to nurturing young minds and pushing the boundaries of scientific exploration, IISER Thiruvananthapuram continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of scientific research and education in India.

SL. No:	Facilities	Equipments
1	CIF (Central Instrumentation Facility)	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR) - Solid State 500MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR) - 500 MHz & 700 MHz Electrospray Ionization - Time Of Flight (ESI-TOF) Mass Spectrometer Liquid Chromatography - High Resolution (LC-HRMS) Mass Spectrometer Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization - Time Of Flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometer Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer Powder X-Ray Diffractometer Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS & WDS Scanning Electron Microscope with Electron Beam Lithography and EDS Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Transmission Electron Microscope - 120 KV Transmission Electron Microscope - 300 KV (HR) with EDS & EELS X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
2	School of Chemistry- Central instrumentation lab, Chemistry	Liquid Chromatography - Low Resolution (LC-LRMS) Mass Spectrometer Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectrometer (ECD) Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC) Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) CHNS Analyzer Microwave Reactor Zeta Potential Analyser and Dynamic Light Scattering Measurement Atomic Force Microscope and Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM-AFM) Confocal Microscope Fluorescence Microscope Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) System Lab RAM HR Raman Spectrometer
3	School of Biology	X-ray crystallography facility Imaging facility : with high-end microscopes Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) Tissue culture facilities Ultra Centrifuges Plant growth chambers FPLCs and HPLC Surface Plasmon Resonance Real-time PCRs Biophysical tools (CD, fluorimeter, ITC) Computational facility Ecology Field Station and research plot at Vithura Campus Animal House
4	School of Physics	Raman Spectrometer FT-IR UV-Vis Fluorimeter Optical Microscope Profilometer Vector Network Analyser Planetary Ball Mill Multichannel Potentiostat Keithley 4200 Parameter Analyzer QTH Measurement System Fully Automated Volumetric Gas Analyzer AFM DC RF Magnetron Sputtering system Thermal Evaporator Pulsed Laser Deposition system Solid State NMR

SL. No:	Centres	Research Areas
1	Center for High-Performance Computing
2	Centre for Advanced Materials Research with International Engagement (CAMRIE)	Condensed Matter Physics- Spintronics, Quantum Materials Energy Materials and Devices-Materials development for next generation batteries, Advanced materials for electro-/photocatalytic solar fuel generation, Thermoelectric Materials Biomaterials and Bioengineering- Biodegradable Drug Carrier Systems, Antimicrobial Coatings, Bone Tissue Engineering Computational Materials Science- Computational electrodynamics, First-principles approaches Materials Modelling- Intermolecular force field development, Plasmonics Supramolecular Chemistry- DNA Nanotechnology, Cancer Therapy Opto-Electronic Materials- Semiconductor quantum dots and plasmonics, Time-resolved single molecule/particle and transient spectroscopy Smart and Adaptive Materials- Chemical and BioSensors devices

SL. No:	Research Departments	Research Areas
1	School of Biology	INFECTION & IMMUNITY- Host-pathogen Interaction, Structural Molecular Biology, Cell Signalling and Immunity, Immunology and Cell Biology of Parasitic Infections, Virology CELLULAR & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY- Plant Molecular Biology, Genome Stability, Structural Molecular Biology, Chromatin Organization, Molecular Biology, Mammalian Cell Division and Signalling, Molecular Genetics BIOPHYSICS & BIOCHEMISTRY- Systems Biology, Structural Molecular Biology, Mammalian Cell Division and Signalling ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION- Evolutionary Ecology, Behavioural and Evolutionary ecology, Ecophysiology GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT- Chromatin Organization, Chronobiology, Developmental Biology, Stem cells and Development, Plant Molecular Biology, Genome Stability NEUROBIOLOGY- Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
2	School of Chemistry	Development of new synthetic strategies, C–H activations and methodologies en route to the natural products. Asymmetric metal and organocatalysis Organic materials chemistry, organic photochemistry. Mechanistic organic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. Photochemistry & photophysics Light-matter interactions at nanoscale Activation and Functionalization of Small Molecules by Main GroupElement Compounds. Main Group Element Compounds as Precursors for Materials. Highly Planar pi-conjugated Macrocycles and Fused Porphyrinoids Functional Near-IR Absorbing Chromophores for Solar Energy Harvesting and Design of New Hole Transporting Materials for Solar Cells Development of methodology and Natural Product SynthesisSupramolecular Chemistry: gels, topochemical reactions, weak interactionsIntervention in cell signaling through Chemical Biology. Biophysical Chemistry and Photophysics of Biomolecules Artificial Photosynthesis/Femtosecond Spectroscopy Asymmetric catalysis. Cross-Coupling Reactions. Design and synthesis of DNA based nanostructures using the design principles of supramolecular chemistry to address the challenges in biology, nanotechnology and material science. structure-property correlation of quantum-sized metal nanoclusters, Cluster-assemblies and inorganic-organic hybrid structures for the possible application in magnetism, luminescence, optical and heterogeneous catalysis. Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry and Theoretical Spectroscopy Luminescence in metal organic frameworks and nano composites Electrochemical energy and porous materials for gas seperation Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Organic Molecules EExcited State Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions of Biomolecules NMR Structural studies of small molecules and Bio-molecules Structure determination of membrane proteins Natural product and total synthesis. Insights into the life processes involving transition metals Organometallic chemistry of first-row transition metals Chemical conversions for sustainable energy utilizations Developing non-platinum group metal-based electro-catalysts for the cathodic reduction of oxygen in low temperature fuel cells. Kinetic and mechanistic analysis of the oxygen reduction reaction on non-platinum group metal containing carbon catalysts.
3	School of Mathematics	Algebra and Number Theory- Group theory, Homological Algebra, Commutative Algebra; Geometric aspects of Syzygies; Preserver problems on Spaces of Matrices; Representation theory of Finite-dimensional Algebras; Algebraic, Analytic and Combinatorial Number theory; Elliptic curves, Modular forms and Galois representations. Analysis- Analysis of Julia sets of holomorphic maps; Ergodic theory of simultaneous actions; Dynamics of holomorphic correspondences; Control, existence and uniqueness results of nonlinear PDE’s; Nonlinear functional analysis, Semi-group theory, Monotone operator theory; Harmonic analysis, Sampling and reconstruction; Stochastic analysis, Stochastic PDE’s; Dynamics of nonhomogeneous products of positive operators, Nonlinear analysis; Topological and Variational methods in PDE, Operator Theory on Hilbert spaces of Analytic functions Applicable Mathematics- Control of fluid flow problem in particular phase field models; Finite element methods for differential equations; Graph theory, Combinatorial PDE's, Spectral graph theory, Distance matrices on graphs; Navier-Stokes theory, Liquid crystals, Ferromagnetism; Wavelet analysis, Applied cryptography; Positivity classes of matrices arising in optimization problems; Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws and thier numerical solutions; Computational fluid dynamics; Lyapunov exponents and other invariants in structurally stable dynamical systems; Computational mathematics; Math-Bio. Geometry- Geometry of curves, surfaces and moduli spaces of vector bundles on them; Geometry of Gerbes, stacks and Lie groupoids; Geometry of semi-group action generated by finitely many maps; Stochastic geometric PDE's. Topology- Topological properties of moduli space of vector bundles; Grothendieck topology; Topological dynamical systems.
4	School of Physics	Energy (Expt)- Thermoelectrics, Solar Cells, Storage Light-Matter interaction- Plasmonics, Ultrafast Processes, Non-Linear Optics, Quantum Information theory, Bio-medical Gravitational Physics (Theory)- Cosmology, String Theory Condensed Matter (Expt)- Superconductors, Magnetism, Electron transport & devices, Nano Many body systems (Theory)- Topological Insulator, Statistical Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics

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