Dr Randhir Rai, Visiting Faculty, Chemistry, SIAS recently published a research article titled Wastewater treatment using waste cuprous oxide: A circular economy approach towards green and sustainable laboratory waste management in the journal Sustainable Chemistry Oneworld.
Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has penned a review of Professor Bishnu Mohapatra’s latest volume of poetry, Rain Incarnations. Published in The Scroll, the article is titled The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May. The poems have been translated from Odia by Aparna Uppaluri.
Professor Bishnu is Professor, Politics, SIAS and Director – Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS presented a paper on 30 May 2025, titled ‘Yeh Prithvi Rahegi: Planetarity in the Non-Anglophone Imaginary’. The paper was part of a 3-day panel titled Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World at the Annual Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference. Dr John’s paper analysed how contemporary Hindi poets have drawn on environmental and climate change discourse to craft new metaphors and figures in poetry. Through a close reading of the figure of Prithvi, she argued that both scientific ideas of planetary habitability and older cosmological and affective senses of the Earth will continue to mediate cultural knowledge of climate change.
Dr Vijaya C, Assistant Professor, Finance, IFMR GSB presented a research paper titled ‘Dynamic Connectedness of Volatility among ESG ETFs, ESG Indices And Cap-Weighted Indices’ at the Global Banking and Finance Association (GLOBAFA) Conference, held from 30-31 May 2025 at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary. The paper examines the dynamic connectedness between ESG ETFs and market indices in developed and emerging markets. It also determines how the nature of the market and the theme of ESG ETFs impact volatility persistence.
The inaugural annual Global Banking and Finance Association (GLOBAFA) Conference brought together experts, scholars, and practitioners from around the world to share their insights and research findings in the field of banking and finance. The conference was held in collaboration with the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and was hosted by Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary.
Prerona Jana, MBA Cohort of 2024 – 26, IFMR GSB, has co-authored a paper titled Subtractive proteomics unravel the potency of D-alanine-D-alanine ligase as the drug target for Burkholderia pseudomallei, which has been published in ScienceDirect.
Professor Romila Thapar, Professor Kumkum Roy and Dr Preeti Gulati,Discipline Coordinator – History and Assistant Professor, History, SIAS have co-authored the book Women Writing History: Three Generations published by Zubaan Books. Three historians from three generations reflecting on their lives and their engagement with one of the most demanding, and most crucial, disciplines of our times.
A research paper co-authored by Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS titled Bridging Climate Science, Policy, and Communities: Collaborative Pathways for Climate Resilience in the Indo-Pacific has been published in Frontiers in Climate, Volume 7-2025. This study was performed under the aegis of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)’s “My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity” that aims to develop and mainstream a ‘bottom-up’ approach to regional climate risk.
A research paper co-authored by Dr Praveen Bhagawan M, Associate Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance and Area Chair – Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB titled, Intensity of Exploitation-Exploration Innovation Strategies and Credit Ratings, has been published in Economic Modelling journal (“A” category journal as per ABDC list with an Impact Factor = 4.2 & CiteScore= 8).
Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an article titled Study of rotational temperatures with a multi-wavelength photometer from the Indian equatorial station Tirunelveli published recently in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. This is a validation paper of an instrument the team developed at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. In this paper, the authors show that they could successfully measure temperatures from the upper mesosphere around 87 km. The results are validated through comparison with NASA’s SABER/TIMED satellite observations and other ground based airglow imaging observations.
Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SIAS and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP, were instructors at the inaugural IMSc Summer Science Writing workshop held at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, from 12 – 16 May 2025. The workshop focused on how to read technical papers, write about mathematical sciences in technical and popular genres, and prepare scientific illustrations. Anusheela Chatterjee, Scientific Officer at TIFR Hyderabad, and Dr Shakti Menon, Researcher at IMSc Chennai, were the other instructors.