Dr Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, IFMR GSB, has authored an article on Cost Management for manufacturing SMEs – A Framework. The same has been published in MSME Tidbits, the bi-monthly flagship journal of the MSME & Startup Promotion Board of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI), in their June edition.
Dr Swayam Sampura Panigrahi, Assistant Professor, Operations and Area Chair – Operations, IFMR GSB, has been awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research fellow at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Dr Panigrahi’s research will uncover gross human rights violations. Her objective is to develop a generic framework to address these challenges through the exchange of best practices across the US and India.
A research article by Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor and Discipline Coordinator, Physics, SIAS titled Normal state and superconducting state properties of high entropy Ta0.2Nb0.2V0.2Ti0.2X0.2 (X = Zr and Hf) has been published in Physical Review Materials (“Scopus Q1” journal). In this publication, Dr Chakrabarty is one of the three corresponding authors. In this work, the team has reported a detailed theoretical and experimental investigation of high-entropy alloy superconductors Ta0.2Nb0.2V0.2Ti0.2X0.2 (X = Zr and Hf). The study unveils that both the materials crystallise in a body-centered-cubic structure (space group: Im-3m) and exhibit bulk superconductivity with a superconducting onset temperature of 5 K for X = Hf and 6.19 K for X = Zr sample. The detailed analysis, including magnetisation, resistivity, heat capacity measurements, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicates moderately coupled isotropic s-wave superconductivity in these materials. With the dynamical stability of these alloys, excellent normal state metallic nature, high microhardness, and high upper critical field; these samples emerge as potential candidates for future applications in superconducting devices.
Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies SIAS offered an international exploratory workshop on ‘Introduction to Climate Law in India’ at the University of Tuebingen on 30 May 2025. He also presented a talk titled ‘What Comes Next? Exploring Systemic Change Possibilities in India following the Declaration of a Constitutional Climate Right’ at the Workshop on “Climate Litigation in India, Germany and Europe, and the Potential for Mutual Learning” organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Regensburg on 2 and 3 June 2025.
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.
