Management
Prof. Amarpreet Singh Ghura
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | IIM Calcutta
Research Interests: Corporate Entrepreneurship, Family managed business, Strategy
Prof. Khyati Jagani
FPM – Marketing | MICA – Ahmedabad
Research Interests: Social Media Influencers, Virtual Influencers, Underdog Branding, Digital Marketing, Post-Pandemic Residual Emotions, Personality, Ad Avoidance, Dark Side of Virtual Influencers, Metaverse - Digital Twin, NFT
Prof. Aakash Kamble
PhD - Marketing Management | Savitribai Phule Pune University
Research Interests: Consumer Interactions with Technology, Customer Experiences and Engagement, Consumer Research, Emerging Markets
Prof. Gitesh Chavan
PhD - Marketing | Indian Institute of Management Mumbai
Research Interests: B2B Marketing, Consumer Buying Behavior, Branding, Industrial Buying Behavior, Blockchain, Technology & Sustainable Marketing, Metaverse
Prof. Jaslene Bawa
FPM - Finance & Accounting | IIM - Raipur
Research Interests: Banking, EMH, ESG, Equity Stock market, Mutual Funds, NBFCs, Fin Tech
Prof. Smita Chaudhry
FPM - Organizational Behavior | IIM – Calcutta
Research Interests: Employee Engagement/Experience, Personality, Generation Z, Positive Psychology, Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Prof. Preetha Menon
PhD – Management | IIT- Madras
Research Interests: Health behaviours, Consumer and Technology, Sonic Branding
Prof. Devendra Jain
PhD - Finance | The University of the South Pacific - Suva, Fiji
Research Interests: Financial Markets, Macro-financial risks, Climate Risk Financing, Ethical Strategies in Finance, Sustainable Finance
Prof. Neha Yadav
Fellow - Marketing | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: Conversational AI Systems, Travel and Tourism, Sustainable Consumption, Technology Adoption
Prof. Hoshiar Mal
PhD - Marketing Management | Savitribai Phule Pune University
Research Interests: Corporate Sustainability Performance, Performance Measurement, Sales Performance, Sustainable Development, Corporate Governance, Green Purchase, and Marketing Strategy
Prof. Neethu Mohammed
PhD - Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management | IIT, Madras
Research Interests: Pro-social Behaviors at Work, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Hiding at Workplace, New Ways of Working.
Prof. Sajith Narayanan
PhD - Management | SoA University - Odisha
Research Interests: Corporate Social Responsibility, Brand Purpose, Consumer Activism, Influencer Marketing, Digital Marketing
Economics
Prof. Barun Kumar Thakur
FPM – Environmental Economics | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Management, Development Economics, Water Resource Economics
Prof. Debasis Rooj
PhD – Economics | Northern Illinois University - USA
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Development Economics
Prof. Joyita Roy Chowdhury
PhD - Economics | University of Utah - USA
Research Interests: Development Economics and Policy, Experiments in Economics, Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction
Prof. Reshmi Sengupta
PhD - Economics | Northern Illinois University - USA
Research Interests: Development Economics (particularly focusing on health), Health Economics, Econometrics - Health Financing, Child Health, Maternal Health, Food Security, The Economics of Aging, Mental Health, Agricultural Economics
Prof. Sunil Rajpal
PhD – Economics | Central University - Gujarat
Research Interests: Health Economics, Healthcare Financing, Public Health Policies, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Ageing, Poverty
Prof. Yashobanta Parida
PhD – Economics | Centre for International Trade & Development, JNU, - New Delhi
Research Interests: Political Economy of Natural Disasters, Applied International Trade, Firm Productivity, and Economics of Tourism
Prof. Yugank Goyal
PhD – Law and Economics | Erasmus University Rotterdam - Netherlands
Research Interests: Institutional Economics, Governance, Public Policy, Culture, Regulation, Higher Education, District development
Psychology
Prof. Aparna Shankar
PhD - Psychosocial Predictors of Maintenance of Health Behaviours | University of Leeds – UK
Research Interests: Ageing, Social relationships, Loneliness, Health behaviours, Health inequalities, Caregiving
Prof. Gayatri Kotbagi
PhD – Clinical Psychology | Université Paris Nanterre
Research Interests: Behavioral addictions, Exercise Psychology, Community mental health interventions
Not accepting PhD applications in 2025
Prof. Ketoki Mazumdar
PhD – Social Sciences (Psychology) | TISS, Mumbai
Research Interests: Gender and mental health, Maternal mental health, Mothering practices across cultures, Cross-cultural Psychology, Well-being, Meaning in life, Self-compassion, Qualitative explorations of psychological constructs.
Not accepting PhD applications in 2025
Prof. Sucharita Belavadi
PhD - Psychology | Claremont Graduate University - California
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Group Behaviour, Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, Social Identity, Intergroup Communication, Group Norms and Normative Structures, Leadership as a Group Process, Group Polarization
Prof. Sairaj Patki
PhD - Psychology | Savitribai Phule Pune University
Research Interests: Cyberpsychology, Social Media, Personality, Organizational Behavior, Emotional Intelligence
Prof. Garima Rajan
PhD - Psychology | IIT - Delhi
Research Interests: Cognitive and Positive Psychological Benefits of Yoga-Meditation, Mental Health and Student Well-Being, Workplace Well-Being, Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs), Psycholinguistics
Prof. Moitrayee Das
PhD - Management and Labour Studies | Tata Institute of Social Sciences - Mumbai
Research Interests: Sleep, Mental health, Gender, Culture, Impact of sleep at work, Organizational Psychology, Work-life balance, Mental health at work and beyond, Cross-cultural Psychology
Prof. Ninad Patwardhan
PhD | Psychology from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Mumbai)
Research Interests: Autobiographical Memory, Social Identity, Health and Well-being
Computing and Data Science
Prof. Kaushik Gopalan
PhD - Electrical Engineering (Satellite Remote Sensing) | University of Central Florida, USA
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Data Science, Machine Learning
Prof. Swapnajit Chakraborti
FPM - Information Systems | Indian Institute of Management - Indore
Research Interests: Predictive Analytics, Text Mining, Data Mining, E-commerce, Marketing Analytics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Prof. Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay
PhD - Computer Science | Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research Interests: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Augmented And Virtual Reality, Applied Machine Learning, Computational Studies On Images, Computational Studies On Migration
Prof. Renu Dhadwal
PhD - Industrial Mathematics | Technical University of Kaiserslautern - Germany
Research Interests: Physics Informed Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Differential Equations, Numerical simulations of ODEs and PDEs, Polymer processes modelling
Prof. Balaji Kalluri
PhD - Building Sciences | National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests: Design-thinking and Innovation Management in Complex Socio-Technical Systems (e.g. Smart Building, Smart Cities, e-Governance)
Environmental Studies
Prof. Andrea Phillott
PhD | Central Queensland University - Australia
Research Interests: Wildlife conservation, Human-wildlife interactions, Marine megafauna, Sea Turtles
Prof. Prasad Pathak
PhD – Geography | University of North Carolina - USA
Research Interests: Environmental Issues (GIS applications for wildlife conservation, human-animal conflict, corridor mapping and development), Urban Studies (urban heat island and action plan, urban - social justice/injustice), Remote Sensing Image Processing - AI/ML, Cellular Automata, Walkability Studies Using AI/ML
Prof. Anuradha Batabyal
Ph.D. – Ecology | IISc, Bangalore
Research Interests: Stress; Ecology; Behaviour; Environment; Cognition; Memory; Physiology
Prof. Jayant Pande
PhD - Physics | Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Erlangen, Germany
Research Interests: Complex Systems, Population Dynamics, Micro swimming, Active Matter, Physics of Collective Animal Behaviour, Theoretical Ecology
Prof. Shweta Rana
PhD - Microbiology | Punjab Agricultural University - Ludhiana
Research Interests: Sustainable Food production with focus on Agriculture, Horticulture and Floriculture, Microbial Biofertilizers and Nanoparticles, Environmental Health- Sustainable Waste (organic and inorganic) disposal, Citizen Science approaches for sustainable food production and waste disposal
Humanities
Prof. Maya Dodd
PhD - Modern Thought & Literature | Stanford University - USA
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Digital Archives, Digital Cultures, Food Studies
Not accepting PhD applications in 2025
Prof. Pankaj Jain
PhD in Religious Studies | The University of Iowa - USA
Research Interests: Environmental Studies, India Studies, Religious Studies, Film Studies, Jain Studies, Hindu Studies
Prof. Ashutosh Potdar
PhD - English Literature | Shivaji University - Kolhapur
Research Interests: Drama Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Indian Literature, Narratology, Science Fiction
Prof. Michael Hatcher
PhD - Philosophy | University of Southern - California, USA
Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophical Theology
Prof. Mochish KS
PhD - Media and Cultural Studies | Tata Institute of Social Sciences - Mumbai
Research Interests: Political Communication, Press Freedom, Media and Development, Media Histories, Culture and Communication
Prof. Ramna Walia
PhD - Media Studies | University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests: Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Remakes, Bombay cinema, Bollywood, Film Technology, Media Networks, Digital technology and Cinema
Prof. Kunal Ray
PhD - Literature | Savitribai Phule Pune University
Research Interests: Modern Indian Literature, Translation Studies, Film Studies, Music Studies, Contemporary Art & Criticism
Prof. Viraj Shah
PhD - Archeology | Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University) - Pune
Research Interests: Ancient Indian History, Medieval Indian History, Indian Archaeology, Religious Studies, Myths, Ancient Indian Art, Architecture & Iconography, Medieval Indian Epigraphic Studies, Pilgrimage Studies, Landscape Archaeology
Prof. Rajitha Venugopal
PhD - English Literature | Jamia Millia Islamia - New Delhi
Research Interests: Environmental Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, Indian Writing in English, Cultural Studies
Prof. Kedar Kulkarni
PhD - Literature | University of California - USA
Research Interests: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Slavery, Caste, and Gender in South Asia, Aspects of Intellectual History and Theory, Book History, Historical Poetics, and Genre
Prof. Sasikiran R M
PhD - Communication | University of Hyderabad - Hyderabad
Research Interests: Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Media History
Sociology
Prof. Tannistha Samanta
PhD - Sociology | University of Maryland - USA
Research Interests: Aging Studies/Social Gerontology, Demographic Research, Sociology Of Health, Family Sociology, Quantitative Methods In Social Sciences, Reproductive Health, Longitudinal Ageing Study In India (LASI)/ India Human Development Survey (IHDS) And Cross-National Comparisons With Harmonious Datasets.
Not accepting PhD applications in 2025
Prof. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri
PhD - Global and Sociocultural Studies | Florida International University, USA
Research Interests: Gender And Migration/Mobilities, Visual Sociology, Sociological Perspectives Of Digital Spaces, Historical Sociology, Technology And Society, Digital Humanities
Prof. Shamsher Singh
PhD – Sociology | Indian Statistical Institute - University of Calcutta – Kolkata
Research Interests: Rural and agrarian society, Rural development, Poverty, Migration, Labour, Housing, Social stratification, Caste and Class, Social welfare, Sanitation, Political sociology
Not accepting PhD applications in 2025
Prof. Anup Tripathi
PhD | Tata Institute of Social Sciences - Mumbai
Research Interests: Housing, Homelessness, Urban Poor