Research

The faculty of St Josephs College consists of researchers of high repute both in the sciences and the social sciences. Most of the members of the faculty in all the departments hold Ph.D.’s and continue their research actively. Articles are regularly published in high-end journals.

A unique facet of research activities in the College is the inter-departmental initiatives for continued research. This has led to an inter-disciplinary approach by fusing knowledge streams of various disciplines in exciting ways.

The College has many major and minor research programs running actively at the moment and is a recognized Research Centre affiliated to Bangalore University. Presently there are 13 Ph.D. guides and 19 research scholars working under them. Faculty members have obtained their doctoral degrees from their research work carried out at prestigious institutes, such as IISc, IITs in India and in foreign universities as well.

Around 57 research papers in national and international journals have been published by faculty members in the last 5 years.

The following teachers of the College have research interest in a variety of subjects

1

Dr Richard Rego SJ
Communication

M.S. Communication, PGCDA,
MA (Film & Television Studies, UK), NET, Ph.D.

Films Studies, Qualitative & Quantitative approach to Journalism (newspaper/ TV/ Radio/ digital), Social Media, Digital Media & Education, Television Studies, Advertising, Community Radio.

2

Dr Swati Bandi
Communication

Transnational Media Studies; Documentary Studies; Feminist & Gender Studies.

3

Dr Sahana Sarkar
Communication

Cyber Violence; Digital Literacy; Online Privacy; Gender & Violence

4

Dr. Susan Mary Philip
Biotechnology

Gene Expression Regulation, Molecular Stress Responses in Plants

5

Dr. Grace Prabhakar
Biotechnology

Classical and Molecular Genetics, Plant Breeding, Immunology, Plant Biotechnology, Biostatistics

6

Mr. Madappa M. B.
Biotechnology

Genetic Conservation , Biotechnological Tools, Mushroom Culture Technologies, Entrepreneurship

7

Dr. Jacob Paul
Botany

Medical and Environmental Microbiology

8

Dr. Jayaram Reddy
Botany

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

9

Dr. Nagaraju N.
Chemistry

Heterogeneous Catalysis, Supercapacitors, Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Applications

10

Dr. Michael Rajamathi
Chemistry

Solid State Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Nanoscience

11

Dr. Melwin Colaco
Chemistry

Green Synthesis

12

Dr. Ronald J. Mascarenhas
Chemistry

Modified Electrodes, Electro-organic Reactions, Electroanalytical Techniques, Nanoparticles, Biosensors

13

Dr. Somasekhariah B.V.
Chemistry

Phytochemical and Biochemical Studies of Medicinal Plants.

14

Dr. Sandra Misquith
Chemistry

Enzymology, Lectin Chemistry, Anti-coagulants

15

Dr. Shanty Mathew
Chemistry

Heterogeneous Catalysis

16

Dr. Libi Thomas
Chemistry

Conducting Polymers

17

Dr. Joyce Q. D’ Souza
Chemistry

Heterogeneous Catalysis

18

Dr. Suhas
Chemistry

Nanotechnology for Tissue Engineering and Therapeutics

19

Ms. Banu M.
Computer Science

e-Wallet, Web Search Tools, Digital Currency and Cryptocurrency

20

Ms. Mrinmoyee B.
Computer Science

Genetic Programming

21

Dr. Subhashini Muthukrishnan
Economics

Higher Education, Environmental Economics, Labour and Health Economics

22

Informal Sector

23

Mr. Keshav Murthy
Economics

Agriculture, Agricultural Trade Aspects

24

Dr. Manojit Bhattacharya
Economics

Macroeconomics, Informal Credit Markets, Growth and Development

25

Dr. Priyanka Parmar
Economics

Conducting Polymers

26

Cultural Studies

27

Dr. Arul Mani
English

Literary Studies

28

Cultural Studies, Education

29

Dr. Syed Wajeed
Microbiology

Signal Transduction in Prokaryotes, Bioremediation and Antimicrobial Drugs and their Assay

30

Dr. Vanitha N.M.
Microbiology

Agricultural Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Food, Dairy and Industrial Microbiology, Bioinformatics

31

Ms. Jothy Williams
Microbiology

Agriculture Microbiology

32

Dr. Arun Varma Thampan
Physics

Neutron Stars, High Energy Astrophysics, General Theory of Relativity

33

Dr. Lora R. Goveas
Physics

Condensed Matter

34

Mr. Kiran Jeevan D.
Social Work

Rural and Urban Youth

35

Ms. Maria A.
Sociology

Street Vendors

36

Mr. Jayshankar
Zoology

Ethnozoology