PhD guides and Research Interests

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 | NITIE - Mumbai

Research Interests: B2B Marketing, Consumer Buying Behavior, Branding, Marketing Strategy, Industrial Buying Behavior

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

OPEN POSITIONS

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: Plant Sciences, Biofertilizers, Nanotechnology, Sustainability Studies with a focus on Sustainable Agriculture and Food production, Heavy metals, Ecosystem and Environmental Health, and Citizen Science

Prof. Maya Dodd
PhD - Modern Thought & Literature | Stanford University - USA

Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Digital Archives, Digital Cultures, Food Studies

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. 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.

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

Prof. Anup Tripathi
PhD | Tata Institute of Social Sciences - Mumbai

Research Interests: Housing, Homelessness, Urban Poor