Rate My Professor Ashima Bagaria

Dr. Ashima Bagaria is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Manipal University Jaipur, an institution under the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, where she has been associated since 2014. Currently serving as Associate Dean of the School of Physical and Biological Sciences within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Architecture (FoSTA), she previously held the position of Head of the Department of Physics from October 2020 to December 2024. Dr. Bagaria holds a PhD from the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, complemented by M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees. With more than 17 years of research and teaching experience, her postdoctoral research was conducted at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, Connecticut, USA; Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA; and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. During her PhD, she received JRF and SRF fellowships from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Dr. Bagaria's research interests focus on structural biophysics. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals of international repute, including Nature Structural Biology, and she has presented more than 50 research papers at conferences in India and abroad. Key publications include "Self-assembly of a dipeptide-containing conformationally restricted dehydrophenylalanine residue to form ordered nanotubes" (Advanced Materials, 2007), "Structure-function analysis and insights into the reduced toxicity of Abrus precatorius agglutinin I in relation to abrin" (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2006), "Catalytic Mechanism and Three-Dimensional Structure of Adenine Deaminase" (Biochemistry, 2011), and more recent works such as "Advancements in CO₂ conversion technologies: a comprehensive review on catalyst design strategies for high-performance CO₂ methanation" (Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2025) and "MoS2 nanoflower-Indocyanine green composite for multimodal imaging-guided combined photothermal and photodynamic therapy" (Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2024). She has been honored with fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA), and Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR, France), as well as the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Scientist Award, DST Women Scientist award, and Young Investigator award from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India). Dr. Bagaria is an associate member of the Indian Academy of Physical Sciences (IAPS) and an editorial member of Vijnan-Sandhan, the IAPS newsletter. She has also completed externally funded research projects.