Rate My Professor S Chandrasekhar

Dr. S. Chandirasekar serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Nanoscience and Technology at the PSG Institute of Advanced Studies in Coimbatore, leading the Functional Polymers and Nanophotonics Laboratory. He joined the institution as Assistant Professor in October 2022 and was promoted to Associate Professor in April 2025. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at several leading institutions: National Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras under Prof. Ashok Kumar Mishra from March 2017 to February 2019, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Anna University under Prof. M. Sarojadevi from March 2019 to February 2022, and Research Fellow at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, under Prof. Wei-Lung Tseng from January 2016 to December 2016. Earlier, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at C. Kandaswamy Naidu College for Men, Chennai, from June 2015 to June 2017 and from July 2009 to May 2015.

S. Chandirasekar earned his Ph.D. in Polymer Science from the University of Madras in 2015, with the thesis 'Bio-surfactant and bio-polymers templated fluorescent noble metal nanoclusters and nanoparticles for bioimaging and sensing applications,' supervised by Prof. N. Rajendiran. He also holds an M.Sc. in Polymer Science and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Madras and C. Kandaswamy Naidu College for Men, Chennai, respectively. His research specializations encompass atomically precise luminescent metal nanoclusters and biopolymeric micellar systems for drug delivery applications, including biosurfactant-templated fluorescent noble metal nanoclusters for in vitro and in vivo bioimaging and fluorometric sensing. Key publications include 'Facile Synthesis of Bile Salt Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles and Its Use in Colorimetric Detection of DNA' (J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011), 'Sodium Cholate Templated Blue Light Emitting Ag Subnanoclusters: In Vivo Toxicity and Imaging in Zebrafish Embryos' (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015), 'Biosurfactant Templated Quantum Sized Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for In Vivo Bioimaging in Zebrafish Embryos' (Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2016), 'A Gold Nanocluster-based Fluorescent Probe for Simultaneous pH and Temperature Sensing and Its Application to Cellular Imaging and Logic Gates' (Nanoscale, 2016), 'Synthesis of Gold nanoclusters-Loaded Lysozyme Nanoparticles for label-free Ratiometric Fluorescent pH Sensing' (J. Mater. Chem. B, 2019), and 'N-Cholyl D-Penicilamine Micelles Templated Red Light-Emitting Silver 2-Nanoclusters: Fluorometric Sensor for S Ions and Bioimaging Application Using Zebrafish model' (Langmuir, 2022).