Faculty

NIAS Faculty is formed of scientists, technologists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, educationists and scholars from different disciplines and leadership positions. They being member of a School such as Humanities, Natural Sciences & Engineering or Social Sciences, include Professors, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, Emeritus Professors and Visiting Professors. NIAS also has a few Visiting Chaired Professorships which are offered for specific Programmes. This aside, NIAS has Adjunct Faculty who works with the core faculty. The Research work of the Faculty covers several multidisciplinary and fundamental areas of work.

Faculty

• School of Humanities
  
• Natural Sciences and Engineering
  
• School of Social Sciences
  

Visiting and Emeritus Professors

• Emeritus Professors
  
• Visiting Professors
  
• Visiting Chaired Professors

Adjunct Faculty

• Adjunct Faculty

Past Faculty

• Past Faculty

Faculty of School of Humanities

Sangeetha Menon Professor	Sharada Srinivasan Professor	Rajesh Kasturirangan Associate Professor	B. V. Sreekantan Visiting Professor

S. Settar Visiting Professor	S. Ranganathan Homi Bhabha Visiting Professor	Malavika Kapur Visiting Professor	M. G. Narasimhan Deputy Programme Coordinator

Past Faculty of School of Humanities

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

P. K. Shetty Professor	Anindya Sinha Professor	Dilip Ahuja Professor	Sindhu Radhakrishna Associate Professor

Janaki Balakrishnan Associate Professor	D. P. Sen Gupta Visiting Professor

Past Faculty of School of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP)

Rajaram Nagappa ISSSP Programme Head & Visiting Professor	M. Mayilvaganan ISSSP Assistant Professor	Arun Vishwanathan ISSSP Assistant Professor	Nabeel A. Mancheri ISSSP Assistant Professor

S. Chandrashekar ISSSP JRD Tata Visiting Professor	N. Ramani ISSSP Visiting Professor	Lalitha Sundaresan ISSSP Visiting Professor

Past Faculty of International Strategic and Security Studies Programme

Faculty of School of Social Sciences

Narendar Pani Professor	Carol Upadhya Professor	Anitha Kurup Professor	M. Amarjeet Singh Assistant Professor

Chidambaran Iyer Assistant Professor	Shivali Tukdeo Assistant Professor	S. S. Meenakshisundaram Visiting Professor	N. Shantha Mohan Visiting Professor

Past Faculty of School of Social Sciences

Emeritus Professors

R. Narasimha	K. Kasturirangan

Visiting Professors

B. V. Sreekantan Visiting Professor School of Humanities	S. Settar Visiting Professor School of Humanities	Malavika Kapur Visiting Professor School of Humanities	S. S. Meenakshisundaram Visiting Professor School of Social Sciences

D. P. Sen Gupta Visiting Professor School of Social Sciences	Rajaram Nagappa Visiting Professor International Strategic & Security Studies Programme	N. Ramani Visiting Professor International Strategic & Security Studies Programme	Lalitha Sundaresan Visiting Professor International Strategic & Security Studies Programme

Ambassador Saurabh Kumar Visiting Professor International Strategic and Security Studies Programme

Visiting Chaired Professors

Prof. S. Ranganathan Homi Bhabha Chair Visiting Professor School of Humanities	Prof. S. Chandrashekhar JRD Tata Chair Visiting Professor International Strategic and Security Studies Programme	Dr. S. Radhakrishnan  Chair Visiting Professor	Dr. Raja Ramanna Chair Visiting Professor

Past Occupants of Visiting Chaired Professorships

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Adjunct Faculty

Admiral Vijay Shankar International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	Dr. Jyoti Sharma School of Social Sciences Read CV	Prof. Subrata Ghoshroy International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	Dr. Baldev Raj School of Humanities Read CV

Vice Admiral R N Ganesh International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	L.V.Krishnan International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	Prof. Bhupendra Jasani International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	Kota Harinarayana School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

Mukund Kadursrinivas Rao School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Vijay Chandru School of Humanities Read CV	P. Soma International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	Prof. K P Vijayalakshmi International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV

K.R. Sridhara Murthi School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Meera Natampally School of Humanities Read CV	Dr. R R Navalgund School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Gautam Sen School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

Dr. M D Madhusudhan School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. Michael A Huffman School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. (Mrs) Charmalie Nahallage School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. H N Kumara School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

Dr. Kim R McConkey School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. Mewa Singh School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr Sitabhra Sinha School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Air Cmde (Retd) T Chand School of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Shri P M Heblikar International Strategic and Security Studies programme Read CV	Prof. M V Srinivasa Gowda School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. M. R. Hegde School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr Nayeem Ullah Khan School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

Prof. B Ashok School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. Nithin Nagaraj School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. Swapna Bist Joshi School of Social Sciences Read CV	Prof. C R L Murthy School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

Dr. V Siddhartha School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr. Manabrata Guha School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Prof. B N Karkera School of Humanities Read CV	Prof. Mario Rutten School of Social Sciences Read CV

Dr M B Hiremath School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Suresh P Prabhu School of Social Sciences Read CV	Dr Manjari Jain School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr Soumya Prasad School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

S Gopal School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr Catherine Turner School of Humanities Read CV	Dr A K Sinha School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV	Dr Veena Rao School of Humanities Read CV

Dr K Manorama School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Read CV

Past Adjunct Faculty