Professor Manickam Jayakannan

Manickam Jayakannan (JK) has obtained his PhD degree from Indian institute of science, Bangalore, India (2000) and undertook his post-doctoral studies at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (2000-2001). He worked as a polymer scientist at JFWTC General Electric R&D (2002), Bangalore and as a scientist at CSIR-NIIST (2003-2007) Trivandrum, prior to joining IISERPune in 2007 as Assistant Professor to embark the journey of building the new academic institute. He is currently continuing as a Professor in the chemistry department.