Advances in Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis for Hydrogen Production

Prof R Geetha Balakrishna obtained her Ph D in 2005 and since then has gone through various stages of teaching and research in her career including working at National University of Singapore, University of Notre Dame, USA, IRCELYON, Catalysis lab, France and also at JNCASR. She is presently the Director of a leading research Centre called "Centre for Nano and Material Sciences", under Jain University. For more than two decades she has worked in bridging 'materials and energy' research and has contributed 199 research papers, four patents and guided 13 students leading to Doctoral and 06 students leading to Post Doctoral degrees. Her h index is 37 with citations of more than 5000. She has served as member of many renowned professional bodies and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Geetha is a founder and CEO of a spin off company called Greenchem Nano Pvt Ltd. She is the recipient of CRSI Medal, MRSI medal, CRS Silver Star, Dr Kalpana Chawla State Award, The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award -2021 and Fulbright Nehru award for Academic and Professional Excellence. She is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Energy Letters and ACS Applied Engineering Materials.


Dr. Shwetharani R is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Centre for Nano and Material Sciences at Jain Deemed to be University. Dr. Shwetha holds a PhD in Chemistry (Material Sciences) from Jain Deemed to be University (2016). She completed her postdoctoral stint at Shinshu University at Japan (2019-2020) and has 7 years of experience in academia. She is a recipient of JAUW international fellowship from Japan and also received SERB-TARE project to conduct research at IISc, Bangalore (2020-2023). She also received research funding from Jain Deemed to be University. Her research interests include preparation and property tuning of semiconductor based nanomaterials, 2D materials MoS2, MoSe2, perovskite oxynitride/oxysulfide, MPX3 materials for H2/O2 evolution (Photocatalytic/ Electrocatalytic) and also perovskite QDs property modification (CsPbX3), with a focus on renewable hydrogen generation and high PLQY perovskite QDs for sensing. Currently, she has published around 41 papers in international journals, 5 book chapters, 23 conference papers and one patent.


Dr. Theerthagiri Jayaraman is currently working as a Brain Pool Fellow at Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea. Dr. Theerthagiri worked as Scientist-C at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed to be University). He completed his Ph.D Degree in the Department of Chemistry, Thiruvalluvar University in March, 2017. His current research is focused on the development of electrocatalysts for energy applications, hydrogen evolution reaction, and catalysis for energy and environmental remediations. Dr. Theerthagiri is an Editorial Board member in Bioengineered, and Science of Advanced Materials journals, and Associate Editor in IET Nanobiotechnology and Chemical Papers.