Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.
The Academy’s intention is to organize research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.
Seven key research themes have been identified:
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Research Themes
Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Colin Caprani
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Jaydipta Ghosh
- Balaji Ramakrishnan
Project Number
IMURA0478
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Structural studies on lanthanide complexes with amino acids and peptides
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Glen Deacon
- David Turner
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Harkesh B. Singh
Project Number
IMURA0299
Project Status
Student completed
Rajiv Kumar
Nanostructured Alloys for Corrosion Resistance
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Raman Singh
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- V.S Raja
- Smrutiranjan Parida
Project Number
IMURA0637
Project Status
Candidate Required
In search of innovative models of justice to respond to sexualviolence
Research Themes
Humanities and Social Sciences & Management
Monash University Supervisor
- Bebe Loff
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Satish Agnihotri
Project Number
IMURA0791
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Graphene Coating for Remarkable Corrosion Resistance: Mechanistic Investigation into Degradation and Durability
Research Themes
Infrastructure Engineering, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Raman Singh
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- C. Subramaniam
Project Number
IMURA0787
Project Status
Monica Upadhyay
Finding cues for metabolism inside giant virus particles – Are giant viruses ‘alive’?
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Gregory Moseley
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Kiran Kondabagil
- Kiran Kondabagil
Project Number
IMURA0769
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Understanding water-energy interactions and hydrologic partitioning in natural river basins
Research Themes
Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Marc Parlange
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Basudev Biswal
Research Themes
Health Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Zhaolin Chen
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Ajit Rajwade
Project Number
IMURA0784
Project Status
Candidate Required
Characterizing membrane mimetic biosensors: Towards cell free antibiotic drug screening
Research Themes
Health Sciences
Monash University Supervisor
- Mibel Aguilar
- John Lee
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Shobhna Kapoor
Project Number
IMURA0783
Project Status
Candidate Required
Design, Synthesis and Utility of the Nickel Complexes of N/O-functionalized N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes in Cross-Coupling Reactions and in Enantioselective Cyclopropanation Reactions
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Joel Hooper
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prasenjit Ghosh