
The Department of Chemistry is one of the first Departments to function after the Indian Institute of Technology Madras was founded in 1959.
The Department began with one Professor and one lecturer as faculty members, to conduct classes for the undergraduate engineering programme of the Institute.
Department of Chemistry welcomes Dr. Satyajit Roy. He is joining the department as an Assistant Professor
Prof. Pradeep has received ‘Panjab University Vigyan Ratna’ award
Prof. Ramesh has been invited to join editorial board of the journal Chemical Physics
Prof. Raman has received Annamalai & Santhi Rajendran Early Career Chair Professorship from IIT Madras
Prof. Pradeep has been selected for the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar award instituted by the Government of India for the year 2025.
Department of Chemistry welcomes Dr. Debotra Sarkar. He is joining the department as an Assistant Professor
Prof. Beeraiah has been selected to receive CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2026.
Department of Chemistry welcomes Dr. Yogesh G. Shelke. He is joining the department as an Assistant Professor
Prof. Pradeep has received ‘Panjab University Vigyan Ratna’ award
Prof. Ramesh has been invited to join editorial board of the journal Chemical Physics
Prof. Raman has received Annamalai & Santhi Rajendran Early Career Chair Professorship from IIT Madras
Prof. Pradeep has been selected for the prestigious Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar award instituted by the Government of India for the year 2025.
Department of Chemistry welcomes Dr. Debotra Sarkar. He is joining the department as an Assistant Professor
Prof. Beeraiah has been selected to receive CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2026.
Department of Chemistry welcomes Dr. Yogesh G. Shelke. He is joining the department as an Assistant Professor
Please visit the Research Admission Portal for the details about the PhD admission: https://research.iitm.ac.in/
Professor Sushanta Dattagupta, Sister Nivedita University, New Town, Kolkata, will deliver a guest lecture titled “Vibrational Dephasing of a Morse Oscillator” on 29th October, 2025 at 4.30 PM in CB-310.
Prof. Andrew Orr-Ewing, FRS from the University of Bristol,will deliver a guest lecture titled “The future’s bright for photochemistry” on 28th October, 2025 at 3.00 PM in CB-310.
Dr. Deepak Badgurjar, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Physical Science Division, The University of Chicago will deliver a guest lecture titled “Engineering Microenvironments at Electrochemical Interfaces and Light-Driven Charge Transfer” on 14th October, 2025 at 4.00 PM in CB-310.
Dr. Neha Vithani, Scientific Software Developer, Openeye Cadence Molecular Sciences, USA will deliver a guest lecture titled “Empowering Drug Discovery Using Protein Dynamics and Machine Learning” on 9th October, 2025 at 3.00 PM in CB-310.
Dr. Bhuvaneswari, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, will deliver a guest lecture titled “Trajectory to Industry Career – Publication to product” on 24th September, 2025 at 3.00 PM in CB-310.
Prof. Debabrata Maiti, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, will deliver a guest lecture titled “Unlocking new chemical space via selective catalysis” on 12th August, 2025 at 4.00 PM in CB-310.
Dr. Bharathwaj Satyamoorthy, Department of Chemistry, IISER-Bhopal, will deliver a guest lecture titled “Conformational Characterization of a Frustrated G-rich DNA Sequence” on 2nd June, 2025 at 3.00 PM in CB-310.