Chemistry Staff Profile

Dr. Meera A.P has 15 years of teaching and 13 years of research experience. She obtained her Master’s degree in Applied Chemistry from Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin in the year 2003. She qualified UGC-NET and GATE in the same year. She obtained her Ph.D. from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam in the area of polymer nanocomposites. She was a visiting research fellow at Université de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), Lorient, France. She also worked as a visiting research fellow at University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa under the joint Indo-South African collaborative project of Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. She, along with her research students, has been honored with five Best Paper Awards at prestigious national and international conferences. She has 23 international publications in various Scopus indexed journals and authored five book chapters published by Taylor and Francis, Jenny Stanford, Bentham Science, Springer and River Publishers. She also served as an editor of a book published by Taylor and Francis (CRC Press). She is an approved research guide of the University of Kerala and two students have been awarded Ph.D. under her guidance. Her research interests lie in the area of green synthesis and applications of nanomaterials, graphene based nanomaterials, biodegradable polymers, polymer based nanocomposites etc. She has supervised about 15 master’s projects. She serves as the reviewer of many international journals and has presented research papers in many national and international conferences.