Prof. Manikandan Paranjothy completed Ph.D. in 2009 from the department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, under the supervision of Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy. He carried out three years of post-doctoral work in the research group of Prof. William L. Hase, at Texas Tech University, USA. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur in 2013 as Assistant Professor and became Associate Professor in 2019 and Professor in 2023. His research interests include chemical reaction dynamics, direct dynamics simulations of organic reactions, and reactions at heterogeneous interfaces. His research group is actively involved in developing machine learning based potential energy surfaces for performing reaction dynamics calculations.  

Our broad research area is Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. In our research group, we use Quantum Chemistry and Classical Trajectory methods to study interesting chemical reactions occurring in Interstellar, Combustion, and Atmospheric Chemistry. Specific research topics are: