DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Saumya Varghese
Assistant Professor
Research & Postgraduate Department of Chemistry
St.Joseph’s College, Devagiri
Calicut – 673 008, Kerala, India
Tel: +91 9847092157
E-mail: smyvp2000@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2009 – 2012): National Institute For Interdisciplinary Science And Technology Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research Trivandrum – 695 019 Kerala, India
Title: "Biomimetic And Quantum Cluster Based Electrochemical Sensors For Selected Biomolecules"
M.Sc. (2004 – 2006): Department of Chemistry, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha.
B.Sc. (2001 – 2003): Department of Chemistry, Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha
Junior & Senior Research fellow (01 / 2009 – 11 / 2012)
Institution : National Institute For Interdisciplinary Science And Technology Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research Trivandrum
Adviser : Dr. T. Prasada Rao
Thesis title : "Biomimetic and Quantum Cluster Based Electrochemical Sensors for Selected Biomolecules”.
Research Area : Conducting polymer /Atomic Quantum clusters / electrochemical sensor/ion selective electrodes.
Publications and patents : 7
RECOGNISED AS RESEARCH GUIDE UNDER CALICUT UNIVERSIRY
Hands on experience with SEM, TEM, MALDI-TOF, IR Spectrophotometry, Spectrofluorimetry, DLS, Autolab( For Cyclic Voltammetry, Differential Pulse V0ltammetry, Linear sweep Voltammetry, Square Wave Voltammety etc.), Ion analyser and multiparameter instrument.
ON GOING PROJECTS- MINOR
· 2248- MRP/15-16/KLCA023/UGC-SWRO
Design of phosphate silicate and arsenate potentioselectrode based on floatation and preconcentration of hydrophobic multi component ion associates of heteropoly molybdate and the cationic base”
Funding Agency –UGC
Amount Sactioned-4,90,000
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Patent
Varghese Saumya, K. P. Prathish and T. Prasada Rao Metal oxide modified and and unmodified molecularly imprinted conducting polymer film based aqueous aminoacid sensor, U.S Patent, 2013 Publication number US20130306485 A1 Inter National Publication date: 21 Nov 2013.
P.V. Subha, Varghese Saumya and T. Prasada Rao “Nano structured silver oxide film based aqueous voltammetric pesticide sensor and the process of preparing said sensor” WIPO Pub. No. WO2013/114404 A1 Inter National Publication date: 08-08-2013.
Publications
Varghese Saumya, K. P. Prathish and T. Prasada Rao In situ copper oxide modified molecularly imprinted polypyrrole film based voltammetric sensor for selective recognition of tyrosine. Talanta 85 (2011) 1056– 1062
Varghese Saumya, K. P. Prathish, S. Dhanya and T. Prasada Rao Mechanistic aspects of tyrosine sensing on an in- situ copper oxide modified molecularly imprinte polypyrrole coated glassy carbon electrode. J. of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 663 (2011) 53-58
Varghese Saumya and T.P. Rao, in: S.K Aggarwal, S.K Guin(Eds.), Mechanistic studies of tyrosine sensing at copper oxide modified molecularly imprinted poly pyrrole coated GCE in acetate medium.4th DM-ISEAC -2011 Conference proceedings, pp.252-258
Varghese Saumya and T. Prasada. Rao Copper quantum cluster-polypyrrole composite film based zero current chronopotentiometric sensor for glutathione. Analytical Method 4 (2012) 1976-1982
S. Dhanya, Varghese Saumya and T. Prasada Rao , Synthesis of silver nanoclusters, characterization and application to trace level sensing of nitrate in aqueous media, Electrochimica Acta 102(2013)299-305
P.V. Subha, Varghese Saumya and T. Prasada Rao Nanostructured Silver Oxide Film Based Aqueous Voltammetric Sensor for Quantification of Sub-picomolar Levels of Endosulphan(to be communicated). .
Varghese Saumya P.V. Subha, and T. Prasada Rao Electrochemical characterization of nano structured silver oxide film modified polycrystalline silver electrode (to be communicated).
Varghese Saumya Smart sensory materials for mercury cation, a dithizone immobilized cellulose triacetate membrane for optical analysis (to be communicated).
Conference presentations
Varghese Saumya, K. P. Prathish, and T. Prasada Rao, Metal ion mediated and/ or metal oxide modified molecularly imprinted polypyrrole film based Electrochemical sensor for L-Tyrosine (Poster presentation), 9th International Symposium on Advances in Electrochemical Science And Technology, held at Hotel Green Park, Chennai, India during 2-4 December 2010.
Varghese Saumya and T. Prasada. Rao Mechanistic studies of tyrosine sensing at copper oxide modified molecularly imprinted poly pyrrole coated GCE in acetate medium (Oral presentation) 4th DM-ISEAC -2011 held at Mascot Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
