Education

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 2012

• M.Sc., Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamilnadu, India, 2007

• B.Sc., Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamilnadu, India, 2005

Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (Feb. 2022 - Present)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2022)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata (Nov. 2015 - Jan. 2016)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Würzburg, Germany with Prof. H. Braunschweig (2012 - 2015)

• Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Würzburg, Germany (Feb. 2013 – Jan. 2015)

Awards and Honors

• CRSI Bronze Medal, 2026

• SERB-Women Excellence Award, 2020

• NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, 2019

• Young Scientist Medal, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 2019

• Young Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences (2018-2021)

• DST Inspire Faculty Award, 2015

• Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany, 2013

• "Werner Prize” for Best Ph.D. Thesis, IIT Madras, 2013

• CSIR-JRF in Chemical Sciences, 2008

• GATE in Chemistry, 2007

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, Journal of Indian Chemical Society

• Early Career Advisory Board, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2022-)

• Editorial Board Member, Chemistry - An Asian Journal (2022-)

Invited Presentations

• N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Cobalt: Application in Catalytic Borylation Reaction. Institute Colloquium, IISER Tirupati on February 10, 2021

• Metal Catalysed Borylation Reaction: A step Towards a Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling Reaction. National Chemistry Week, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), organized by Thiagarajar College, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India, on November 5, 2020

• Metal Catalysed Borylation Reaction: A step Towards a Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling Reaction. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Vision and Action in the Current Scenario, organized by Mount Carmel college, Bangalore, India, on June 6, 2020

• N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Cobalt: Application in Catalytic Borylation Reaction. 18th Biennial International Symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XVIII), organized by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), Guwahati, on December 11-14, 2019

• N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Cobalt: Application in Catalytic Borylation Reaction. 85th Annual Meeting, organized by Indian Academy of Sciences, Hyderabad, on November 8-10, 2019

• Base-metal Catalyzed Borylation of Organic Substrates. Frontiers in Organic Chemistry Symposium-IV, organized by Bristol-Myers Bicon Research and Development Center (BBRC), Bangalore, on August 20, 2019

• N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Cobalt: Application in Catalytic Borylation Reaction. Chemical Frontiers-2019, held at Holiday Inn Resort, Goa, during August 22-25, 2019

• Base-metal Catalyzed Borylation of Organic Substrates. International Conference on Structural and Inorganic Chemistry-II (ICSIC - II), March, 2019, IISER Pune, India.

• Base-metal Catalyzed Borylation of Aryl Halides and Alkenes. DCS Day, March, 2019, IISER Kolkata, India.

• Cobalt Catalyzed synthesis of Aryl and Alkyl boronic acids. 13^th CRSI-RSC National Symposium, February, 2019, IIT Madras, India.

• Cobalt Catalyzed Borylation of Aryl Halides and Alkenes. International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC), December 13-16, 2018, Holiday Inn Resort, Goa, India.

• Synthesis of Organoboranes: Base Metal catalysed Borylation of Organic Substrates. International Conference on Green Methods for Seperation, Purification and Nanomaterials Sysnthesis, April 25, 2018, Center for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Bangalore, India.

• Synthesis and Reactivities of Iminoboranes and Boryl Anions with Boran Backbone. One Day Seminar on Bio-Inorganic Chemistry, January 22, 2018, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.

• Metal Catalysed Borylation Reaction: A Step Towards a Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling Reaction. Recent trends in Chemistry, January 18, 2018, The American College, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.

• The Reactivities of Iminoboranes with Carbenes and Alkynes, Frontiers of Organometallic Chemistry, December 3-6, 2016, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

• A highly efficient synthesis of arachno-[(Cp*RuCO)2B2H6]: An active alkyne cyclotrimerization catalyst. 14th CRSI-RSC National Symposium in Chemistry, Thiruvananthapuram, India, February 2012. (Invited talk)

Conferences Attended and Paper Presented

• Braunschweig, H., Geetharani, K., H rl, C., Pfaffinger, B., Sch fer, M. (2013): Transition metal mediated [2+2+2] cycloadditions of iminoboranes and alkynes: New synthetic route to 1,4-azaborinine

• EuroBoron 6, European Conferences on Boron Chemistry at Radziejowice, Poland, September 2013. (Poster presentation)

• Geetharani, K. and Ghosh, S. (2010). A highly efficient synthesis of arachno-[(Cp*RuCO)2B2H6]: An active alkyne cyclotrimerization catalyst. Boron in the Americas XII, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, June 2010. (Oral presentation)

• Geetharani, K. and Ghosh, S. (2009). A highly efficient synthesis of arachno-[(Cp*RuCO)2B2H6]: An active alkyne cyclotrimerization catalyst (Cp*= η5-C5Me5). Inorganic Ring Systems- 12 at Goa, India, August 2009. (Oral presentation)

Institute-level Responsibilities

• Convener, MSc. pgrogram, Chemical Sciences Division (2025-)

• Member, Institute NMR facility Committee (2021-)

• Member, Selection Committee for Raman and IoE Post-doctoral Fellowship (2020-2025)

• Member, Departmental COVID-19 Committee (2020-)

• Member, Committee for Women's Equity and Inclusion (2020-)

• Member, Institute X-ray facility Committee (2019-2022)

• Safety Champion - All the safety related issues in the Department

• Member, Department Curriculum Committee (DCC)

• Member, Int. PhD Committee, Chemical Sciences Division (2017-2020)

• In-Charge, NMR facility, IPC Department

• In-Charge, Glass blowing facility, IPC Department