Name: Dr. Varadharajan Srinivasan
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry
E-Mail: vardha@iiserbhopal.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092317
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

• Assistant Professor (February 2010-),Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.

• Post-doc (Sep. 2009-Dec. 2009) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

• Post-Doc (Jan. 2007-Aug. 2009) University of California, Berkeley, CA.

• Ph.D. Chemistry (2001- 2006) Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Research Interest:

• Electronic, optical and structural properties of materials for renewable energy conversion and storage such as solar cells and fuels.

• Chemical and physical phenomena at the nanoscale.

• Electronic structure at solid surfaces and interfaces.

• Electronic and structural phase transitions in the solid state.

• Excited state dynamics in photochemical systems.

Selected Publications:

1. Varadharajan Srinivasan , and Daniel Sebastiani, “ The Isotope-Effect in the Phase Transition of KH2PO4: New Insights from ab-initio Path-Integral Simulations ”
   J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 12631 (2011).

2. J. Cho, L. Berbil-Bautista, I. V. Pechenezhskiy, N. Levy, S. K. Meier, Varadharajan Srinivasan, Y. Kanai, J. C. Grossman, K. P. C. Vollhardt, and M. F. Crommie, “Single-Molecule-Resolved Structural Changes Induced by Temperature and Light in Surface-Bound Organometallic Molecules Designed for Energy Storage”
   ACS Nano, 5, 3701 (2011).

3. Y. Kanai, Varadharajan Srinivasan, J. C. Grossman, S. K. Meier, and P. C. Vollhardt, “Mechanism of Thermal Reversal of the (Fulvalene)tetracabonyldiruthenium Photoisomerization: Toward Molecular Solar-Thermal Energy Storage”
   Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49, 8926 (2010).

4. J. Cao, E. Ertekin, Varadharajan Srinivasan, W. Fan, S. Huang, H. Zheng, J. W. L. Yim,D. R. Khanal, D. F. Ogletree, J. C. Grossman, and J. Wu, “Strain engineering and
   one-dimensional organization of metal-insulator domains in single crystal VO2 beams” Nature Nanotechnology 4, 732 (2009).

5. Varadharajan Srinivasan, Giancarlo Cicero, and Jeffrey C. Grossman, “Adsorption-induced surface stresses in alkanethiolate-Au self-assembled monolayers”
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 185504 (2008).

6. J. Morrone, Varadharajan Srinivasan, Daniel Sebastiani, and Roberto Car, “The ProtonMomentum Distribution in Water: An Open Path Integral Molecular Dynamics Study”,
   J.Chem. Phys. 126, 234504 (2007).