Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is a senior scientist at the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Trivandrum, India. He obtained M. Sc. (1984) and Ph. D (1988) in Chemistry from Calicut University, India.

He is a former Humboldt Fellow and is a recipient of the Young Scientist award of the Indian Science Congress Association (1988), Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy (1991), the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (2002), the Materials Research Society of India Medal (2007) and the prestigious Bhatnagar Prize in 2007.

He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in the area of molecular self-assemblies and nanoarchitectures of π-conjugated systems.