2022-
Associate Professor
IISER-Trivandrum
2015-2022
Assistant Professor
IISER-Trivandrum
2012-2015
Post-doc
Marie-Curie
Varinder Aggarwal
University of Bristol, UK
2011-2012
Post-doc
NIH
Corey Stephenson
Boston University, USA
2009-2011
Post-doc
AvH
Magnus Rueping
RWTH, Aachen, Germany
2005-2009
Ph.D
DAAD
Oliver Reiser
University of Regensburg, Germany
Ramesh was born in Pandamangalam, Namakkal Dist, TN, India. After the completion of M.Sc from University of Madras (2003) and a project work from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he pursued his Ph.D with Dr. Oliver Reiser in University of Regensburg, Germany. Dr. Rasappan received the prestigious 'DAAD Fellowship' from Germany for his doctoral studies in Asymmetric Synthesis. Soon after his Ph.D (2009), he won the Alexander von Humboldt award and continued his work with Dr. Magnus Rueping in Aachen University, Germany. He subsequently did post-doctoral research with Dr. Corey Stephenson in Boston University, USA. Later, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Varinder Aggarwal, University of Bristol, England, shifting his research from photocatalysis to Lithiation-Borylation. Ramesh is also the receiver of the renowned Marie-Curie fellowship.
Ramesh joined IISER-TVM as an Assistant Professor in 2015. His area of expertise includes asymmetric catalysis especially the use chiral ligands like bis(oxazolines), organocatalysis (phosphoric acids & prolines), photocatalysis and short synthesis of natural products.
Current work in his group is centred on asymmetric coupling reactions where the stereochemical information is induced by a chiral ligand or transferred from a starting compound. Look at the research page for the detailed info.
2016
Ramanujan Fellowship
2012
Marie-Curie Fellowship
2010
AvH (Alexander von Humboldt) Fellowship
2005
DAAD (Ph.D) Fellowship