| Name | Areas of Research |
| Prof. Kattera A. Suresh | Soft Condensed Matter - Liquid Crystals, Surface Science. |
| Dr. S. Krishna Prasad | Photoinduced Phase Transitions, Restricted Geometry Effects, Charge Transport, Rheology, High Pressure Effects, Xray Scattering, Metallic Nano-particles, Chromonic and Ionic Liquid Crystals. |
| Dr. Geetha G. Nair | Photoinduced phenomena in liquid crystals, Chromonic liquid crystals, Liquid crystal Gels: Electro-optics and Viscoelastic properties,Mixtures of Banana and Calamitic Liquid Crystals: Polarization and Electro-optical studies. |
| Dr. D. S. Shankar Rao | Xray diffraction, Pressure studies, Phase transitions and critical phenomena, Electric and electroptic effects of chiral and bent core. |
| Dr. Veena Prasad | Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystals. |
| Dr. C. V. Yelamaggad |
Design and synthesis of a wide variety of multifunctional molecules capable of exhibiting liquid crystalline and other molecular materials properties. |
| Dr. P. Viswanath | Interfaces in soft matter, Phase transitions, Langmuir monolayer. |
| Dr. S. Angappane | Ferrofluids, Ferronematics, Nano particles. |
| Prof. K. S. Krishnamurthy | Electric and magnetic field effects in liquid crystals, soft matter. |
| Prof. H.L.Bhat |
Condensed matter physics, Nonlinear optical materials, Strongly correlated electronic systems. |
| Prof. G.S.Ranganath | Optics and Liquid Crystals. |
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