Dr Narayanapillai Manoj joined CUSAT as Reader in 2006 and he is currently a Professor at Department of Applied Chemistry and the University Coordinator of RUSA scheme of MHRD at CUSAT. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from NIIST – CSIR, Trivandrum in 1999. He was a post – doctoral at Politechnic University of València, Spain and at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany during 2000-2006. He was a also visiting fellow at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Hokkaido University, Japan. His research interests include Photophysics and Photochemistry, Steady state and time resolved absorption and emission spectroscopy, Electron Transfer Reactions, Solar energy Harvesting and Organic Synthesis. Under his guidance 4 candidates obtained PhD and 12 candidates obtained MPhil degree. He has published over 30 published articles in international journals and served as a Principal Investigator of research projects funded by UGC, ICMR and DST. He currently serves as a member

Chemistry of reactive oxygen species, Organic Synthesis, Photochemistry, Photophysics and Photobiology, Photovoltaics

Lawsone derived Zn (ii) and Fe (iii) metal organic frameworks with pH dependent emission for controlled drug delivery, New Journal of Chemistry, RSC Vol. 45, 2021

Pyran Based Bipodal D-?-A Systems: Colorimetric and Ratiometric Sensing of Mercury; Experimental and Theoretical Approach, New Journal of Chemistry, RSC Vol. 45, 2021

Molecular chameleon: Fluorometric to Pb2+, Fluorescent Ratiometric to Hg2+ and Colorimetric to Ag+ ions,, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry , Elsevier Vol. 407, 2021

Experimental investigations on the effect of non polar and polar aprotic solvents on the reaction between furan-2-methanamine and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, Chemical Data Collections, ELSEVIER Vol. 28, 2020

Transition?Metal?Catalyzed Syntheses of Indazoles, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry , WILEY Vol. 9, 2020

Synthesis, Characterization and Singlet Oxygen Generation Studies of Surface-Tethered Triazatriangulenium Cations. , Materials Today Proceedings, Elsevier Vol. 33, 2020

Structure–property correlations of the nonlinear optical properties of a few bipodal D–?–A molecules – an experimental and theoretical approach., New Journal of Chemistry, ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY Vol. 44, 2020

Comparison of DSSC efficiencies in a series of D-?-A systems having heterocyclic based anchoring group., Materials Today: Proceedings, ELSEVIER Vol. 33, 2020

Synthesis of hybrid polycycles containing fused hydroxy benzofuran and 1H-indazoles via a domino cyclization reaction, New Journal of Chemistry, ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY Vol. 43, 2019

Functionalizable 1H-Indazoles by Palladium Catalyzed Aza-Nenitzescu Reaction: Pharmacophores to Donor-Acceptor Type Multi-Luminescent Fluorophores, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, WILEY Vol. 7, 2018

Engineering of indazole-based push-pull molecules for bioimaging applications, International conference on Materials for the Millennium (MATCON 2019), 2019

Investigations on the Synthesis and Reaction of Furfurylamine with DMAD in nonpolar solvent, International conference on Materials for the Millennium (MATCON 2019), 2019

Functionalizable 1H-Indazoles by Palladium Catalysed Aza-Nenitzescu Reaction: Pharmacophores to Donor – Acceptor Type Multi-Luminescent Flurophores, Advanced Functional materials for Analytical, Energy, Environmental and Biomedical Applications, NSAFM 2019, 2019

Design, Synthesis and Studies of a Novel Indolo-Coumarin Hybrid Heterocycle, International Conference on Optoelectronic and Nano Materials For Advanced Technology (icONMAT 2019), 2019

Self-assembly of Indolocarbazole-Based Low Molecular MassOrganogelators, International Conference on Optoelectronic and Nano Materials For Advanced Technology (icONMAT 2019), 2019

Synthesis and Studies of Multi-Luminescent Hybrid 3H-benzofuro[3,2-e]indazole Dyes, International Conference on Chemistry and Physics of Materials (ICCPM), 2018

Synthesis of 1H-Indazoles from Hydrazone s and p-Benzoquinones Via palladium catalysed Aza-nenitzescu Reaction, National Seminar on Current Trends in Chemistry (CTriC-2018), 2018

Synthesis and study of tethered Anthracene Triazine Dyads, National Seminar on Current Trends in Chemistry (CTriC-2018), 2018

Synthesis and Characterizations of Multifunctional Derivative of Amine Appended Dibenzobarrlene, National Seminar on Current Trends in Chemistry (CTriC-2018), 2018

Synthesis and study of pyran based donor-pi-acceptor system for the selective detection of mercury, Recent Advances In chemical Sciences (RACS 2017), 2017

Observer to International Chemistry Olympiad from HBCSE, Government of India, in the year 2019

Resource Person and Member, Board of Selection of Candidates for International Chemistry Olympiad from HBCSE, Government of India, in the year 2019