DESCRIPTION :Dr. Kamali Kesavan is a Gold Medalist in Chemical Sciences from Pondicherry University in 2010. She pursued her Doctoral research in Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam in 2016. Her research work was on ‘High Pressure Raman Spectroscopic Studies on anomalous thermal expansion materials’. Following her Ph. D, she has worked as Research Associate in IGCAR on high pressure studies on radioactive nanomaterial for five months. Then she joined as National Post Doctoral Fellow in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) with Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana in 2016. During this period she had worked on pressure and temperature dependent studies on Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). Later she continued the research as Research Associate in the same group from 2018-2019. Apart from gaining expertise in various sample synthesis and characterization techniques, she has utilized advanced high pressure synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction facilities at Express beamline in Elettra synchrotron Light Source, Italy. In September 2019, she joined as a Scientist in CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar.EXPERIENCE :

• Scientist: CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (Sept 2019-Present)
  
• Research Associate: Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, India (2018-2019).
  
• National Post Doctoral Fellow: Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, India (2016-2018).
  
• Research Associate: Fuel Chemistry Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India (Feb 2016- June 2016).

• Nanomaterial synthesis
  
• Raman spectroscopy, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)
  
• Photocatalysi

• Awarded National Post Doctoral Fellowship by Department of Science and Technology during 2016-2018.
  
• Awarded 'Young Scientist in Physics' for the year 2014 by Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society, Hyderabad.
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• In Situ Growth of Self-Assembled ZIF-8–AminoclayNanocomposites with Enhanced Surface Area and CO2 Uptake. A. Chakraborty, S. Laha, K. Kamali, C. Narayana, M. Eswaramoorthy,* and T. K. Maji Inorg.Chem. 56 (2017) 9426
  
• High pressure Raman spectroscopic studies on nanocrystalline ThO2 K. Kamali, K. Ananthasivan, T. R. Ravindran and D. Sanjay Kumar J. Nucl. Mat. 493 (2017) 77.
  
• Temperature and pressure dependent Phase transitions of ß'-LiZr2(PO4)3 studied by Raman Spectroscopy, K. Kamali and T. R. Ravindran, Phys. Chem. A, 120 (2016) 1971.
  
• Comparative Raman spectroscopic study of phase stability and anharmonic effects in AZr2(PO4)3 (A= K, Rb and Cs), K. Kamali, T. R. Ravindran and C. Ravi, Spectrochim.Acta, Part A 155, (2016) 38.
  
• Pressure induced phase transformations in NaZr2(PO4)3 studied by X-Ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, K.Kamali, T. R. Ravindran, N. V. Chandra Shekar, K. K. Pandey, and S. M. Sharma. J. Solid State Chem. 221 (2015) 285.
  
• High pressure Raman spectroscopic study of phase transformation in TaO2F, K. Kamali, T. R. Ravindran and T. N. Sairam, Vibrational Spectroscopy, 71 (2014) 12.
  
• Linear compressibility and thermal expansion of KMn[Ag(CN)2]3 studied by Raman spectroscopy and first-principles calculations, K.Kamali, C. Ravi, T. R. Ravindran, R. M. Sarguna, T. N. Sairam and G. Kaur, J. Phys. Chem. C, 117 (2013) 25704.
  
• Anharmonic phonons of NaZr2(PO4)3 studied by Raman spectroscopy, first principles calculations and x-ray diffraction, K. Kamali, T. R. Ravindran, C. Ravi, Y. Sorb, N. Subramanian and A. K. Arora. Phys. Rev. B, 86 (2012) 144301.

DST-NPDF Grant (2016-2018) -"Temperature and pressure dependent studies on MOFs and their evaluation of their performance for gas storage by Raman Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction"