Dr. Anima Nanda, FNRS, FAB, FIAS - Dean - IQAC

Dr. Anima Nanda, FNRS, FAB, FIAS - Dean - IQAC
Dr. Anima Nanda, FNRS, FAB, FIAS - Dean - IQAC
M.Sc.,Ph.D.,
Dean

Dr. Anima Nanda holding the post of Dean – IQAC at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India. She was heading four departments like, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biotechnology, Department of Bioinformatics and Department of Chemical Engineering being the Dean for the School of Bio & Chemical Engineering and head Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her research perspectives on the role of bacteria and fungi in human health by means of nanotechnology have a better control over the drug resistance pathogens. She has Govt. of India sponsored research projects worth Rs. 1.79 crore and one SHRI DST project of Rs. 47 lakhs is running with two are in process. She has more than 187 publications in high impacted national and international journals and book chapters to her credit, she has produced 12 Ph. D. students and 6 are continuing. She has delivered more than 50 lecturers as an invited speaker in national and international level.  To her credit, Dr. Nanda has one Patent entitled on “Title: Heuristic height adjustable track mechanism for a stair climbing wheelchair”- with (Patent Application No/ 1654/CHE/2012) for physically challenged person.  Honored with Fellow of Natural Resources and Conservation (FNRS), Fellow of Applied Biotechnology (FAB) and Fellow of Indian Aerobiological Society (FIAS) and also received twice best teacher award, gold medalist and best project award, chaired number of technical sessions and life member of varied societies including American Nano Society and Indian Nanomedicine and a reviewer of Science direct, Springer, Nature scientific journal etc. Also serves as Assessor of NAAC and NABL.

Achievements
  • No. of publications in high impacted journal international journals & national journals: 187
  • No. of publications in Reputed Proceedings: 35
  • No. of Book Chapters:20
  • No. of Govt. sponsored projects: from DBT, DST etc.: 3
  • No. of Patent: 1 (Automated staircase climbing wheel chair)
  • Patent under process: 2 (Device for stammering aid, Prosthetic hand for amputees)
  • No. of Ph. D. students: 17
  • No. of Ph. D. students awarded the degree: 11
  • As Chair Person and Resource Person: 37
  • No. of Paper presented in National and international conferences: 96
  • No. of Workshop and FDP attended: 15
  • Editor of Research Journals: 3 (PLOS ONE, Frontier Journal of Microbiology, Frontier Journal of Chemotherapy and Antimicrobial agent)
  • Reviewer of 35 reputed Journals and Evaluated more than 100 articles from different journals of Science Direct, Elsevier publications (EES), Springer, Nature (Scientific report) etc.
  • As an adjudicators Ph. D. thesis in Pharmacy, Botany, Microbiology and Biotechnology: 8
  • Reviewed M.Phil. dissertation: 8
  • Book Reviewed: 3
  • Contribution to Society: “Development of nanomedicine to control over “SUPER BUGS” Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) pathogens”. 
  • Assessor of NAAC
  • Trained NABL Assessor (Assessor ID: APP-T/0820/001649)
  • Life member of International Society of Conservation and natural resources (ISCON)
  • Life member of Indian Aerobiological Society (IAS),
  • Life member of Mycological Society of India (MSI),
  • Life member of Orissa Botanical Society (OBS)
  • Life member of American Nano Society (ANS)
  • Life member of Society for Applied Biotechnology (SAB)
  • Life Time Membership Indian Society of Nanomedicine (ISNM)
  • Life member of Indian Association of Applied Microbiologists (IAAM)
Awards & Recognitions
  • Availed JRF and SRF from M o E & F, New Delhi
  • Honored with Fellow of Natural Resources Society (FNRS) Title, 2006
  • Achieved Best project awards 2008
  • Achieved Best teacher award 2009 (Gold Medal)
  • Achieved Best faculty award 2011
  • Achieved Best faculty award for excellence 2013
  • Honored with Fellow of Applied Biotechnology (FAB) Title, 2014
  • Achieved SAB Eminent Nano-biotechnologist award 2014 (Society for Applied Biotechnology)
  • Honored with Fellow of Indian Aerobiological Society (FIAS) Title, 2018
  • Honored with "Top 50 Directors and Coordinators of IQAC across India" for the year 2019, by “The Academic Council of uLektz”.
Research
  • Role of bacteria and fungi in human health
  • Synthesis of Nanomaterials from microorganisms and medicinal plants
  • Study on MDR pathogens (Drug Resistant Pathogens)
  • Dose dependency study of antibiotics augmented with nanomaterials on Septicemia
  • Cytotoxicity study
  • Study of aero-microflora for sick building syndrome
Communication

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Dr. Anima Nanda, Ph.D., FNRS, FIAS, FAB

Dean, IQAC

Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed to be University,)   
Jeppiaar Nagar, Rajiv Gandhi Salai,
Chennai - 600 119. Tamilnadu, INDIA.
E-mail: [email protected],[email protected]