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• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, SSN College of Engineering, May 2023 onwards
• UGC-Dr. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow, NCNSNT, University of Madras-Guindy Campus, 2021-2023
• SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, 2017-2019
• INSPIRE Fellow, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, CSIR-CLRI, Chennai, 2012-2017
• Project JRF, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, CSIR-CLRI, 2011-2012
• Research Trainee, Research & Development, Orchid Pharmaceuticals, Chennai, 2010-2011

• Down and Upconversion phosphors
• Nanophotonics
• Supercapacitors

• Life member of Society of Biomaterials and Artificial Organs India (SBAOI)
• CSIR-UGC-National Eligibility Test for Lectureship, 2011
• Summer Research Fellow sponsored by the Indian Academy of Sciences, 2009
• Gold medal for securing the first rank in M. ScChemistry, 2010
• T.P Meenakshisundaram Endowment Prize for securing the first rank in M. Sc Chemistry, 2010
• Maveeran Sundaralingam Endowment scholarship for securing highest marksin I M.Sc Chemistry, 2009
• Professor C. Srinivasan Endowment Medal prize for securing the first rank in Sc-Physical Chemistry, 2009
• Second rank in Sc-Special Chemistry, 2008
• Dhanalakshmi R. Victoria prize for the best candidate in B.Sc-Physical Chemistry, 2008
• Sundarambal Muthusamy Memorial Prize for best student in Sc-Organic chemistry, 2008
• Second prize in CLRI-Young Scientist Seminar Competition for the years 2015 & 2016
• Best Poster award in National Conference on Materials Science & Technology, IIST, Trivandrum, 2013

1. Vairapperumal Tamilmani,* Manisha Mondal, Vineet Kumar Rai, and Ashok Kumar Mishra, Tunable luminescence from yttrium oxide flowers using asparagine as shape modifier, Journal of Alloys and compounds, 857, 2021, 157575 (ISSN 0925-8388). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925838820339396
2. Vairapperumal Tamilmani,* Lakshmi Mukhopadhyay, Vineet Kumar Rai, Kalarical Janardhanan Sreeram and Ashok Kumar Mishra, Dual mode luminescence from lanthanum orthovanadate nanoparticles, Journal of Luminescence, 127, 2020, 116761 (ISSN 0022-2313). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.116761
3. Vairapperumal Tamilmani, Astha Kumari, Vineet Kumar Rai, Balachandran Unni Nair and Kalarical Janardhanan Sreeram, Bright green frequency upconversion in catechin based Yb³⁺/Er³⁺ codoped LaVO₄ nanorods upon 980 nm excitation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, 2017, 4505 (ISSN:1932-7455). http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08510
4. Vairapperumal Tamilmani, Arya Saraswathy, RS Jayasree, Kalarical Janardhanan Sreeram and Balachandran Unni Nair, Catechin tuned magnetism of Gd-doped orthovanadate through morphology as T₁-T₂ MRI contrast agents, Scientific Reports, 6, 2016, 34976 (ISSN:2045-2322). http://www.nature.com/articles/srep34976
5. Vairapperumal Tamilmani, Natarajan Duraipandy, Kiran Manikantan Syamala, Kalarical Janardhanan Sreeram and Balachandran Unni Nair, Catechin caged lanthanum orthovanadate nanorods for nuclear targeting and bioimaging applications, Sensors and Actuators B, 242, 2017, 700 (ISSN:0925-4005)http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2016.11.111

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