Professor and Director, Manipal Institute of Applied Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.

• Director-Manipal Institute of Applied Physics, [2025-present] Professor and Director, Manipal Institute of Applied Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
• [2022-2025] Professor and Head, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.
• [2018-2022] Professor, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.
• [2012-2018] Associate Professor, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.
• [2009-2012] Scientist, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
• [2007-2009] Scientist, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
• [2006-2007] Assistant Professor, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.   
• [2005-2006] Research Associate, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.  
• [2004-2005] KU Leuven Fellow, Katholikek University of Leuven, Belgium

• Photonics, Applied Nanosciences, Surface Engineering, Photothermal Methods, Sensors

1. Bharath Bannur, K Monisha, Shreyas Mysuru Shivalingegowda, Sajan D George (2025), White light assisted projection printing of submicron plasmonic nanostructures for advanced nanofabrication, Materials Horizons (just accepted) DOI: 10.1039/D5MH00019J

2. Vineet P, Aravind M, Sajan D. George (2024) A wettability contrast SERS droplet assay for multiplexed analyte detection, ACS Analytical Chemistry, 96, 22, 9141-9150

3.Monisha K, Suresh K, Assefhali Bankapur, Sajan D. George (2023) Optical printing of plasmonic nanoparticles for SERS and thermophoretic assembly of biological cells Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 377, 133047

4.A. Peethan, Aravind. M, S. Chidangil, S. D. George (2022) Non-adhesive contrast substrate for single-cell trapping and Raman spectroscopic analysis, Lab-on-a-Chip, 22(21), 4110-4117 (2022) - chosen as HOT article of the journal

5. Aravind M, S. Chidangil, S. D. George (2022) Self-Moisturizing Contact Lens Employing Capillary Flow Additive Manufacturing, 55, 102842

More at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lHxs3g0AAAAJ

Book Chapters: 9

Patent Published/Granted: 12/1

Projects: 13+ Cr

Ph.D Guided/Guiding:13/10

• Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK (2023)

• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2022)

• Fellow, Indian Chemical Society, India (2021)

• Editor, Scientific Reports - Nature Publishing Group, USA (2013-present)