Dr Mahesh Kumar Ravva, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry was conferred with a PhD from CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, in 2014. He has completed his postdoctoral tenures at the Georgia Institute of Technology and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Dr Ravva joined SRM University-AP as a DST-INPSPIRE faculty in 2017. His main research interests include designing and developing organic materials for organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes, and understanding charge transport in π-conjugated materials. He is the author and co-author of more than 80 publications in Nature Materials, Nature Communications, ACS nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Organic Letters, etc.