Adjunct Faculty

Professor G Parthasarathy FNA, Adjunct Professor of NIAS, has been awarded the prestigious DAE-Raja Ramanna Chair Professorship by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He shall be researching Minerals at DAE-Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Southern Region, Bengaluru.  Professor Gopalakrishnarao Parthasarathy, after school education at Chidambaram , Tamil Nadu, he has obtained First Class, and First Rank in B.Sc (Physics) and M.Sc in Physics from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu;
He obtained PhD in Physics in 1984 from Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, Karnataka. Served as a Faculty at IISc during 1984-89; He was a
faculty at Materials Research center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore during
1984‐89. Visiting Fellow at Cornell University 1989-1990; Since 1990 has been
working on in Earth and Planetary materials science at CSIR-NGRI till 2018 .
After superannuation from CSIR-NGRI he joined as an Adjunct Professor
and INSA Senior Scientist at School of Natural Sciences and Engineering,
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru,  President of Indian
Social Science Academy 2021-2022;
1990-2018 :During his tenure at CSIR-National Geophysical Research
Institute, he initiated new research programs like “ Mineral Physics” “
Nanogeoscience” and “Environmental Mineralogy” at CSIR-NGRI.
He has also made outstanding contributions on the terrestrial analogs of
Martian and Lunar surface materials. He has published about 320 research papers
in peer reviewed, and 8 international patents to his credit in the area of condensed
matter Physics, Experimental Mineralogy and Materials Science, Earth and
Planetary sciences and Environmental Social Science.
His recognitions include
 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow , Germany 1987‐88,
 Post Doc Faculty, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA during 1989‐ 90.
 Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry,
 2003 He is a recipient of the prestigious PRL Award , Physical Research
Laboratory, 2003;

 National Mineral Award from Ministry of Mines, Government of India,
2003,
 GSI-MR Srinivasa Rao Award of the Geological Society of India 2008
 MRSI Medal from the Materials Research Society of India, 2007 for the
contributions to the earth and planetary materials science.
 Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award from APCOST, for the year 2007;
 Decennial Gold Medal of Indian Geophysical Union for the year 2009.
 Best Reviewer Award from the Geoscience Frontiers, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing, China 2016.
 President of Indian Social Science Academy. Allahabad 2021-22

Jeebanlata Salam obtained her master's degree in sociology from Delhi school of economics, University of Delhi and a doctorate degree in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Prior to joining NIAS as an Adjunct Faculty, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Education Program at the School of Social Sciences at NIAS from February 2016 to July 2025., Dr. Jeebanlata Salam taught sociology at the University of Delhi. She taught as invited visiting faculty at the science and liberal arts programme, National Institute of Design, Bengaluru Campus.

Research interests: 
Sociology & anthropology of education, social exclusion, state-society relations, nation & identity aspirations, conflict & violence, human rights, and youth. 

Teaching courses: 
Sociology of education, social exclusion, and education & research methodology. 

Prof Mahalingam has served as a full-time regulator, having been a Member of Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board for five years from its inception in 2007.  She was also energy member of National Security Advisory Board that advises the Prime Minister through the National Security Advisor on issues related to India's national security. She has also been Visiting Fellow at international universities, Senior Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi and guest faculty at LBSNAA, Foreign Services Institute, National Defence College etc.  Prof Sudha Mahalingam has been awarded Doctorate by the University of Technology, Sydney in March 2020 on the thesis topic  A Review of Independent Regulation in India’s Downstream Hydrocarbon Sector.