V Girija joined the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) on March 26, 1992, and served as an Administrative Coordinator until her retirement on March 31, 2026.
Ms V Girija had been a part of the NIAS administration since 1992 supporting the Institute in administrative and infrastructure development activities. Provided support for organizing the NIAS-UGC Courses for University and College Teachers conducted during 1998-2008 and also handled matters related to NIAS PhD Programme during its inception stage.
She was supporting the Institute in proceedings related to the NIAS Council and Annual General Body Meetings, NIAS Programme for Senior Executives, NIAS-DST Training Programmes, NIAS Annual Report, and the organization of other institutional meetings.
Ms. V B Mariyammal has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from N.G.M. College, Pollachi affiliated with Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
She joined NIAS in 1997 as a Secretarial Assistant to former Director, late Prof. Roddam Narasimha. She helped him prepare scientific and mathematical manuscripts & technical presentations using LaTeX.
Ms. Mariyammal worked as a Project Assistant in a project titled “Setting up of Digital Archives for Digital Preservation of Manuscripts and Paintings” and prepared digital manuscripts. She also worked Technical Assistant in a project titled “Application of chaos theory to 2D interpolation of irregular data set and image compression”.
Ms Mariyammal helped in preparing course materials for Excellence in Leadership Programme. She provided secretarial support for the institute's Ph.D. Programme during 2005-2007; she helped organize various national and international conferences and bring out the proceedings, reports, and books.
Since 2007, she has been working at the Director’s Secretariat.
Mr. V A Ramesh has joined NIAS on 01st July 2011.
Prior to joining NIAS, Mr Ramesh worked with M/s Micron Electricals Limited for more than 18 years as Maintenance Engineer. He was deputed by M/s Micron Electricals to NIAS to maintain the facilities at the JRD Tata Auditorium when the same was under a maintenance contract with the firm during 1996-2011.
With his vast experience, Mr Ramesh looks after the electrical installations at the Institute. He is also responsible for maintaining the facilities at the JRD Tata Auditorium, Conference Rooms, Lecture Hall and e-Class room at the Institute. He provides active support in organising various events such as training programmes, conferences, workshops, etc
S. Lalitha joined the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) on October 1, 1992, and served as an Administrative Coordinator until her retirement on March 31, 2026.
Left to Right:
Row-1: Shivakumar, N Rajesh, S Sampath, G Venugopal, Chandrashekar, N Ramesh.
Row-2: S R Rathnam, Gajanana S Naik, G Nagaraja, Mujeeb Pasha, V Srinivasa, R Harish, Mohammed Umar.
Mr Aithal joined NIAS on 01 November 1995
He has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in commerce, respectively from Bangalore University and Karnataka University. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in financial management from Pondicherry University.
He has been overseeing the accounts of the Institute as well as its research projects since 1995. He has also successfully handled the finances of the Global Water Partnership Organisation South Asia Secretariat and coordinated with six South Asian Countries for a period of two and half years when the Secretariat was hosted at NIAS. In this context, he visited International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka in 2007. He also visited the University of Exeter, the UK in September 2013, as part of the NIAS delegation. He was once again invited by the University of Exeter in May 2016.
Before taking up the role of Head of Administration and Finance of NIAS with effect from February 2009, he had also held the position of Administrative and Accounts officer at the Institute. As the Head of Administration, he is responsible for matters pertaining to administration, finance, grants, logistics and communication, maintenance of the infrastructure of the establishment, etc. He also ensured the successful completion of the construction of the TCS Knowledge Centre at the Institute during 2016-19.
Providing administrative support for all appointments, renewals, promotions etc., and monitoring the same are also the key responsibilities of Head-Administration.
Mr MS Shivakumar joined NIAS on 07 July 2008.
He has a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Mysore.
He has been assisting the Assistant Manager (Finance & Accounts) on day-to-day matters related to accounts of the Institute as well as its research projects and training programme/conference/seminars etc., since 2008. He also provides admin support to the Office Manager as and when needed.