Dr Saravanan Thangavelu
Assistant Professor
+91 - 40 - 23134815
tsaravanan@uohyd.ac.in
About Saravanan
Saravanan was born in Kilakarai, Ramanathapuram (District), Tamil Nadu, India. He received his M.Sc. in Chemistry from Madurai Kamaraj University (2008). Then he pursued his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Anju Chadha in Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (2014). Soon after his Ph.D., he moved to the research group of Prof. Wolf D. Fessner at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany for post-doctoral research (2014 – 2016). Subsequently, he did post-doctoral research with Prof. Gerrit J. Poelarends at the University of Groningen, Netherlands (2016 – 2019).
Saravanan is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad where he joined in January 2020.
Research interests
- Bioorganic Chemistry
- Whole-cell Biocatalysis
- Enzyme Catalysis
- Protein Engineering & Directed Evolution
- Enzymatic cascades
- Photo-Biocatalysis