Personal Information

Name : Francis Thomas
Designation: Assistant Professor
E-mail : francisthomas@sdck.in
Mobile: 9495045619

 

Educational Qualifications

SI.No.	Name of the Program/ Test	Institution & University/ Agency	Year
1.	Master’s Degree	St. Thomas College, Pala, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam	2014
2.	JRF	CSIR	2015
3.	Ph.D	St. Berchmans College, Changanassery	Doing (From 2022)

Career Profile

SI.No.	Name of the Institution	Designation	Period of Service
1.	SVRNSS College, Vazhoor	Guest Lecturer	2014-2015
2.	Mangalam College of Engineering, Ettumanoor	Assistant Professor	2015-2016
3.	St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirapally	Assistant Professor	2017 0nwards

Area of Specialization/Research Interests

Theoretical Chemistry and Spectroscopy

Publications

• F. Thomas and R. Thomas, “Dynamics of the interaction between water and the amino acids alanine, arginine, asparagine and glutamine using LED, QTAIM, AIMD and core-valence bifurcation (CVB) index,” J Mol Liq, vol. 408, p. 125404, Aug. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MOLLIQ.2024.125404

• Ashok, F. Thomas, R. Thomas, Understanding the hydrogen bonding preferences and dynamics of prontosil in water and methanol, Chem. Phys. Impact. 8 (2024) 100453. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CHPHI.2023.100453.

Seminars /Workshops Attended/Papers Presented/ Invited talks

Sl. No	Name of the Programme	Organized by	Venue	Date
1.	Curriculum/Syllabus Restructuring of PG CSS Programme 2019 (Chemistry)	Board of Studies, MG University	St. Thomas College Pala	17-19 Jan 2019
2.	One Day Orientation Programme for Internal Mentors of Walk With a Scholar Programme	The New Initiatives in Higher Education, Govt. of Kerala	Govt. College, Kottayam	08.10.2018
3.	National Webinar on Stereochemistry	Department of Chemistry, Sree Sankara Vidyapeetom College, Valayanchirangara, Perumbavoor, Ernakulam	Google Meet	21.05.2020
4.	Webinar on Raman Spectroscopy – Theory, Application and Future Prospects	Department of Chemistry, St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirapally	Google Meet	06/06/2020
5.	DBT WEBINAR SERIES on MATERIAL SCIENCE	Research and Post Graduate Department of Chemistry, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara	Google Meet	15-17 July 2020
6	International Weekly Webinar Series on ‘Instrumental Techniques in Chemistry’,	the Department of Chemistry, N.S.S. College, Manjeri, Kerala	Google Meet	18th July 2020 to 15th August 2020
7	webinar on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	Department of Chemistry, Malabar Christian College, Calicut	Google Meet	27th July 2020
8	International Webinar Series on Advanced Topics in Chemistry	Department of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Devagiri, Calicut	Google Meet	September 9th, 2020.
9	Webinar on “Photocatalytic Organic/Inorganic binary hybrids of Graphene “	Department of Chemistry, Union Christian College, Aluva	Google Meet	29 September, 2020.
10	National Conference on Emerging Trends in Material Science.	Department of Physics, St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirapally	St. Dominic’s College, Kanjirapally	06/06/2022 – 07/06/2022
11	National Workshop on NMR Spectroscopy	KSCSTE, MG University and NMR Society Kerala	Excalibur Ettumanoor	16/09/2022-18/09/2022

Programs Organized

• Organized a national webinar on “Raman Spectroscopy – Theory, application and its future aspects” on 06/06/2020

• Organized “Prof. Sony Chacko Memorial Lecture 2020” on 19/08/2020.

• Organized an “Online Quiz Competition as part of Ozone Day Celebration 2020” on 16/09/2020.

• Organizing Secretary for the 7 day DST-STUTI Training program on Chromatography, Spectroscopy and Microscopy during 28/11/2022 to 04/12/2022.

• Organised National Workshop on Density Functional Theory on 15/02/2023 – 17/02/2023

Positions held or holding

SI.No.	Details
1.	STOPP (2019-2020)
2	Website and Office Automation (2021 onwards)
3	Continuous Evaluation and Internal Examination Committee (2021 0nwards)
4	Planning Committee Member (2021 0nwards)
5	Career Guidance and Placement Cell Member (2021-2022)
6	Human Resource Development Cell Member (2022-2023)
7	Parent Teachers Association Executive Member (2023)