Dr. Sagayaraj Pappu

Identify, resear4ch and gather information pertaining to various research funding agencies and potential research opportunities.

Advise and assist researchers (especially those in early career) with funding applications to various research funding agencies including government and industries.

Preparing and managing of high quality project deliverable, including presentation, establishing and maintaining connections with professional colleagues.

Undertaking financial management of projects and responsible for client relationships and management of staff and sub consultants.

Facilitation of collaborative research among researchers, funding agencies and collaborating agencies/ industries and tracking progress.

Identify, design and conduct hands on training to assist and improve research grant application preparation and writing.

Periodically meet the researchers ans advise them an fiscal management strategies and long term project goals.

Preparation and analysis of statistical reports on research funding at the institution.

The grievances of the student community have been carefully

studied and appropriate actions were taken.

Instrumental in establishing the Centennial Physics Ph.D.

Instrumentation Centre, Centennial Physics Ph.D. Auditorium and Astrophysics Lab funded by Loyola College Society and other funding agencies like UGC, DST and LC-TOI

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Instrumental in improving the overall research capabilities of

the depsrtment by establishing new research laboratories for

solar cell and energy storage devices, and created facilities like electrochemical workstation, TG-DTA, FT-IR, UV-Visible

Spectrometer and High Temperature Furnaces

Coordination of the academic

activities of the department.

Monitoring the workload and

duties of teaching and non

teaching staff of the department.

Overall supervision of the

laboratory facilities of the

department. Coordination of the

Research program of the

department.

Supervision of summer training program and internship of the students .

Planning, administration and execution of the fund received from the institution and funding agencies

and budget preparation.

Contributed as the Team Leader in the planning, presentation and documentation in receiving the 175%Income Tax Exemption (section 35(1)(ii) of Income Tax Act) from

Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India for funding research activities at Loyola College.

Played a pivotal role in attaining the SIRO (Scientifically and Industrially Recognized Organization) award from DSIR, Govt. of India by actively involved in documentation and planning.

Co-ordinate the research activities of various schools/research groups.

Responsible for enrollment of Ph.D students and provide general guidance to research advisors and students.

Planning, administration and

execution of institutional research

funds.

Monitor and provide directions to the departments in Fiscal management research funds. Planning, Administration, Development and Coordination of externally funded Research Projects (agencies like UGC, SERB, DST, DBT etc.)

Maintain and develop the research infrastructure.

Acted as the Convener of Restructuring Committee and

successfully introduced Summer Internship Program,

Interdisciplinary courses, Self-study papers and Skill based

programs

Coordinated the UGC PG Grant, UGC BSR Grant, DBT Star

College Award and DST FIST Award in planning and

execution with fund over 3 Crores Rupees from various funding

Agencies

Coordinated Science Outreach Program for school students

in rural areas in and around Chennai and also organized

awareness program with the public participation in matters

pertaining to hygiene and energy management

Co-ordination of the academic programs of science departments.

Planning and execution of outreach

programs in science.

Team leader in curriculum development, course designing and restructuring of curriculum.

Counseling of students in matters related to academics and research.

Supervision of internship programs of students.

Enriching the campus life of students Monitoring the co-curricular activities of students.

Organization of cultural and social awareness programmes.

Organization of intercollegiate competitions Monitoring the welfare and well being of the students.

To design and execute social welfare schemes and award of scholarships.

Introduced Fr. Murphy South India football tournament.

Instrumental in winning the A.L.Muthaliyar Athletic

Championship and Madras University Championship

Award for providing maximum number of athlete for All India

Inter-University championship for four years (1999-2003) in

Succession.

Established scholarships for economically poor sportsmen

Selection, training and administrative support for the teams for the university and inter-university tournaments.

Organize inter collegiate tournaments in sports and games.

Planning and monitoring of budget or sports. Arrangements for sponsorships to conduct sports

and games.

Initiate fund raising to establish scholarships for sportsmen. Overall supervision of sports activities/sportsmen/coaches.

Maintenance and development of sports infrastructure.