​I am interested in heterogeneous catalysis more particularly in the synthesis of novel porous materials and its application towards various industrially important reactions such as MTO, WGS and PROX reactions.

• ​Structure, Electronic Structure, Optical, and Dehydrogenation Catalytic Study of (Zn1−zInz) (O1−xNx) Solid Solution,  M. Mapa, K. Sivaranjani, D. S. Bhange, B. Saha, P. Chakraborty, A. K. Viswanath and C. S. Gopinath, Chemistry of Materials, 22, 565, (2010).
• Porosity driven photocatalytic activity of wormhole mesoporous TiO2-xNx in direct sunlight, K. Sivaranjani and C. S. Gopinath, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 2639 , (2011).
• Molecular oxygen-assisted oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with nanocrystalline Ti1-xVxO2, K. Sivaranjani, A. Verma and C. S. Gopinath, Green Chemistry, 14, 461, (2012).
• Toward a Quantitative Correlation between Microstructure and DSSC Efficiency: A Case Study of TiO2-xNx Nanoparticles in a Disordered Mesoporous Framewok, K. Sivaranjani, S. Agarkar, S. B. Ogale and C. S. Gopinath, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 2581, (2012).
• γ-Al2-xMxO3±y (M = Ti4+ through Ga3+): Potential Pseudo-3D Mesoporous Material with Tunable Acidity and Electronic Structure, T. Mathew, K. Sivaranjani, E. S. Gnanakumar, Y. Yamada,T. Kobayashi, and C. S. Gopinath, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, 13484, (2012).
• Mesoporous TiO2-xNx + Nano Au: An Electronically Integrated Nanocomposite for Solar H2 Generation, K. Sivaranjani, S. Rajambal, K. Roy, C. S. Gopinath, Chem Cat chem, 6, 522, (2014).
• Gold modified RGO-mesoporous TiO2 composite: High performance visible light active catalyst for H2 generation, P.Bharad, K. Sivaranjani and C. S Gopinath, Nanoscale, 7, 11206-11215, (2015).
• Facile Synthesis of Thermally Stable Mesoporous Titania Spheres with Excellent Photocatalytic Activity, Su Bin Park, K. Sivaranjani, H. J. Na, Z. Li, Y-J. Choi, Y-J. Yang, and Ji Man Kim, Chem Lett, 44, 61-63 , (2015)
• Synthesis of alkali promoted mesoporous, nanocrystalline Pd/TiO2 catalyst for water gas shift reaction, Chengbin Li, K. Sivaranjani, Ji Man Kim, Catal. Today, 2015.
  

• ​Ph.D., Heterogeneous Catalysis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, 411008
• M.Sc, Chemistry, The American college, Tamilnadu, India.
• B.Sc., Chemistry, Fatima college, Tamilnadu, India.

• ​Postdoctoral Fellow, KCC, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Current
• Postdoctoral Fellow, AMPMC, KAUST, 2015-2017
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Sungyunkwan university, suwon, South Korea. 2014-2015
• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. 2013-2014

• ​Society for Materials Chemistry

• ​Junior and Senior Research Fellowship (2008-2013): Awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engg. (GATE) with 98.6 percentile in 2008.
• Best Research Scholar of the year Award in Catalysis, at National Chemical Lab., Pune in 2012.
• Best Poster award in CRSI Zonal meeting, NCL, India in 2011

• ​Kaust Catalysis Center (KCC)
• Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)