Dr. K Girish Kumar received his Bachelor and Post Graduate degree in Chemistry from University of Kerala in 1982 and 1984 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry from University of Kerala in1989. He started his career in 1989 as Lecturer in the Dept. of Chemistry, Gandhigram Rural Institute Tamil Nadu and in 1998 became Reader in Chemistry. In 1999 he joined the Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology as Reader in Analytical Chemistry. In 2006 he became Professor of Analytical Chemistry and in 2018 he became Senior Professor. He has served as Head of the Department of Applied Chemistry during 2007-2010 and 2016-2020 (rotation).He has been placed as Senior Professor with effect from 2018. Presently serving as Dean, Faculty of Science, CUSAT [From June 2019 onwards]. He has been the Director of Internal Quality Assurance Cell of CUSAT since 2017. He is serving as Chairman, Board of Studies in Chemistry, CUSAT and Former Member, Senate, CUSAT .He is also a Member, of Academic Council, Chairman of Faculty of Science, and Member of Research Advisory Committee, CUSAT. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Chemistry, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. He has research collaboration with Dept. of Biosensors in Food, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, POLAND. He has been conferred with the One-Time Research Grant of the UGC in 2014. He has over 32 years of teaching experience and has been actively involved in research for the last 35 years. The book authored by Dr. K. Girish Kumar “Plastic Kathayum Karyavum” published by NBS, Kerala depicts the story of plastic for the layman. Not restricting his activities to the scientific community, Dr. Girish Kumar has also published articles for the layman on various environmental and health aspects of chemicals used in daily life. He was the chief coordinator of Guinness World Record Breaking Event “Largest Practical Science Lesson” held at IIT Delhi on December 7. 2015. He has served /serving in different academic committees of a number of institutions. He is serving as NAAC peer team member.
His research interests include Development of optical/fluorescent sensors, Fabrication of electrochemical sensors for determination of metal ions, pharmaceuticals, biologically active molecules and food additives, Spectrophotometric methods for pharmaceuticals, Trace analysis of metals, Ion removal studies, Electrode modification using carbon nanotubes, conducting polymers, metal nanoparticles and self- assembled monolayers and Fabrication of Biosensors.His name has appeared in ADScientific index of ranking of world scientists. He has published 129 research publications in Indian and international journals in addition to over 200 presentations in different seminars/conferences and supervised and supervised 26 Ph.Ds and 4 students completed Post-Doctoral Programme under him. Presently 8 students are doing Ph.D and 3 students are doing Post-Doctoral Research under him. He has undertaken many research projects from various agencies like UGC, CSIR, DRDO, KSCSTE and DST.
Thirty two years of teaching experience in Analytical Chemistry at post-graduate level at Gandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu (1989 - 1999), India and at Cochin University of Science and Technology (1999 onwards), India. Visiting Professor at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman (Fall Semester – Sept. - 05 to Dec. - 05) Thirty five years of research experience in Analytical Chemistry. Served as Head, Department of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology [(2007-2010) and (2016 - 2020) (rotation)]

• Development of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) based electrochemical sensors for the determination of clinically important compounds.
• Development of aptamer/DNA immobilized optical and electrochemical sensors for biomolecules.
• Development of immunosensors for biomarkers.
• Development of nanomaterials, Schiff bases, calix arenes, crown ethers, metalloporphyrins, conducting polymers and self-assembled mono layers (SAM) based voltammetric sensors for biomolecules, pharmaceuticals and food additives.
• Development of nanomaterials based optical sensors for biomarkers.

Book Chapter
• Girish Kumar Krishnapillai, Sanu K Anand, Manna Rachel Mathew, Electro-oxidation in the development of voltammetric sensors for clinically important compounds, Electro-oxidation Principles, Materials and Applications, Nova Science Publishers, New York, (2020).

Research articles (Latest 10)

• Sonia Sam, Sanu K Anand, Manna Rachel Mathew, Krishnapillai Girish Kumar, Tannic Acid Capped Copper Nanoclusters as a Cost Effective Fluorescence Probe for Hemoglobin Determination, Anal. Sci., 2020 (in press).

• Swathy Mukundan, Jorge N Beltramini, Girish K Kumar, Devika Sudha Ravindran, Surface Engineering of Carbon Supported CoMoS- An Effective Nanocatalyst for Selective Deoxygenation of Lignin Derived Phenolics to Arenes, Appl Catal A-Gen, 606, 117811 (2020)

• Shalini Menon, Manna Rachel Mathew, Sonia Sam, K. Keerthi, K. Girish Kumar, Recent advances and challenges in electrochemical biosensors for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, J. Electroanal. Chemistry, 878, 114596 (2020) (Review Article)

• Sanu K. Anand, Manna Rachel Mathew, Jerzy radecki, Hanna Radecka, K. Girish Kumar, Individual and Simultaneous Determination of Norepinephrine and Tyramine Based on poly(L-arginine)/Reduced Graphene oxide composite modified glassy carbon electrode, J. Electroanal. Chemistry, 878, 114531 (2020)

• Unni Sivasankaran, Lena Reinke, Sanu K. Anand, Kamila Malecka, K. Girish Kumar, Hanna Radecka, Stefan Kubik, Jerzy Radecki, Ultrasensitive Electrochemical Sensing of Posphate in Water Mediated by a Dipicolylamine-Zinc(II) Complex, Sens. Actuator B-Chem., 321, 128474 (2020)

• Sunny P Orathel, Ronnie Thomas, N. Chandramohanakumar, Joy Job Kulavelil, Krishnapillai Girish Kumar, Vadayath Usha Menon, P. Jayaprakash, Sajitha Krishnan, P.S. Manju, Shaiju Param, M. G. Rajamanickam, U.G Unnikrishnan, Joe Thomas, and Ponnu Jose, Possible Effects of Perchlorate Contamination of Drinking Water on Thyroid Health, J. Thyroid Res., 5208657 (2020)

• Manna Rachel Mathew, Sanu K. Anand, Jerzy Radecki, Hanna Radecka, K. Girish Kumar, Simple and Cost-effective “Turn-on” Fluorescence Sensor for the Determination of Xanthine, J. Fluoresc., 30, 695 (2020)

• Manna Rachel Mathew, K. Girish Kumar, Poly(Amino Hydroxy Naphthalene Sulphonic Acid) Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode: An Effective Sensing Platform for the Simultaneous Determination of Xanthine and Hypoxantine, J.Electrochem. Soc., 167, 047519 (2020)

• Kamila Malecka, Shalini Menon, Gopal Palla, Krishnapillai Girish Kumar, Mathias Daniels, Wim Dehaen, Hanna Radecka and Jerzy Radecki, Redox Active Monolayers Self-Assembled on Gold Electrodes- Effect of Their Structures on Electrochemical Parameters and DNA Sensing Ability, Molecules, 25, 607 (2020)

• Sanu K. Anand, Manna Rachel Mathew, K. Girish Kumar, A Simple and Cost Effective Turn off Fluorescence Sensor for Biliverdin and Bilirubin Based on L-Cysteine Modulated Copper Nanoclusters, J. Fluoresc., 30, 63 (2020)

• Hot Article Award from Analytical Sciences (Japan Society of Analytical Chemistry) (2017).
• Chief Coordinator, Guinness World Record Breaking Event “Largest Biology Lesson” held at Anna University, Chennai organized in connection with India International Science Festival, October 14, 2017.
• A Cover Article in Analytical Methods (Royal Society of Chemistry) (2016)
• Chief Coordinator, Guinness World Record Breaking Event “Largest Practical Science Lesson” held at IIT Delhi organized in connection with India International Science Festival, December 7. 2015.
• UGC ONETIME RESEARCH GRANT (2014)
• Member, Governing body & General body, Vigyan Prasar- An Autonomous organisation under Department of Science & Technology,Govt. of India
• Member, National steering committee –Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India
• Member, Executive Committee, Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development, M G University, Kottayam, Kerala
• Member, Board of Studies , Alagappa University,Karaikkudi, Tamil Nadu
• Member, Board of Studies in Chemistry, Gandhigram Rural University, TamilNadu, India

• Fundamentals of analytical chemistry
• Evaluation of analytical data
• Classical methods of analysis
• Separation techniques
• Thermal methods of analysis
• Spectrophotometric analysis
• Electro analytical techniques
• Fluorescence spectroscopy

• “Development of sensors for compounds important for clinical analysis and food safety” (Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India- Indo-Polish S&T Programme – 2017-2019)
• “Development of fluorescent sensors for pharmaceutical and clinical analysis”. (Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment – 2016-2019)
• UGC ONETIME RESEARCH GRANT (2014)
• “Development of Electrochemical Sensors for Food Analysis” (Defence Research and Development Organisation, Govt. of India –2011-2014)
• “Development of Novel Macrocyclics based Electrochemical Sensors for Metals” (Kerala State Council for Science,Technology and Environment – 2010-2013)
• “Development of Electrochemical Sensors for the Determination of Pharmaceuticals” (Defence Research and Development Organisation, Govt. of India – 2006-2009)
• “Fabrication of Biosensors for the determination of pharmaceuticals” (Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India- Indo-Polish S&T Programme– 2006-2008 )
• “Development of Ion Selective Electrodes for the determination of Metal Ions” (Defence Research and Development Organisation, Govt. of India – 2003-2007)
• “Synthesis of Novel Polymeric Complexes – A search for new Membrane Electrode and Ion Exchange Materials” (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India - 1999-2002)
• “Development of Extractive Spectrophotometric Methods for Determination of Lanthanides at Trace Level” (University Grants Commission, Govt. of India – 1996-1998)
• “Methods for the Quality Control of Certain Drugs Using Dibromodimethyl Hydantoin” (University Grants Commission, Govt. of India – 1991-1993)