About Us

The SATHI-CISCoM centre, supported through the DST-SATHI program, is a consortium of 18 partner institutes with the intention of catering to in-situ and correlative microscopy of a variety of samples across different length scales. IIT Hyderabad Cluster has been awarded a Rs. 60 crores grant by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI) scheme. It is one of the 3 clusters that have been selected under this SATHI scheme call of 2023.

The IIT Hyderabad centre, called the Centre for In-Situ and Correlative Microscopy (SATHI-CISCoM), will serve as the cornerstone for cutting-edge characterisation. The centre would be the first of its kind to enable real-time characterisation across multiple length scales for fundamental and industrial R&D purposes. This initiative aims to bring together scientists from a broad range of scientific disciplines, including physical sciences, chemistry, biology, and pharmaceutical studies, to address common scientific goals that can only be addressed by using such sophisticated microscopy techniques. 

Led by Prof BS Murty, Director, IIT Hyderabad and a team of researchers from IIT Hyderabad with Dr Sai Rama Krishna Malladi as the Principal Investigator, the SATHI-CISCoM facility is supported by 17 academic, research, and industrial organizations to the tune of 20 Cr, namely, University of Hyderabad (UoH), Telangana State Council for Higher Education, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, National Institute of Technology Raipur, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sri Vishnu Educational Society Hyderabad, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT Hyderabad), LV Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad, Dr. Reddy’s Labs Hyderabad, Bharat Biotech Hyderabad, Amara Raja Group Tirupati, TATA Steel.

Partners: IIT Hydearabad (Host Institute)

Project Implementation Group

Core Team (Host Institute)

• Dr. Sai Rama Krishna Malladi (PI)

• Dr. Shourya Dutta Gupta (Co-PI)

• Prof. Ranjith R. (Co-PI)

• Dr. Mayur Vaidya (Co-PI)

• Dr. Subha Narayan Rath (Co-PI)

Representatives from Partner Organisations

• University of Hyderabad: Prof. Ghanashyam Krishna

• Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB): Dr. Sonal Nagarkar-Jaiswal

• International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI): Dr. R. Vijay

• CSIR-IICT: Dr. Rajkumar Bannerjee

• Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology: Dr. A. Kiran Kumar

• Sri Vishnu Educational Society: Dr. VVS Rajendra Prasad

• VNIT Nagpur: -TBD-

• NIT Raipur: Dr. Prabhat Diwan

• NIT Warangal: -TBD-

• TGCHE: -TBD-

• LVP Eye Institute: Dr. Prashant Garg 

• Amara Raja Batteries: Dr. D. Ebenezer

• Dr. Reddy's Labs: Dr. Amuthan Ramar

• Bharat Biotech: Dr. Brunda Ganneru

• TATA Steel: -TBD-