• Professor and Director - Manipal Institute of Applied Physics
• Coordinator - Centre for Applied Physics
• Project Director- ANRF-PAIR Project

Photonics and Biophotonics, Surface Engineering, Optical and optothermal tweezers, Spectroscopy

1) “SELF-MOISTURIZING CONTACT LENS AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF” (Date of filing: 12 February 2022 and Application number: 202241007514) Inventors: Sajan Daniel George and Aravind M

2)  "A METHOD FOR PRODUCING OLEOPHILIC, SUPERHYDROPHOBIC, AND SUPERHEMOPHOBIC ARTICLES, AND USES THEREOF" (Date of filing: 01st  April 2022 and Application number:  202241019987) Inventors: Sajan Daniel George, Swithin Hanosh

3)  "A METHOD FOR FABRICATING PLASMONIC WETTABILITY CONTRAST DROPLET ASSAY PLATFORM, AND USES THEREOF" (Date of filing: 30 May 2022 and Application Number: 202241030933). Inventors: Sajan Daniel George, Vineet P 

4) "A UNIVERSAL METHOD FOR CREATING A NON-ADHESIVE COATING, AND USES THEREOF" (Date of filing: 13 August 2022 and Application Number: 202241046266) Inventors: Sajan Daniel George, Aravind M, and Alina Peethan

5) "A Cost-Effective Method of Substrate Fabrication for Ultra-Trace Elemental Detection, And Uses Thereof" (Date of filing: 10 November 2022 and Application Number: 20224106430) Inventors: Unnikrishnan V. K,  Keerthi. K and Sajan Daniel George

6) "System for Optical Printing of Metal Patterns Using a Projection Assembly and Method Thereof" (Date of filing: 20 Novemeber 2023 and Application Number: 202341078711) Inventors: Sajan Daniel George, Bharat Bannur, Monisha K

Our work on the Self-Moisturizing Contact Lens is covered by international and national media

• https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=58916
• https://www.optometrytimes.com/view/researchers-test-3d-printed-self-moisturizing-contact-lens
• https://d3dprinter.com/news/manipal-institute-of-higher-education-india-fabrication-of-microchannel-embedded-self-moisturizing-contact-lenses-based-on-p%CE%BCsl-3d-printing-technology/
• https://thenfapost.com/2022/05/23/manipal-academy-of-higher-education-develops-3d-printed-self-moisturising-contact-lens/
• http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=150898&sid=1
• https://mangalorecity.in/researchers-from-mahe-develop-self-moisturising-contact-lens-using-3d-printing-technology-check-out/
• https://thenfapost.com/2022/05/23/manipal-academy-of-higher-education-develops-3d-printed-self-moisturising-contact-lens/
• https://thecanarapost.com/2022/05/18/researchers-from-mahe-report-development-of-3d-printed-self-moisturizing-contact-lens/
• https://www.3d-grenzenlos.de/magazin/forschung/selbst-befeuchtende-kontaktlinsen-aus-3d-drucker-27865183/                             

Work on Superhydrophobic Surfaces is covered by:

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/mahe-researchers-fabricate-new-class-of-superhydrophobicity/articleshow/65679123.cms
• https://megamedianews.com/index.php/195421/mahe-researchers-discover-technique-of-making-water-repelling-surface/

• 2025-Professor and Founding Director-Manipal Institute of Applied Physics,
• MAHE 2022-2025-Professor and Head-Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics,
• MAHE 2018-2022 - Professor Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics,
• MAHE 2012-2018-Associate Professor - Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics,
• MAHE 2009-2012 - Scientist, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany,
• 2007-2009 - Scientist, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany,
• 2006-2007- Assistant Professor, Center for Laser Spectroscopy, MAHE,
• 2004-2005- KU Leuven Postdoctoral Fellow, Katholikek Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium

Awards and recognition:

Fellow-Institute of Physics, UK,

Fellow-Royal Society of Chemistry UK,

Fellow-Indian Chemical Society,

Editorial Advisory Board member - Engineering Physics of AIP,

Editor- Scientific Reports, Nature