Dr. Jayakumar’s research laboratory at ACNSMM focuses on development of biodegradable polymeric nanofibers, nanogels, nanoparticles, nanocomposite scaffolds and injectable hydrogels for Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery, and Wound Dressing applications.

Dr. Jayakumar’s academic achievements include third rank in M. Sc. from Bharathidasan University, Senior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India (2001), University Postdoctoral Fellowship from Chonbuk National University (2002-2003), South Korea, and FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Portugal (2003-2005). Dr. Jayakumar was also awarded the prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. Dr. Jayakumar has over 240 Journal publications, 4 books, 12 book chapters, and 10 filed patents to his credit. His publications have been cited more than 14100 times with h-index-62. Dr. Jayakumar is also the recipient of several other awards like Best Paper Award from Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine (Springer) and IET Nanobiotechnology Journal, Faculty Researcher Award – 2016 from Indian Chitin and Chitosan Society (ICCS), India,the very prestigious MRSI Medal-2017 from Materials Research Society of India (MRSI, and the India Research Excellence-Citation Awards-2017 (Health & Medical Science area) from Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science. Dr. Jayakumar is a reviewer and editorial board member of many international journals. Dr. Jayakumar has completed more than 17 funded projects and is currently involved with 4 ongoing projects. He has active collaborations with many research groups in USA, Japan, South Korea, Portugal, and Taiwan.