Name                : Dr. V. Bena Jothy
Qualification    : M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D

Dr. V. Bena Jothy has served in the Department of Physics for 27 years out of which, she has got taught PG students for 14 years. She has passed the State Level Screening Test conducted by the University of Madras in 1990. Presently, she is a research guide of the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli guiding 8 research scholars and co-guiding 3 research scholars. Nine research scholars have completed their research under her guidance. Her area of research specialization is spectroscopy. She has guided 9 M.Phil scholars and is presently guiding 1 scholars. She has published 60 papers in International referred Journals. She has presented 56 papers in International conferences and 134 papers in National conferences. She has attended 13 International and 47 National conferences. She has organized 5 International and 22 National conferences. Moreover she has served as a resource person in 2 international conferences, 2 national conferences and 2 training programs. She has actively served in various committees inside and outside our college. She served as the Sessional Committee Member of the Physical Science Section in the 99th Indian Science Congress Association. At present she is the Life Member of the Indian Science Congress Association, Kanyakumari Academy of Arts and Sciences and All India Association for Christian Higher Education. She is also a committee member of the International Association for Promotion of Christian Higher Education, Swadeshi Science Movement and Chemical Science Transactions. She has been awarded the Best Poster Award in the 98th Indian Science congress held at SRM University, Chennai from January 3- 7, 2011. Adding feather to her cap, she has also been awarded the ′Academic Achievers Award′ by the Kanyakumari Acadamy of Arts and Science in the year 2011. She has served as the referee to the journals like Analyst (Impact factor 4.23), Material Sciences and Applications, Spectrochimica Acta (Impact factor 2.098),Journal of Molecular Structures(Impact factor 1.602) and Chemical Physics Letters(Impact factor 1.860). She has edited proceeding of Exploring the Frontiers of Vibrational Spectroscopy (EXFOVIS – 2011) with ISBN number 13:978-81-908538-8-0 and Exploring the plethora of Research, Research Forum, women's Christian College, Nagercoil with ISBN : 978-93-528848-2-7.