Teaching: M. Sc and M. Phil. Courses

Research guidance: M. Phil. and Ph. D. students

Areas of interest:

Experimental Solid State Physics – Crystalline Materials –Electronic Instrumentation - Astrobiology

Selected Publications:

1. Godfrey Louis & A. Santhosh Kumar, Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala, Arxiv astro-ph/0310120, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310120 (2003).

2. Godfrey Louis & A. Santhosh Kumar, New biology of red rain extremophiles prove cometary panspermia, Arxiv astro-ph/0312639, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312639 (2003).

3. L. Godfrey and J. Philip, Phase Transitions in Lithium Ammonium Sulfate below room temperature: An Ultrasonic Study, Phys. Rev. B. Vol. 54, pp. 15708-713, (1996).

4. L. Godfrey and J. Philip, Ultrasonic measurement of the Elastic constants of LiKSO4 between 300 and 370 K, Solid State Commun., vol. 97, pp. 635-638, (1996).

5. Georgekutty Joseph, A Santhosh Kumar, Leesal Iype and Godfrey Louis, AC conductivity and dielectric studies of K3Na(SeO4)2 single crystal in the high temperature region, Indian Journal of Physics, Vol. 79, pp. 699-702, (2005).

Other information:

Currently working on the mysterious red rain phenomenon of Kerala. An invited talk was given on this subject in Astrobiology Conference at NORDITA (Copenhagen, Denmark) 8-10 January 2004. Further results are under consideration for publication in Journal.

Positions held as member of Academic Council and Senate of M. G. University

Vice President Academy of Physics Teachers, Kerala

Life member Acoustical Society of India