Area of Expertise : Contamination Control Engineer & Facility Manager at Prof.MGK Menon Lab for Space Sciences. Expertised in Design of Ultra Clean rooms & Qualification of Materials and Processes for Space Applications. Also working in the field of Thermal Control for HESP & Fabry Pero set up and HVAC for ITOFF. Setting up & operating Contamination Monitoring Facilities & Environmental Test Facilities for Space Payloads like UVIT on board Astrosat, VELC (ADITYA-L1), Micro Star Sense & LUCI. Lead for Integration & Facilities for Star Tracker Unit (STU) project. Selected Publicatins (s)

1. Contamination control of UVITS. Kathiravan, S. N. Tandon, B. Raghavendra Prasad, S. Sriram, A. Pradeep, T. Vishnu, P. K. Mahesh, P. U. Kamath, S. Nagabhushana & Amit Kumar
2. Study of Temperature and Humidity Variation at Various Locations in an Archive Room with Ambient Values-Preliminary Results. S.Kathiravan, Suresha and P.K. Mahesh Poster presented at International Archives Week
3. Astronomical site survey report on dust measurement, wind profile, optical turbulence,and their correlation with seeing over IAOShantikumar S. Ningombam · S. Kathiravan ·P. S. Parihar · E. J. L. Larson · Sharika Mohanan · Dorje Angchuk · Sonam Jorphel · K. E. Rangarajan ·K. Prabhu
4. Hanle echelle spectrograph: design and performanceS. Sriram, Amit Kumar, Arun Surya, T. Sivarani, Sunetra Giridhar, S. Kathiravan, et all..
5. Scatter due to Ultraviolet (UV) photopolymerization of molecular contamination on optical surfacesVenkata Suresh Narra · Raghavendra Prasad Budihal · Pawan Kumar Somasundaram· Kathiravan Sriraman · Natarajan Venkatasubramanian ·Umesh Kamath Padavu · Vishnu Tulasi Mani · Suresha Basavaraja · Rajesh Naik
6. Development of a stabilized Fabry-Perot based wavelength calibrator for precision Doppler spectroscopyTanya Das, Ravinder K. Banyal, S. Kathiravan, T. Sivarani, Ravindra B
7. In orbit performance of UVIT over the 5 years S. K. Ghosh, P. Joseph, A. Kumar, J. Postma, C. S. Stalin, A. Subramaniam, S. N. Tandon, I.V. Barve, A. Devaraj, K. George,V. Girish, J. B. Hutchings, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan , J.P.Lancelot , D.Leahy , P.K. Mahesh , R.Mohan , S.Nagabhushana , A.K.Pa
8. Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. III. Assembly and ground calibration of Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI)Joice Mathew · B. G. Nair · S. Sriram · Mayuresh Sarpotdar · Ajin Prakash · S. Ambily · Nirmal K. · A.G. Sreejith · Margarita Safonova · Jayant Murthy · P.U. Kamath · S. Kathiravan · B. R. Prasad · Noah Brosch · Norbert Kappelmann · Rahul Narayan
9. Additional Calibration of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope on board AstroSatS.N. Tandon, J. Postma, P. Joseph, A. Devaraj, A Subramaniam, I. V. Barve, K. George, S. K. Ghosh, V. Girish, J. B. Hutchings, P. U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, A. Kumar, J. P. Lancelot, D. Leahy, P.K. Mahesh, R. Mohan, S. Nagabhushana, A. K. Pati, N. Kameswar
10. Band-limited integrated scatter measurements on super polished optical mirrorsSuresh Venkata, Raghavendra Prasad Budihal, Natarajan Venkatasubramanian, Umesh Kamath Padavu, Kathiravan Sriraman
11. Visible Emission Line Coronagraph on Aditya-L1B. Raghavendra Prasad,, Dipankar Banerjee , Jagdev Singh , S. Nagabhushana , Amit Kumar , P. U. Kamath , S. Kathiravan , Suresh Venkata , N. Rajkumar , V. Natarajan , Madhur Juneja , Pawan Somu , Vaibhav Pant , Nigar Shaji , K. Sankarsubra
12. In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultra-Violet Imaging TelescopeS.N. Tandon, Annapurni Subramaniam, V. Girish, J. Postma, K. Sankarasubramanian, S. Sriram, C.S. Stalin, C. Mondal, S. Sahu P. Joseph, J. Hutchings, S.K. Ghosh, I.V. Barve, K. George, P.U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, A. Kumar, J.P. Lancelot, D. Leahy, P.K. Mah
13. In-orbit Performance of UVIT on ASTROSATAnnapurni Subramaniam, Shyam N. Tandon, John Hutchings, Swarna K. Ghosh, Koshy George, V. Girish, P.U. Kamath, S. Kathiravan, Amit Kumar, J. Paul Lancelot, P.K. Mahesh, Rekhesh Mohan, Jayant Murthy, S. Nagabhushana, Ashok K. Pati, Joe Postma, N. Kameswara
14. Tests and calibration on ultra violet imaging telescope (UVIT)Amit Kumar, S. K. Ghosh, P. U. Kamath, Joe Postma, S. Kathiravan, P. K. Mahesh, S. Nagbhushana, K. H. Navalgund, N. Rajkumar, M. N. Rao, K. S. Sarma, S. Sriram, C. S. Stalin, S. N. Tandon
15. Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSATKumar, Amit, Ghosh, S., Kamath, P., Postma, Joe, Kathiravan, S., et al.
16. Proposed visible emission line space solar coronagraphJagdev Singh, B. Raghavendra Prasad, P. Venkatakrishnan, K. Sankarasubramanian, Dipankar Banerjee, Raja Bayanna, Shibu Mathew, Jayant Murthy, Prasad Subramaniam, R. Ramesh, S. Kathiravan, S. Nagabhushana, P. K. Mahesh, P. K. Manoharan, Wahab Uddin