Chaitanya G K

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Monday, October 19, 2026

Professional Experience: 

1. Oct 2026 – Present: Assistant Professor, NITK Surathkal.
2. Apr 2023 – Oct 2026: INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, ISI Bangalore.
3. Jul 2021 – Apr 2023: NBHM Postdoctoral Fellow, ISI Bangalore.
4. Oct 2020 – Jun 2021: Visiting Scientist, ISI Bangalore.
5. Sep 2020: Ad-hoc Faculty, NIT Calicut.
6. Aug 2014 – May 2015: Full Time Guest Faculty, Mangalore University.
Contact Details

E-mail: 

gkc[at]nitk.edu.in
cberbalaje[at]gmail.com

Mobile: 

+91 9740767444

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ycmx_acAAAAJ&hl=en
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4482-2810

Scopus Author ID: 

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57217043357

Research Gate: 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chaitanya-Gopalakrishna

MathSciNet: 

https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/author?authorId=1378258
Academic Background
  •  Ph.D. (Mathematics), NITK Surathkal, 2021.
  •  M.Sc. (Mathematics), Mangalore University, 2014.
  •  B.Sc., SDM College Ujire, Mangalore University, 2012.
Areas of Interest
  • Dynamical Systems
  • Functional Equations
  • Fixed Point Theory
Achievements
(a) Research Fellowships:
(6) INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, DST, India, 2022.
(5) NBHM Postdoctoral Fellowship, DAE, India, 2020.
(4) Visiting Scientist under the J. C. Bose Fellowship of Prof. B. V. Rajarama Bhat, ISI Bangalore, 2020.
(3) Institute Fellowship, NITK Surathkal, India (July 2015–June 2020), awarded for pursuing doctoral research in the Department of MACS.
(2) Summer Research Fellowship of JNCASR Bangalore, 2013 and 2014.
(1) Summer Research Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, 2011.
 
(b) Awards, Medals and Academic Distinctions:
(7) ISFE Medal, 61st International Symposium on Functional Equations, Cluj Napoca, Romania, 2025.
(6) Selected for 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum and their travel grant, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, Germany, 2025.
(5) P. K. Jain Award, Indian Mathematical Society, 2025.
(4) V. M. Shah Prize, 85th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, 2019.
(3) Best Paper Award, 34th Annual Conference of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, 2019.
(2) Second rank in M.Sc Mathematics, Mangalore University, 2014.
(1) Qualified in Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET)-2013.
 
(c) Travel Grants:
(9) ISDE Financial Support for ICDEA 2025 and ICDEA 2026, International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE), 2025 and 2026.
(8) ICM 2026 Travel Support Program Grant, Simons Foundation, USA, and International Mathematical Union (IMU), Germany, 2025.
(7) ISAAC Travel Grant, International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC), 2025.
(6) Foreign Travel Grant, CSIR, India, 2024 (not availed) and 2025.
(5) Travel Grant from International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, 2024.
(4) International Travel Grant, NBHM, India, 2023 (not availed) and 2024.
(3) International Travel Grant, SERB, India, 2023.
(2) Chebyshev Grants, Organizing Committee of ICM 2022, and International Mathematical Union (IMU), Germany.
(1) TEQIP Travel Grant, NITK Surathkal, India, 2019.
 
(d) Grants for Research Visits and Collaborations:
(5) NAWA PROM – Short-Term Academic Exchange Programme grant, National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) and University of Rzeszów, Poland, 2026.
(4) NAWA PROM – Short-Term Academic Exchange Programme grant, National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) and University of Zielona Gora, Poland, 2025.
(3) IMU-CDC Abel Visiting Scholar Program Grant, International Mathematical Union (IMU), Germany, 2024.
(2) Research collaboration grant, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2023.
(1) IMU-CDC Individual Travel Support Program Grant, International Mathematical Union (IMU), Germany, 2023.
Significant Publications
(6) Chaitanya Gopalakrishna and Weinian Zhang, Polynomial-like iterative equation on Riesz spaces, Positivity, 28, 55 (2024), pp. 1–17. DOI
(5) Chaitanya Gopalakrishna, Murugan Veerapazham and Weinian Zhang, Dynamics of iteration operators on self-maps of locally compact Hausdorff spaces, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 44(3) (2024), 749–768. DOI
(4) B. V. Rajarama Bhat and Chaitanya Gopalakrishna, Iterative roots of multifunctions, Fundamenta Mathematicae, 265 (2024), 141–163. DOI
(3) B. V. Rajarama Bhat and Chaitanya Gopalakrishna, The non-iterates are dense in the space of continuous self-maps, Nonlinearity, 36(6) (2023), 3419–3430. DOI
(2) B. V. Rajarama Bhat and Chaitanya Gopalakrishna, Iterative square roots of functions, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems, 43(7) (2023), 2201–2227. DOI
(1) Murugan Veerapazham, Chaitanya Gopalakrishna and Weinian Zhang, Dynamics of the iteration operator on the space of continuous self-maps, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 147(1) (2021), 217–229. DOI
 

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